Destruction Quotes

1562 Destruction quotes by 1091 unique authors

Somewhere somebody must have some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a descending… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
He looked beyond. He looked to the peoples of the Earth and saw the destruction of the family because of the lack of children. Paul… — Pope Francis
By my monastic life and vows I am saying no to all the concentration camps, the aerial bombardments, the staged political trials, the judicial murders,… — Thomas Merton
The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own Lures. We often give our enemies the means of our own… — Aesop
The anniversary of Hiroshima, should be a day of somber reflection, not only on the terrible events of that day in 1945, but also on… — Noam Chomsky
I will step outside the system. Voting for the “lesser evil”-or failing to vote at all-is part of the corporate agenda to crush what is… — Chris Hedges
So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real. — John F. Kerry
I do not believe that a world without evil, preferable in order to ours, is possible; otherwise it would have been preferred. It is necessary… — Gottfried Leibniz
Real change will only happen when we fall in love with our planet. Only love can show us how to live in harmony with nature… — Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Why has time disappeared in our culture? How is it that after decades of inventions and new technologies devoted to saving time and labor, the… — Jacob Needleman
All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow; acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in separation; births in… — Milarepa
Who can think without horror of what another widespread war would mean, waged as it would be with all the new weapons of mass destruction. — Unknown Author
In the seed and the soil, we find the answers to every one of the crises we face. The crises of violence and war. The… — Vandana Shiva
A long war almost always places nations in this sad alternative: that their defeat delivers them to destruction and their triumph to despotism. — Alexis de Tocqueville
Einstein believed deeply that science should transcend national and ethnic divisions. But he watched physicists and chemists become the purveyors of weapons of mass destruction… — Krista Tippett
The most evil creatures dont desire the destruction of everythingthey only desire to exploit it for themselves. — Orson Scott Card
It is time to stop personal destruction and prying into private lives — William J. Clinton
The intelligence community's 2002 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) stated, in a formal presentation to President Bush and to Congress, its view that Saddam had weapons… — Laurence Silberman
And by the influence of heat, light, and electrical powers, there is a constant series of changes [in animal and vegetal substances]; matter assumes new… — Humphry Davy
Today, I am an inquisitor. I shall not sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution. — Barbara Jordan
I hold that without truth and nonviolence there can be nothing but destruction of humanity. — Mahatma Gandhi
Dresden? There is not such a place any longer." "I want to point out, that besides Essen, we never actually considered any particular industrial sites… — Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
The source from which existing things derive their existence is also that to which they return at their destruction. — Anaximander
When I was younger, I did self-mutilate. I'd be upset, so I'd do it, & it would calm me down. It's a horrible way to… — Christina Ricci
I want to say, and this is very important: at the end we lucked out. It was luck that prevented nuclear war. We came that… — Robert McNamara

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