Destruction Quotes

1562 Destruction quotes by 1091 unique authors

Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively… — Christopher Dawson
Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings… — John Rawls
In contrast to the knowledge that keeps man in a passive quietude, Desire dis-quiets him and moves him to action. Born of Desire, action tends… — Alexandre Kojeve
The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the cause of the destruction multiplied… — Edward Gibbon
To the contrary, I believe the U.S. military has already done all that has been asked of them. Saddam Hussein is on trial. The threat… — Peter DeFazio
Consider as sin any minute of life spent on something other than saving souls for eternity from this world doomed to destruction. — Richard Wurmbrand
The sovereign state has in our times become a lethal danger to human civilization because technical developments enable it to employ an infinite number and… — Christian Lous Lange
Iraq is not the only nation in the world to possess weapons of mass destruction, but it is the only nation with a leader who… — Tom Daschle
And violence is impractical, because the old eye for an eye philosophy ends up leaving everybody blind .. It is immoral because it is a… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
We can either passively continue on the road to utter domestication and destruction or turn in the direction of joyful upheaval, passionate and feral embrace… — John Zerzan
The emotions of the ignorant man are continuously kept at a pitch by the most blood-curdling stories about Anarchism. Not a thing too outrageous to… — Emma Goldman
God puts Christ's enemies as a footstool beneath His feet, for their salvation as well as their destruction. — Origen
Through all the centuries of the worship of the mindless, whatever stagnation humanity chose to endure, whatever brutality to practice-it was only by the grace… — Ayn Rand
Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it-that no substitute can do… — Ayn Rand
There is unmistakable evidence that Saddam Hussein is working aggressively to develop nuclear weapons and will likely have nuclear weapons within the next five years.… — Jay Rockefeller
With the destruction of history, contemporary events themselves retreat into a remote and fabulous realm of unverifiable stories, uncheckable statistics, unlikely explanations and untenable reasoning. — Guy Debord
We have no reason to be discouraged and cast down if the religion we profess is not popular and few agree with us. We must… — J C Ryle
When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction. — Jonathan Davis
It [the Iraq invasion] was absolutely an error. It's obviously clear the evaluation of weapons of mass destruction proved not to be correct. That's absolutely… — Stephen Harper
Today’s world is traveling in some strange direction. You see that the world is going toward destruction and violence. And the specialty of violence is… — Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction. — Oliver Tambo
It is inherently dangerous to allow a country such as Iraq to retain weapons of mass destruction, particularly in light of its past aggressive behaviour.… — Stephen Harper
On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction. In our judgment, it was much more fundamental.… — Stephen Harper
Further, not only the United States, but the French, British, Germans and the United Nations all thought Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction before the… — Jim Gerlach
The death toll from small arms dwarfs that of all other weapons systems — and in most years greatly exceeds the toll of the atomic… — Kofi Annan

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