Destruction Quotes

• All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Thought
  • Kill
  • Essence

• The fate of the world for the next Islamic year, if bin Laden has his way, will include the nuclear destruction of the United States

  

  Paul Williams The Temptations
  • World
  • Fate
  • United States

• The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Die
  • Politics
  • Politician

• Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Money
  • Building
  • Destruction

• Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • First
  • Creation
  • Destruction

• There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days. Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction. People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger. And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.

  

  Alan Paton
  • People
  • Home
  • Death

• The only way in which one can make endurable man's inhumanity to man, and man's destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man's humanity to man and man's reverence for the place in which he lives.

  

  Alan Paton
  • Environment
  • Humanity
  • Place

• Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction.

  

  Owen D. Young
  • Human
  • Emotions
  • Destruction

• It's a lot of stuff. People ask us what kind of model are we following. There is no model. We're creating one. There's never been anything of this magnitude. ... We've got 9,000 square miles of destruction.

  

  Chuck Brown
  • People
  • Model
  • Stuff

• I have absolutely no doubt at all that we will find evidence of weapons of mass destruction programmes.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Evidence
  • Weapons
  • Programmes

• Words, like tranquil waters behind a dam, can become reckless and uncontrollable torrents of destruction when released without caution and wisdom.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Water
  • Caution
  • Reckless

• We have seen the extent of the desecration and destruction of the facilities of the finest institution in the country.

  

  Laisenia Qarase
  • Country
  • Institution
  • Desecration

• Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction of some 300,000 acres of wetlands. This amounted to 30 miles of marshlands.

  

  Mortimer Zuckerman
  • Results
  • Barriers
  • Erosion

• So much of the habitat destruction and pollution is based on the simple principle that we somehow have been given free license over other species to degrade the planet.

  

  Gregory Walter Graffin Bad Religion
  • Simple
  • Given
  • Pollution

• The day when the Jew was first admitted to civil rights, the Christian state was in danger...the entrance of the Jew into {White) society marked the destruction of the State, meaning by State, the Christian State.

  

  Bernard Lazare
  • Danger
  • Civil Rights
  • Christian State

• The discovery of nuclear chain reactions need not bring about the destruction of mankind any more than did the discovery of matches. We only must do everything in our power to safeguard against its abuse. Only a supranational organization, equipped with a sufficiently strong executive power, can protect us.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Mankind
  • Discovery
  • Nuclear

• I have long come to believe that, more than any other destruction, our word-recklessness is endangering the future of us all.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Future

• It is not science that has destroyed the world, despite all the gloomy forebodings of the earlier prophets. It is man who has destroyed man.

  

  Max Lerner
  • World
  • Men
  • Prophet

• There is something evocative about the idea of destruction. This act of destruction is the expression of an idea... that what we call reality is not real at all. When I draw a head, for example, I immediately feel an urge to destroy it, to erase it, because the drawing only captures an outward appearance, and for me the vital issue is what lies behind the visual form of the head.

  

  Antoni Tapies
  • Real
  • Reality
  • Lies

• 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.

  

  Ann Druyan
  • World
  • Science
  • Military

• The application of force alone, without support based on a spiritual concept, can never bring about the destruction of an idea or arrest the propagation of it, unless one is ready and able to ruthlessly to exterminate the last upholders of that idea even to a man, and also wipe out any tradition which it may tend to leave behind.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Force
  • Tradition
  • Propagation

• For me, it is as though at every moment the actual world had completely lost its actuality. As though there was nothing there; asthough there were no foundations for anything or as though it escaped us. Only one thing, however, is vividly present: the constant tearing of the veil of appearances; the constant destruction of everything in construction. Nothing holds together, everything falls apart.

  

  Eugene Ionesco
  • Foundations
  • Escaped
  • Tearing

• Love is more afraid of change than destruction.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Afraid
  • Love Is
  • Destruction

• Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Worry
  • Cloud
  • Rains

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