Destruction Quote by John Boyd Orr

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes angry.

— Euripides

You don't have to be Sigmund Freud to surmise that war has a perverse appeal for the human race, nor is the attraction limited…

— Ellen Willis

“Seeds of destruction take root in the human heart, and even among those who long for peace, they call to our darker instincts and…

— Victoria Armour-Hileman

“War is a mind-set, and all action that comes out of such a mind-set will either strengthen the enemy, the perceived evil, or, if…

— Eckhart Tolle

In order for us human beings to commit ourselves personally to the inhumanity of war, we find it necessary first to dehumanize our opponents,…

— Jimmy Carter

War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

— Cardinal Richelieu

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal…

— George Orwell

“War is the most painful act of subjection to the laws of God that can be required of the human will.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“We are mad if we imagine that the God of love revealed in Jesus will bless us in waging war.”

— Brian Zahnd

“War -- is a last ditch moral nightmare. People begin worshiping a mysterious slouching beast, following after, bowing down, offering gifts, making much of…

— Daniel Berrigan

It was a time of madness, the sort of mad-hysteria that always presages war. There seems to be nothing left but war--when any population…

— Rebecca Latimer Felton

It is said that whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. In fact, whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they first…

— Terry Pratchett