Annihilation Quotes

139 Annihilation quotes by 117 unique authors

What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy. — Horatio Nelson
But we have reason to think that the annihilation of work is no less a physical impossibility than its creation, that is, than perpetual motion. — Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet
Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger,… — Sun Tzu
Only one thing can conquer war-that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation... — Ludwig von Mises
Woe to the suicides! I believe that there can be none more miserable than they. Oh, there are some who remain proud and fierce even… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
It may well be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a state in this story where safety will be the… — Winston Churchill
The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding. — Winifred Holtby
Our national policies will not be revoked or modified, even for scientists. If the dismissal of Jewish scientists means the annihilation of contemporary German science,… — Adolf Hitler
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young, and I love life. But… — Bertrand Russell
Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it is an intolerable… — Charles Darwin
But the World being once fram'd, and the course of Nature establish'd, the Naturalist, (except in some few cases, where God, or Incorporeal Agents interpose),… — Robert Boyle
Nature abhors annihilation. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once we observe that destruction is so useful… — Marquis de Sade
It's the next annihilation of vast numbers of species. It is happening now, and we, the human race, are its cause — Richard Leakey
The annihilation of a woman's personality, individuality, will, character, is prerequisite to male sexuality. — Andrea Dworkin
I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of nuclear annihilation... I believe… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The satisfied, the happy, do not live; they fall asleep in habit, near neighbor to annihilation. — Miguel de Unamuno
Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to… — James Madison
For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once his life is… — Marquis de Sade
Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit… — Andrea Dworkin
If only nature is real and if, in nature, only desire and destruction are legitimate, then, in that all humanity does not suffice to assuage… — Albert Camus
For every one billion particles of antimatter there were one billion and one particles of matter. And when the mutual annihilation was complete, one billionth… — Albert Einstein
The foreign policy aim of ants can be summed up as follows: restless aggression, territorial conquest, and genocidal annihilation of neighboring colonies whenever possible. If… — Bert Holldobler
I like to play with things a while before annihilation. — Max von Sydow
My approach to violence is that if it's pertinent, if that's the kind of movie you're making, then it has a purposeI think there's a… — Guy Ritchie

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