Destruction Quotes

1562 Destruction quotes by 1091 unique authors

Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product. — Lewis Mumford
Only one thing can conquer war-that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation... — Ludwig von Mises
When we fill our souls up with creativity, artistry and intelligence ...we have a better chance at avoiding the behavior that leads to destruction. — Unknown Author
They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their people. — Thomas Jefferson
A garden is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg , and his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is only one tactical principle which is not subject to change. It is to use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount… — George S. Patton
The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii, like the metamorphosis… — Marcel Proust
Hunger is actually the worst weapon of mass destruction. It claims millions of victims each year. — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
Peace is not just the absence of mass destruction, but a positive internal and external condition in which people are free so that they can… — Petra Kelly
The worst thing that will probably happen-in fact is already well underway-is not energy depletion, economic collapse, conventional war, or the expansion of totalitarian governments.… — E. O. Wilson
The best indicator of a sociopath serial bully is not a clinical diagnosis but the trail of devastation and destruction of lives and livelihoods surrounding… — Tim Field
Years of misguided teaching have resulted in the destruction of the best in our society, in our cultures and in the environment. — Cesar Chavez
The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal. — Walter Lippmann
No loss by flood and lightning, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble… — Helen Keller
This movement is not about the destruction of law, but the construction of law. — Julian Assange
All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale. — Thomas Carlyle
At the time of Caliph Omar's invasion of Egypt, the Arab officer on duty in the destruction of the library of Alexandria used two stamps… — Nils Kjaer
Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another. — Annie Besant
We would fight not for the political future of a distant city [Danzig], rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and… — Neville Chamberlain
Instead of building newer and larger weapons of mass destruction, I think mankind should try to get more use out of the ones we have. — Jack Handey
The future of mankind is going to be decided within the next two generations, and there are two absolute requisites: We must aim at a… — Jacques Monod
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know-and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it… — Isaac Asimov
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction. — Simone Weil
Great self-destruction follows upon unfounded fear. — Ursula K. Le Guin
Hate would destroy him who hated. — Louis L'Amour

Who Wrote These Destruction Quotes

1,091 authors contributed a total of 1,562 Destruction Quotes, led by these top contributors: