Destruction Quotes

1562 Destruction quotes by 1091 unique authors

Terrorism is a word with little content - it is a label for brutalities committed by ‘the enemy’, and from which one’s own acts of… — David Livingstone
The destruction of Wonderland, is the destruction of me?! — Alice Liddell
In the beginning war looks and feels like love. But unlike love it gives nothing in return but an ever-deepening dependence, like all narcotics, on… — Chris Hedges
The enduring attraction of war is this: Even with its destruction and carnage it can give us what we long for in life. It can… — Chris Hedges
Anytime destruction of another is needed in order to advance one's own aims or goals, then the goals need to be reevaluated. — David White
To one degree or another we all struggle with selfishness. Since it is so common, why worry about selfishness anyway? Because selfishness is really self-destruction… — Neal A. Maxwell
Adam Smith's 'invisible hand' is not above sudden, disturbing, movements. Since its inception, capitalism has known slumps and recessions, bubble and froth; no one has… — Margaret Thatcher
Modern physics had shown that the rhythm of creation and destruction is not only manifest in the turn of the seasons and in the birth… — Fritjof Capra
No new creation or destruction of matter is within the reach of chemical agency. We might as well attempt to introduce a new planet into… — John Dalton
We cannot allow the natural passions and prejudices of other peoples to lead our country to destruction, — Charles Lindbergh
Iraq made commitments after the Gulf War to completely dismantle all weapons of mass destruction, and unfortunately, Iraq has not lived up to its agreement — Barbara Boxer
Now writing is just working your way toward the border that the innermost secret draws around itself, and to cross that line would mean self-destruction.… — Christa Wolf
The future does not belong to those who attack our Embassies and Consulates and kill our Ambassadors. The Angel of Death in the form of… — Allen West
I have already transmitted to Congress the report of the naval court of inquiry on the destruction of the battleship Maine in the harbor of… — William McKinley
It is already becoming clear that a chapter which had a Western beginning will have to have an Indian ending if it is not to… — Arnold J. Toynbee
Ridding Iraq of weapons of mass destruction. That was the whole idea, right? That‘s why we went. I am reluctant to let that fact disappear… — Rachel Maddow
It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction — Mikhail Gorbachev
Kali is the goddess of destruction, the Clawed Hands, the Blood Drinker... And that's one side of her, as it is for any god. If… — Martin Cruz Smith
There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein's regime is a serious danger, that he is a tyrant, and that his pursuit of lethal weapons of… — Edward Kennedy
Do not be confused by what the natural world knows: We are all, in our own way, completely and totally alone. If love is real,… — Joe Meno
We do not have thousands of years to unlearn the wrong patters that were established over thousands of years. The exponential speed-up of these cumulative… — Rosemary Radford Ruether
The complete destruction of traditional marriage and the nuclear family is the 'revolutionary or utopian' goal of feminism. — Kate Millett
Like every other destruction of optimism, whether in a whole civilisation or in a single individual, these must have been unspeakable catastrophes for those who… — David Deutsch
The world is a different place in this new century, [...]. And we are a different people. My visions still come but no one listens… — Joseph Boyden
The purposeful destruction of information is the essence of intelligent work. — Ray Kurzweil

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