Destruction Quotes

1562 Destruction quotes by 1091 unique authors

Terrorism isn't a crime against people or property. It's a crime against our minds, using the death of innocents and destruction of property to make… — Bruce Schneier
How simple-minded of the Germans to imagine that we British could be cowed by the destruction of our ancient monuments! As though any havoc of… — Osbert Sitwell
That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In… — Erich Fromm
All Kings, and all their favorites, All glory of honors, beauties, wits, The sun itself, which makes times, as they pass, Is elder by a… — John Donne
The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a… — Norman O. Brown
But also philosophy is not about perceptible substances they, you see, are prone to destruction. — Aristotle
Speaking of the murder of the younger Hanan, and other eminent nobles and hierarchs, Josephus says, "I cannot but think that it was because God… — Frederic Farrar
I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I… — John Donne
Our prevailing system of management has destroyed our people. People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-respect, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning. The forces… — W. Edwards Deming
THE ART OF PEACE does not rely on weapons or brute force to succeed; instead, we put ourselves in tune with the universe, maintain peace… — Morihei Ueshiba
Never, never tell jokes about a man with easy access to weapons of mass destruction. — Peter Chernin
Genocide has two phases: one, destruction of the national pattern of the oppressed group; the other, the imposition of the national pattern of the oppressor.… — Raphael Lemkin
By genocide we mean the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group. — Raphael Lemkin
It is intended to signify a coordinated plan of different actions aiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with… — Raphael Lemkin
It is comforting that travel should have an architecture, and that it is possible to contribute a few stones to it, although the traveller is… — Claudio Magris
At another location, we found barrels of chemical material that was intended for use as biochemical weapons. Everyone talks about there being no weapons of… — Chris Kyle
The world has been gradually reducing its nuclear arsenals. Testing must stop so that progress on the destruction of nuclear weapons may begin. — Jenny Shipley
Terrorists have already attacked our Nation once. There is every reason to believe that they will try again - possibly with a weapon of mass… — Mike Fitzpatrick
It must be so,-Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread and… — Joseph Addison
Liberals should not overplay this weapons of mass destruction card, because you want me to tell you the truth? Most of us are not going… — Dennis Miller
. . . nothing could be more grotesquely unjust than a code of morals, reinforced by laws, which relieves men from responsibility for irregular sexual… — Suzanne La Follette
We shall begin by launching the most spectacular peace movement on record. There will be electrifying overtures and unheard of concessions. The capitalist countries, stupid… — Unknown Author
The banding together by the nations of the world against Israel is the guarantee that their time of destruction is near and the final redemption… — Meir Kahane
If it costs ten years, and ten to recover the general prosperity, the destruction of the South is worth so much. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In Sherman's famous march through Georgia, his soldiers left a swath of death and destruction, destroying crops, burning homes and killing civilians. Sherman himself acknowledged… — John Pugsley

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