Destruction Of Power Quotes

#1. What quantities evil - the amount of blood spilled the body count, the intentional destruction of innocent masses? Regardless of how evil is defined, there will always be those in power to discriminately judge it and their corrupt policing forces that enforce it. - Author: Mahima Martel

#2. The vast majority of beings who incarnate on this planet are at the stage of their evolution where power is the dominant theme. They are learning about power. That is why we live in a world where there are so many wars and so much destruction. - Author: Frederick Lenz

#3. All powers have two sides, the power to create and the power to destroy. We must recognize them both, but invest our gifts on the side of creation. - Author: Robin Wall Kimmerer

#4. The reduction of nuclear arsenals and the removal of the threat of worldwide nuclear destruction is a measure, in my judgment, ofthe power and strength of a great nation. - Author: Jimmy Carter

#5. Don't underestimate the power of a guilty mind. Never underestimate self-shame and self-destruction. - Author: Tim Hawken

#6. It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction. - Author: E.T.A. Hoffmann

#7. An idea can destroy the mind of a human being, twist it into a dark path of destruction and illness. But only the human can destroy the mind with a bullet to the soul. Ideas do not kill people; they ruin them. People kill people. - Author: Ingrid

#8. I ... must continue to strive for more knowledge and more power, though the new knowledge always contradicts the old and the new power is the destruction of the fools who misuse it. - Author: George Bernard Shaw

#9. I am the rightful ruler of this world And now that I, too, have awakened, like my dragons, I have come to take back what is mine. - Author: Nenia Campbell

#10. Let us seek Death, or he not found, supply With our own hands his office on ourselves; Why stand we longer shivering under fears, That show no end but death, and have the power, Of many ways to die the shortest choosing, Destruction with destruction to destroy. - Author: John Milton

#11. The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist, therefore, the concentration of power, we are resisting the processes of death, because concentration of power is what always precedes the destruction of human liberties. - Author: Woodrow Wilson

#12. Cromwell saw that the destruction of these men would not only ruin Ormonde's military power, but spread a helpful terror throughout the island. He therefore resolved upon a deed of "frightfulness" deeply embarrassing to his nineteenth-century admirers and apologists. Having - Author: Winston S. Churchill

#13. Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction. The businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is fear. - Author: Ayn Rand

#14. Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of expression is dead dogma, its physical form brute force. - Author: Rudolf Rocker

#15. The beauty of sand, in other words, belonged to death. it was the beauty of death that ran through the magnificence of its ruins and its great power of destruction - Author: Kobo Abe

#16. Saddam Hussein has been tenacious in his pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and, unless he is removed from power, he will eventually harm our nation and our allies. Every moment we delay allows him to grow stronger. - Author: Richard Shelby

#17. You're born with the power of love, why you are looking for power of destruction? - Author: Debasish Mridha

#18. I still believe that man, not having been given the power of creation, does not posses the right of destroying the meanest creature that lives. The perogative of destruction belongs solely to the Creator of all that lives. - Author: Mahatma Gandhi

#19. McMahon predicted that "total power in the hands of total evil will equal destruction." The - Author: Eric Schlosser

#20. Historically speaking, the Christian religion is nothing but a Jewish sect ... After the destruction of Judaism, the extinction of Christian slave morals must follow logically ... Ah, the God of the deserts, that crazed, stupid, vengeful Asiatic despot with his power to make laws! - Author: Adolf Hitler

#21. That is why we live in a world where there are so many wars and so much destruction. This is an arena of power. - Author: Frederick Lenz

#22. There was silence. Then as if to refresh the power of destruction, the wind rose and the waves rose and through the house there lifted itself a sullen wave of doom which curled and crashed and the whole earth seemed ruining and washing away in water. - Author: Virginia Woolf

#23. Now you see what kind of creatures we are, Hugh. Eating things alive. That's what we do. How can you have much respect for mankind, or any belief in the social struggle? - Author: Malcolm Lowry

#24. 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. - Author: Abraham Lincoln

#25. If they are really persuaded that the army is annually established by me, that I have the sole disposal of posts and honours, that I employ this power in the destruction of liberty and the diminution of commerce, let me awaken them from their delusion. - Author: Robert Walpole

#26. Though the cross of Christ has been beautified by the poet and the artist, the avid seeker after God is likely to find it the same savage implement of destruction it was in the days of old. The way of the cross is still the pain-wracked path to spiritual power and fruitfulness. - Author: Aiden Wilson Tozer

#27. The sinful nature of man is the same in every generation. Man naturally moves towards entropy. We are driven towards the carnal, mundane and the mediocre. We need a higher power, force and truth to deliver us from this entropic movement to self-destruction and pull us higher to greater values. - Author: Sunday Adelaja

#28. Marching thus at night, a battalion is doubly impressive. The silent monster is full of restrained power; resolute in its onward sweep, impervious to danger, it looks a menacing engine of destruction, steady to its goal, and certain of its mission. - Author: Patrick MacGill

#29. Of all the weapons of destruction that man could invent, the most terrible-and the most powerful-was the word. Daggers and spears left traces of blood; arrows could be seen at a distance. Poisons were detected in the end and avoided. But the word managed to destroy without leaving clues. - Author: Paulo Coelho

#30. Today the predatory state, or the predatory group of states, with power of total destruction, is no more to be tolerated than the predatory individual. - Author: Lester B. Pearson

#31. Extremists, who thrive on conflict; who do not tolerate diversity; who seek power through division and destruction. The global system they hope to create is one of new walls and new isolation, and radically smaller horizons. It is an anti-democratic, anti-economic-growth, and anti-progress agenda. - Author: Abdallah II

#32. The United States has no credible evidence that Iraq moved weapons of mass destruction into Syria early last year before the U.S.-led war that drove Saddam Hussein from power. - Author: Condoleezza Rice

#33. No man need go blindly to destruction, for God has given him guidance and power of seeing whither he goes. - Author: Sabine Baring-Gould

#34. Aphrodite just kept smiling.
Because she was just doing what a goddess does-the same way that a tornado rips houses apart or a fire burns down a forest. - Author: L.J.Smith

#35. The power of art is as powerful as weapons of mass destruction; it's just where war destroys, art inspires. But in order to inspire, you need to react to it. And, if it doesn't penetrate your mind, you can't react to it. - Author: Nicolas Winding Refn

#36. Nothing we can do outrages Nature directly. Our acts of destruction give her new vigour and feed her energy, but none of our wreckings can weaken her power. - Author: Marquis De Sade

#37. They've worked the absolute-power-corrupts-absolutely truth since the beginning of time. They foment destruction and chaos. It puts them in their happy place. - Author: Nina Bangs

#38. Religion looks forward to the destruction of the world ... Perhaps half aware that its unsupported arguments are not entirely persuasive, and perhaps uneasy about its own greedy accumulation of temporal power and wealth, religion has never ceased to proclaim the Apocalypse and the day of judgment. - Author: Christopher Hitchens

#39. We're on the eve of destruction. Men have lost all sense of honor. Power has become their faith instead of faith being their power. - Author: Atiq Rahimi

#40. We need to win by the power of love, not by the destruction of war. - Author: Debasish Mridha

#41. The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and from all modern wars in the utter ruthlessness with which it was fought. - Author: Winston Churchill

#42. He (Saddam Hussein) has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbours. - Author: Colin Powell

#43. Certain women because of their female power and seductiveness could bring destruction to a family. - Author: Margaret Way

#44. I remember a time when all I wanted was a gun and to learn how to use it. I thought a gun would make me feel safe. I thought a gun would make me feel powerful. But right now I just feel . . . heavy. Like I live in this world of death and destruction and I'll never escape alive. - Author: Paula Stokes

#45. The power of destruction which had once been the ultimate privilege of government was now the only power left in the world
and it was everywhere. - Author: H.G.Wells

#46. The best defence of peace is not power, but the removal of the causes of war, and international agreements which will put peace on a stronger foundation, than the terror of destruction. - Author: Lester B. Pearson

#47. Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction. - Author: Jules Verne

#48. You have the power within you to choose a life of love and beauty or choose a life of misery and destruction. What you chose, that you will attract and that you will manifest. - Author: Debasish Mridha

#49. Air forces offered the possibility of striking a the enemy's economic and moral centres without having first to achieve 'the destruction of the enemy's main forces on the battlefield'. Air-power might attain a direct end by indirect means - hopping over opposition instead of overthrowing it. - Author: B.H. Liddell Hart

#50. Great power which incites great envy, hurls some men to destruction; they are drowned in a long splendid stream of honors. - Author: Juvenal

#51. He [Christ] came to bring peace, to be sure, but the peace that He came to bring must be built upon the complete destruction of the power of darkness. - Author: Cornelius Van Til

#52. What is crucial to your survival as a race is not the redistribution of power and wealth within the prison but rather the destruction of the prison itself. - Author: Daniel Quinn

#53. Power is not divided equally ,differences in any form leads to destruction of every country ...
we came to lead we r being leaded
we came to earn we r being earned - Author: Palash

#54. Grace perennially waits for us to accept our destruction and, in that acceptance, to discover the power of the Resurrection and the Life. - Author: Robert Farrar Capon

#55. See here, if a simple act of kindness or generosity, such as buying a loaf of bread for some poor working women, can mean that wholesale death and destruction will be avoided why, a man would be a monster who had it in his power to alleviate all that suffering yet stood by and did nothing. - Author: Stephen R. Lawhead

#56. Our power does not know liberty or justice. It is established on the destruction of the individual will. - Author: Vladimir Lenin

#57. Science and industry have in less than fifty years developed man's power of destruction to an extent which makes comparison with the past futile. - Author: Frederick Maurice

#58. Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power. - Author: Al Gore

#59. This new power, which has proved itself to be such a terrifying weapon of destruction, is harnessed for the first time for the common good of our community. - Author: Queen Elizabeth II

#60. Nor can I throw a book away. I have given many away and ripped a few in half, but as with warring nations, destruction shows regard: the enemy is a power to reckon with. Throwing a book out shows contempt for an effort of the spirit. Not that I haven't tried. - Author: Lynne Sharon Schwartz

#61. Instead of a few hundreds of thousands of men meeting each other in war, millions would now meet, and modern weapons would multiply manifold the power of destruction. - Author: Edward Grey

#62. The population explosion is the primary force behind the remaining six groups of critical global events [diminishing land resources, diminishing water resources, the destruction of the atmosphere, the approaching energy crisis, social decline, and conflicts/increasing killing power]. - Author: Ron Nielsen

#63. But people who long to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many foolish desires and schemes that plunge them into ruin and destruction. For love of money is the root of all of evil and some having pursued its power, fall from faith and end in sorrow. - Author: Saint Timothy

#64. THE ART OF PEACE does not rely on weapons or brute force to succeed; instead, we put ourselves in tune with the universe, maintain peace in our own realms, nurture life, and prevent death and destruction. The true meaning of the term samurai is one who serves and adheres to the power of love. - Author: Morihei Ueshiba

#65. Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence. - Author: Thomas Jefferson

#66. Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight. - Author: Marilyn French

#67. True power comes from true love. Only destruction and torment can come from hatred. I release the pain within through constructive and artistic formats. Never will I endure the feeling of hatred and let it out upon the world again. For within true consciousness I am whole and one with the universe. - Author: Kenneth G. Ortiz

#68. Sink, suffer, self-destruct
Rise stronger, reconstruct - Author: Lamb Of God

#69. If everyone fights with the power of their love, there will be happiness, not the destruction or war. - Author: Debasish Mridha

#70. Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. When we think that we are automatically entitled to something, that is when we start walking all over others to get it. - Author: Criss Jami

#71. Embrace The Power of The Ring! Or embrace your own destruction! - Author: J.R.R. Tolkien

#72. Love is the ultimate power of destruction for all barriers. - Author: Debasish Mridha