Destruction Quotes

1562 Destruction quotes by 1091 unique authors

I photographed the entire thing in color because to photograph it in black and white would be to keep it as a tragedy. Because there… — Joel Meyerowitz
Humanity cannot afford to acknowledge all of the blood that it spills and the destruction it inflicts on the world in its effort to perpetuate… — Jeremy Rifkin
To be well used, creatures and places must be used sympathetically, just as they must be known sympathetically to be well known...The "animal scientist" to… — Wendell Berry
History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and… — Walter Bagehot
The calculated killing of a human being by the state involves, by its very nature, an absolute denial of the executed person's humanity. The most… — William J. Brennan
Silence is the deadliest weapon of mass destruction. — Cynthia McKinney
The perennial gale of creative destruction — Joseph A. Schumpeter
Human society cannot basically stop the destruction of the environment under capitalism. Socialism is the only structure that makes it possible. — Gus Hall
Adopting a central organizing principle means embarking on an all-out effort to use every policy and program, every law and institution, to halt the destruction… — Al Gore
We are close to a time when all of humankind will envision a global agenda that encompasses a kind of Global Marshall Plan to address… — Al Gore
Failing to warn the citizens of a looming weapon of mass destruction- and that's what global warming is- in order to protect oil company profits,… — Bill Maher
It is easier to silence scientific dissent by utilizing the politics of personal destruction, than to actually debate them on the merits of their arguments.… — Mike Thompson
Human use of fossil fuels is altering the chemistry of the atmosphere; oceans are polluted and depleted of fish; 80 per cent of Earth's forests… — David Suzuki
During the time I was in office we have seen the beginning of the elimination of the fire season completely and are having fires all… — Arnold Schwarzenegger
To bring about destruction by overcrowding, mass starvation, anarchy, the destruction of our most cherished values, there is no need to do anything. We need… — Isaac Asimov
The true gardener then brushes over the ground with slow and gentle hand, to liberate a space for breath round some favorites; but he is… — Freya Stark
Salvation and justice are not to be found in revolution, but in evolution through concord. Violence has ever achieved only destruction, not construction; the kindling… — Pope Pius XII
Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation. . . . Let… — Bernard Baruch
Christianity could not content itself with building up its own altar; it was absolutely forced to undertake the destruction of the heathen altars. Only from… — Adolf Hitler
Family and work. Family and work. I can let them be at war, with guilt as their nuclear weapon and mutually assured destruction as their… — Ellen Gilchrist
You may dazzle the mind with a thousand brilliant discoveries of natural science; you may open new worlds of knowledge which were never dreamed of… — Rose Philippine Duchesne
Shiva... is the only hunter that will ever catch the wild swan; The prey she will take last is the wild white swan of the… — Robinson Jeffers
What will people say-in these words lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision of our minds.… — Berthold Auerbach
Fairness is an efficiency parameter if we look at the whole global civilization. It is not an efficient way of meeting human needs if one… — Karl-Henrik Robert
. . . Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

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