Destruction Quotes
Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true.
So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government; and so to resist force, employed for its destruction, by force, for its preservation.
Carl took on the military-industrial complex. He campaigned around the world for an end to the production of weapons of mass destruction. To him it was a perversion of science.
What will people say-in these words lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision of our minds. These four words hold sway everywhere.
The bloody solution of the crisis, the effort for the destruction of the enemy's forces, is the first-born son of war.
At the time of the pralaya (universal destruction) the oceans are to exceed their limits and seek to change, but a saintly man never changes.
The Olivet Discourse is not about the Second Coming of Christ. It is a prophecy of the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70.
We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed all our trust in a cold, impartial intellect which only brings us nearer to destruction.
Until every individual feels personally responsible for the careful planning and the preservation of natural resources, the inexorable destruction will go on.
Governments do not know what they cannot do until after they cease to be governments. Each government carries the seeds of its own destruction.
. . . the sin of abortion, or the destruction of unborn children - lies somewhere a close kin to the crime of destroying human life and certainly to be condemned.
It is merely a metaphor to call competition competitive war, or simply, war. The function of battle is destruction; of competition, construction.
There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth.
When the Dodgers left, it was not only a loss of a team, it was the disruption of a social pattern. A total destruction of a culture.
If terrorists succeeded in using a weapon of mass destruction against the U.S. or one of our allies, it would likely have catastrophic consequences for our cherished republican form of government.
War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.
Postmodernity is the simultaneity of the destruction of earlier values and their reconstruction. It is renovation within ruination.
God puts Christ's enemies as a footstool beneath His feet, for their salvation as well as their destruction.
My prayer is that God give me no longer life than I shall be glad to use mine office in edification, and not in destruction.
.., by universal custom, your enemy is never more polite than when he is planning or has planned your destruction.
Man at his best is a system-breaker, an iconoclast seeking not only variety, but destruction.
All reduction of people to objects, all imposition of labels and patterns to which they must conform, all segregation can lead only to destruction.
The britishh seizure of Hong Kong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the britishh Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium.
We are here simply to decide whether Congress should take the taxpayer dollars of millions of pro-life Americans and use them to fund the destruction of human embryos for research.
Moreover, in the experimental sciences, the scientific fraternity must test a new theory to destruction, if possible.
The fear of criticism is at the bottom of the destruction of most ideas which never reach the planning and action stage.
Puppet Papademos is in place, and as Athens caught fire on Sunday night he rather took my breath away - he said violence and destruction have no place in a democratic country.
The destruction of the inducement to invest by an excessive liquidity-preference was the outstanding evil, the prime impediment to the growth of wealth, in the ancient and medieval worlds.
One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line.
Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God's Word.
The destruction of our environment and resources cannot be stemmed unless the growth of the world's population is stemmed and ultimately reduced.
I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins.
I'm thinking maybe letting the latches burn is the right idea. Let everything burn until there's nothing left but ashes and cool rain.
Whatever is destroyed, the act of destruction does not vary much. Beauty if vapour from the pit of death.
When the ego dominates in organizations, even spiritual organizations, there is usually a big drama or upheaval of some kind, and self-destruction begins.
On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction.
The paraphrase of Gödel's Theorem says that for any record player, there are records which it cannot play because they will cause its indirect self-destruction.
The right of an individual to refuse to kill, to torture, or to participate in the preparation for the nuclear destruction of humanity seems to me to be fundamental.
At a time when unbridled greed, malignant aggression, and existence of weapons of mass destruction threatens the survival of humanity, we should seriously consider any avenue that offers some hope.
A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.
There is little doubt that Iran is on a mission to rebuild its nuclear weapons and use that capability to wreak havoc and destruction on Israel and others throughout the world.
Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.