Art Quote by Edward Young

Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane…

— George Bernard Shaw

“Thus is worked out, from maggots up to man, the universal law of the violent destruction of living beings. The whole earth, continually steeped…

— Joseph de Maistre

The punishment of death is the war of a nation against a citizen whose destruction it judges to be necessary or useful.

— Cesare Beccaria

“…The more enormous our wealth, the more extensive our fears, all our possessions are paled up with new edicts every day, and hung round…

— Oliver Goldsmith

There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.

— Anonymous

... Rebel against the flesh and bone, The word of the blood, the wily skin, And the maggot no man can slay.

— Dylan Thomas

“To the destruction of what is.”

— Joseph Conrad

“The Lord said: "Time [death] I am, the destroyer of the worlds, who has come to annihilate everyone. Even without your taking part all…

— Anonymous

“Destruction is necessary to recreate something or return it to its original form. Even the greatest creators, including God, must destroy while making something…

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history.

— Thomas Browne

“Word – An eternal power, In a wrong place at a wrong time, Inflicts more pain than a weapon”

— Samir Satam

“Why slay the slain? Such may be the question that will arise in the minds of many who see this book.”

— Moncure D. Conway