Destruction Quotes

• Sustainable farms are to today's headlong rush toward global destruction what the monasteries were to the Dark Ages: places to preserve human skills and crafts until some semblance of common sense and common purpose returns to the public mind.

  

  Gene Logsdon
  • Mind
  • Common
  • Semblance

• If the blood of France and of Germany flows again, as it did twenty-five years ago, in a longer and even more murderous war, each of the two peoples will fight with confidence in its own victory, but the most certain victors will be the forces of destruction and barbarism.

  

  Edouard Daladier
  • War
  • Fighting
  • Military

• Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Death
  • Worst
  • Decay

• I am opposed to both cloning and the destruction of human embryos and adamantly opposed to funding of embryonic stem cell research.

  

  Sandy Adams
  • Cells
  • Stem
  • Cloning

• We all live under the constant threat of our own annihilation. Only by the most outrageous violation of ourselves have we achieved our capacity to live in relative adjustment to a civilization apparently driven to its own destruction.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Live
  • Civilization
  • Driven

• We can not have equilibrium in this world with the current inequality and destruction of Mother Earth. Capitalism is what is causing this problem and it needs to end.

  

  Evo Morales
  • World
  • Mother
  • Earth

• Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves. All human destiny is this dilemma. This dilemma, destruction or salvation, no fate proposes more inexorably than love. Love is life, if it is not death. Cradle; coffin, too. The same sentiment says yes and no in the human heart. Of all the things God has made, the human heart is the one that sheds most light, and alas! most night.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Love
  • Destiny

• War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. It degrades and stupefies with the sense that you are not responsible, that 'tis not yours to think and reason why, but to do and die,' like the hundred thousand others doomed like yourself. War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.

  

  Alexander Berkman
  • Why
  • War
  • True

• The advent of interconnectedness and of weapons of mass destruction means that, increasingly, I share a destiny with my enemy.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Enemy
  • Destiny
  • Weapons

• A large animal needs a large area. If you protect that area, you're also protecting thousands of other plants and animals. You're saving all these species that future generations will want - you're saving the world for your children and your children's children. . . . The destruction of species is final. If you lose a species, you lose the genes, you lose all the potential drugs and potential foods that could be useful to the next generations. The ecosystems will not function as they have.

  

  George Schaller
  • Children
  • Animal
  • Generations

• We all know that love is truly the key. Anyone who tries to make anyone think that things of destruction has anything to do with God or Allah, they're a liar.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • God
  • Know
  • Liar

• We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction.

  

  Lester B. Pearson
  • Economic
  • Destruction
  • Scale

• Jainism has two ways of looking at things: one called Dravyarthekaraya and the other Paryayartheka Noya. According to the Dravyarthekaraya view the universe is without beginning and end, but according to the Paryayartheka view we have creation and destruction at every moment.

  

  Virchand Gandhi
  • Moments
  • Creation
  • Jainism

• I believe in conversion of mankind, not its destruction.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Destruction
  • I Believe In
  • Conversion

• an off-screen persona of Globally Conscious Earth Mother and an aggressive on-screen embodiment of Kali, Goddess of Destruction.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Mother
  • Earth
  • Conscious

• I think things that contribute to the destruction of our free-incentive system are wrong. A trend against that free-incentive system is wrong, and should only be temporarily engaged in, in the event that war or something of that kind requires it. Otherwise, it should be reduced.

  

  George M. Humphrey
  • Thinking
  • War
  • Kind

• Tis safter to be that which we destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Joy
  • Destruction
  • Doubtful

• Our common goal is to ensure that Iraq should not have weapons of mass destruction, ... It must be attained on the basis of the U.N. Security Council's resolution No. 1441. All other goals go beyond the limits of our interests.

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • Goal
  • Goals
  • Limits

• But also philosophy is not about perceptible substances they, you see, are prone to destruction.

  

  Aristotle
  • Philosophy
  • Prone
  • Substances

• if i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Death
  • Interest
  • Public

• Any society which suppresses the heritage of its conquered minorities, prevents their history or denies them their symbols, has sown the seeds of their own destruction.

  

  William Wallace
  • Heritage
  • Deny
  • Minorities

• The destruction of Wonderland, is the destruction of me?!

  

  Alice Liddell
  • Destruction
  • Wonderland

• B.O.Y. means ‘Beware of You’… Be aware of your power. We have the choice to live positively or in our own destruction.

  

  Hayley Williams Paramore
  • Power
  • Choice
  • Means

• The Olivet Discourse is not about the Second Coming of Christ. It is a prophecy of the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70.

  

  David Chilton
  • Destruction
  • Jerusalem
  • Prophecy

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