Annihilation Quotes

139 quotes by 117 authors

What do we mean by the defeat of the enemy? Simply the destruction of his forces, whether by death, injury, or any other means-either completely… — Carl von Clausewitz
Believing that the power to destroy belongs to the Creator alone I affirm... that any theory which, when carried out, demands the annihilation of force,… — James Prescott Joule
Land degradation did not start with chemical agriculture. But chemical agriculture offered new tools for annihilation. — Joel Salatin
Many people believe that the current system must inevitably end in total annihilation. They reject, sometimes very emotionally, any attempts to analyze this notion. — Herman Kahn
How dare the smooth talkers, the clever official blabbers, open their mouths and boast of progress. . . . Here they hold jubilant peace conferences… — Max Nordau
[The South] is ****ed for its virtues and praised for its faults, and there are those who wish its annihilation. But most revealing of all… — Richard M. Weaver
Unless our fundamental sacred connectedness with every being and thing is experienced deeply and enacted everywhere, religious, political, and other differences will go on creating… — Andrew Harvey
The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe... All is registered in the 'boundless heart' of the bodhisattva. Through our deepest and innermost… — Joanna Macy
NIRVANA- In the Buddhist religion, a state of pleasurable annihilation awarded to the wise, particularly to those wise enough to understand it. — Ambrose Bierce
He went to bed early, but could not fall asleep. He was haunted by sad and gloomy reflections about the inevitable end- death. These thoughts… — Ivan Turgenev
Every subatomic interaction consists of the annihilation of the original particles and the creation of new subatomic particles. The subatomic world is a continual dance… — Gary Zukav
Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred million years --and I have suffered more… — Mark Twain
Non-thinking is an act of annihilation, a wish to negate existence, an attempt to wipe out reality. But existence exists; reality is not to be… — Ayn Rand
Mark you, if you give up spirituality, leaving it aside to go after the materializing civilization of the West, the result will be that in… — Swami Vivekananda
Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self. — Anton Chekhov
What men fear is not that death is annihilation but that it is not. — Epicurus
Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter. — Bernard M. Oliver
It is individuals who must be encouraged to undertake the unprecedented - and unprecedentedly profitable - effort to prevent the annihilation of the human race. — L. Neil Smith
The existing system will be quickest and most radically overthrown by the annihilation of its exponents. Therefore, massacres of the enemies of the people must… — Johann Most
I wonder if those people shown protesting the deployment of nuclear weapons to western Europe during the Reagan era are feeling appropriately stupid today. 'Please… — Craig Reucassel

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