Top 100 Quotes About Destruction
#1. When one of us dies of cancer, loses her mind, or commits suicide, we must not blame her for her inability to survive an ongoing political mechanism bent on the destruction of that human being. Sanity remains defined simply by the ability to cope with insane conditions.
Ana Castillo
#2. Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.
Aesop
#3. A prolonged unforgiveness is a prolonged destruction mindset
Sunday Adelaja
#4. Our fate lies
in the hands
of the things we love
and sometimes
the things we love
are the things
that lead us
to the fatal destruction
of ourselves.
Robert M. Drake
#5. It is an unsufferable blasphemy to reject the public ministry or to say that people can become holy without sermons and Church. This involves a destruction of the Church and rebellion against ecclesiastical order; such upheavals must be warded off and punished like all other revolts.
Martin Luther
#6. A lack of knowledge always leads to defeat and destruction
Sunday Adelaja
#7. The situation in the United States is becoming more dire for average ordinary Americans and the last thing we need to do is to spend money on death, destruction and war.
Cynthia McKinney
#9. While envisaging the destruction of imperialism, it is necessary to identify its head, which is no other than the United States of America.
Che Guevara
#10. Man likes to make roads and to create, that is a fact beyond dispute. But why has he such a passionate love for destruction and chaos also?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#11. I believe in conversion of mankind, not its destruction.
Mahatma Gandhi
#12. There's a thin line between destruction and creation.
Oliver Jeffers
#13. Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.
David Mamet
#14. It is a bizarre world. It is an upside down, inside out, quantum physics world. It is the eve of destruction in America.
Glenn Beck
#15. No civilization has survived the ongoing destruction of its natural support systems. Nor will ours.
Lester R. Brown
#16. As a child walking over a slippery and dangerous path cries out, " Father, I am falling! " and has but a moment to catch his father's hand, so every believer sees hours when only the hand of Jesus comes between him and the abysses of destruction.
Theodore L. Cuyler
#17. Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction! Be heroes in an army of construction!
Helen Keller
#18. In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
Audre Lorde
#19. But it is easier to destroy than to create, and there are those whose nature it is to love destruction.
Lev Grossman
#20. I'm an experimental artist in a field that doesn't celebrate experimentation. It celebrates self-destruction, which I guess you could say is a creative endeavor.
Billy Corgan
#21. Anywhere where there are humans around is bound for destruction at some point in time, even paradise.
Jim Tan
#22. Einstein believed deeply that science should transcend national and ethnic divisions. But he watched physicists and chemists become the purveyors of weapons of mass destruction in the early 20th century.
Krista Tippett
#24. The news I bring is to say that, man being the only animal who hates himself, the likely fate of the world is total self-destruction.
Hanif Kureishi
#25. This is a labyrinth of wickedness and destruction and pleasure and, above all, love, because in the end it's all just one big, mind-bending love story, isn't it?
Ted Dekker
#26. 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.
Al Gore
#27. Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.
Marquis De Sade
#28. 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.
Queen Elizabeth II
#29. Repeatedly place your pet opinions and prejudices before God. He will surprise you by showing you that the best of them need refining and some the purification of destruction.
Charles Brent
#30. One who rushes madly after inordinate desire, runs the risk of encountering destruction and death.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#31. When you look at the homosexual agenda, I cannot support something that I believe brings nothing but self-destruction, not only physically but of their soul.
Ken Cuccinelli
#32. I've wrought my family's destruction. Killed those I loved most, with my very touch. My dark precipice has been reached. I throw back my head and roar as recognition takes hold. I am Death ...
Kresley Cole
#33. Part of the terrible irony of war is that it enlists the best in human nature for purposes of mutual destruction.
Lesslie Newbigin
#35. He stood lamely staring out at the grief-stricken crowd like he was watching a hurricane wreak havoc outside his window. He was powerless to stop the destruction but it was his burden to watch it transpire.
Sarah Noffke
#36. Pleasure and self destruction ... The perfect poison.
Patrick Marber
#37. Death, decay, entropy, and destruction are the true suspensions of God's laws; miracles are the early glimpses of restoration.
Philip Yancey
#38. I can't imagine anyone who doesn't think the world is safer without a tyrant who murdered his own people, used weapons of mass destruction against them and flouted the world for so many years.
Karen Hughes
#40. Love causes war and causes death, breaks souls and breaks lives. It runs people into the ground, makes them behave like moronic, immoral beasts, before it dances off, leaving only destruction in its wake - hearts blown wide open for the whole world to see.
Karina Halle
#41. Whether we like it or not, one day science will take God from us! This will be especially a great destruction for the weak minds!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#42. I was twelve. I believed profoundly. During the day I studied the Talmud, and at night I ran to the synagogue to weep over the destruction of the Temple.
Elie Wiesel
#43. God puts Christ's enemies as a footstool beneath His feet, for their salvation as well as their destruction.
Origen
#44. One of the errors of the 2003 invasion of Iraq was the belief that regime change must be creative. The theory was that the destruction of a state and its ruling elite would bring freedom and justice.
Timothy Snyder
#45. The destruction of India's village system was the greatest of England's blunders.
Annie Besant
#46. A sausage is an image of rest, peace and tranquility in stark contrast to the destruction and chaos of everyday life.
Tom Robbins
#47. We wouldn't believe that the Germans, known as the enlightened world as 'bearers of culture,' were capable of planning and carrying out, in cold blood, without pity, the mass destruction of human beings by industrial means, as if they were bedbugs, flies, or other pests to be exterminated.
Joseph Bau
#48. True Boogie-Woogie I conceive as homogeneous in intention with mine in painting: destruction of melody, which is the equivalent of destruction of natural appearance, and construction through the continuous opposition of pure means - dynamic rhythm.
Piet Mondrian
#49. The vulnerability of precious things is beautiful because vulnerability is a mark of existence. The destruction of Troy. The fall of the petals from fruit trees in blossom. To know that what is most precious is not rooted in existence - that is beautiful.
Simone Weil
#50. Verily a man cannot serve two masters. And I consider the foundation or destruction of a religion far greater than the foundation or destruction of a state, let alone a party.
Adolf Hitler
#51. 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.
Lynne Sharon Schwartz
#52. Technology is characterized by constant change, rapid innovation, creative destruction, and revolutionary products.
Marsha Blackburn
#53. And we cried for the years we have lost to hate, bitterness and self-destruction.
Trish Kaye Lleone
#54. One's destruction is never a place, but rather a new way of seeing things. (Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymous Bosch)
Henry Miller
#55. Most of the damage suffered by the ocean up until now has been caused by local insults - overfishing, pollution, and destruction of habitats. If we tackle these problems now, we buy ourselves time to work on climate change.
Nancy Knowlton
#56. A great feat of engineering is an object of perpetual interest to people bent on self-destruction
Michael Chabon
#57. It isn't God, Matthew,I said. The destruction, losing Gary. It's humans alone that have the power to destroy. I don't know why God didn't plan it differently, but that's the way it is. Maybe he just has too much faith in us.
Anne C. Voorhoeve
#58. I did not want to die at all. Understand that. But I could not let everything be destroyed, when I had it in my power to stop the destruction.
Neil Gaiman
#59. The road of denial leads to the precipice of destruction
John Bunyan
#60. 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.
Edward Grey
#61. Zane hurried to catch up. "Wait, Ty, you want to do that with her with us?"
"She's a year old. She won't understand death and destruction for at least another year."
"If we ever decide to adopt, you're a mute in any interviews."
"Understood.
Abigail Roux
#62. Any outlaw regime that has ties to terrorist groups or seeks to possess weapons of mass destruction is a grave danger to the civilised world and will be confronted.
George W. Bush
#63. Anyone who considers using a weapon of mass destruction against the United States or its allies must first consider the consequences ... We would not specify in advance what our response would be, but it would be both overwhelming and devastating.
William J. Perry
#64. [Only by] the good influence of our conduct may we bring salvation in human affairs; or like a fatal comet we may bring destruction in our train.
Desiderius Erasmus
#65. The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war.
Lester B. Pearson
#66. We are no longer in the World of the Fourth Sun, but we are not yet in the World of the Fifth Sun. This is the time in-between, the time of transition. As we pass through transition there is a colossal, global convergence of environmental destruction, social chaos, war, and ongoing Earth Changes.
Carlos Barrios
#67. Shaking my head, I watched the cat run under the van and stare at us with black
eyes. I wasn't a cat person. They always seemed like they were secretly plotting
the destruction of the human race. And despite the cutesy name Zoe had given it,
this one struck me as slightly evil.
Erin Lynn
#68. In Hinduism, Shiva is a deity who represents transformation. Through destruction and restoration, Shiva reminds us that endings are beginnings, and that our world is constantly undergoing a cycle of birth, death and rebirth.
Karen Salmansohn
#69. Our arms must be mighty ... ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#70. In my worst moments, I try to think about loving instead of hating. Creation versus destruction, know what I'm sayin'?
Julia Stiles
#71. He who destroys another person to succeed in life will have destruction awaiting him at the post of his success.
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#72. Ciro, who loved machinery and its design, thought the tanks were ugly. What beauty could be found in something that was created with the sole purpose of destruction?
Adriana Trigiani
#73. Material abundance without character is the surest way to destruction.
Thomas Jefferson
#74. History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world have a chance for it.
Walter Bagehot
#75. There is a path one takes when moving toward destruction. Like someone who has
one drink on a Friday night, and two the next, only to gradually and completely lose
control
Nicholas Sparks
#76. Everything may evaporate at any instant. Everything!' I said with surprising vehemence. 'You, me, the most rocklike personality since Calving Coolidge; death, destruction, despair may strike. To live your life assuming otherwise is insanity.
Luke Rhinehart
#77. I find it impossible to subscribe to a philosophy that believes that the destruction of human life is a legitimate solution to a problem that is mostly social, economic and psychological, ... In reality, most women 'choose' abortion because they believe they have no other choice.
Patricia Heaton
#78. He found the original sheet of paper and scored the couplet out with thick lines. And in doing this there was a sense of achievement, of time not wasted, as though the destruction of much labour were in some way an act of creation.
George Orwell
#79. Americans were told repeatedly by President Bush and Vice President Cheney that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. None were ever found.
John Olver
#80. The inspections started in 1991, right after the Gulf War. One of the conditions for the ceasefire was that Iraq had to do away with all of its weapons of mass destruction - biological, chemical and nuclear weapons and long-range missiles.
Hans Blix
#81. I thought I could play the hellraiser and then put 'Johnny Vegas' back in his box. I found popularity through self-destruction. The more you damage yourself, the more people are drawn to you, and that can be quite addictive. It is not a lifestyle you can maintain.
Johnny Vegas
#83. In addition to tourism, it is essential to employ other ways to benefit more from the use of natural resources than from their destruction - from wildlife breeding operations to - yes - hunting of abundant species where viable.
David Jeremiah Barron
#84. I'm so glad I'm not 20 years old anymore. I was in a hurricane. I'm a lot calmer now. I don't cause destruction for myself and others everywhere I go.
Christina Ricci
#85. But Hezbollah now has reared its ugly head in a way that threatens the entire free world. And they want, by their own charter and definition, the destruction of Israel and Christians. That is the truth. That is in their charter.
Zach Wamp
#86. Political and social justice requires, not the disintegration of a country and destruction or humiliation of a class which shows initiative, intelligence and drive, but equality of opportunity for all, genuine freedom for self-fulfilment, in which all men irrespective of caste or creed may share.
Syama Prasad Mukherjee
#87. Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
Evelyn Waugh
#88. If, to him, love was a celebration of one's self and of existence - then, to the self-haters and life-haters, the pursuit of destruction was the only form and equivalent of love.
Ayn Rand
#89. It is said that men condemned to death are subject to sudden moments of elation; as if, like moths in the fire, their destruction were coincidental with attainment.
John Le Carre
#90. Mankind's self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order.
Jerry Mander
#91. I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.
Anthony Kiedis
#92. Never loan your heart to hatred; it pays you back with self-destruction. Majority of people living are not aware that anger is an acid that destroys its own container.
Israelmore Ayivor
#93. When we approach love and creativity with the level of conviction that the powers-that-be in the world today are approaching hatred and destruction, then and only then will we have a chance.
Marianne Williamson
#94. Libya is a good example of a country that has come to a realization that weapons of mass destruction threaten more than assure, and I hope that will be followed by others.
Mohamed ElBaradei
#95. 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.
Adyashanti
#96. After the near-total destruction of Dresden in the Allied fire-bombing of February 1945, few people believed that its beauty would ever return. Dresden's slow but steady comeback was thus met with great relief.
Gunter Blobel
#97. How immensely the world is simplified when tested for its worthiness of destruction. This is the great bond embracing and unifying all that exists.
Walter Benjamin
#98. A reduction in meat consumption is the most powerful single act that you can take to halt the destruction of our environment and preserve our natural resources.
John Robbins
#99. I think that you can disagree with people and debate over their positions with issues without engaging in the politics of personal destruction.
Hillary Clinton
#100. 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].
Ron Nielsen
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