Abhors Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nature abhors annihilation. [Lat., Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.]

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

In history the way of annihilation is invariably prepared by inward degeneration, by decrease of life. Only then can a shock from outside put…

— Jacob Burckhardt

If only nature is real and if, in nature, only desire and destruction are legitimate, then, in that all humanity does not suffice to…

— Albert Camus

Annihilation is an absurdity in terms.

— Bernard Palissy

“Hatred wants to annihilate, but it annihilates by destroying, by making our awareness dull, by suppressing, by dividing. True Nature does not really annihilate,…

— A.H. Almaas

Annihilation, they say, is the product of our motives. But since the dawn of time our purpose and impulse was to destroy.

— Jeremy Limn

The human race has today the means for annihilating itself--either in a fit of complete lunacy, i.e., in a big war...or by the careless…

— Max Born

We are the first species capable of self-annihilation.

— Elon Musk

Many people believe that the current system must inevitably end in total annihilation. They reject, sometimes very emotionally, any attempts to analyze this notion.

— Herman Kahn

Nothing suffers annihilation, but at dissolution there is a change, and things fall back to the essential element in which they were before.

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Annihilation itself is no death to evil. Only good where evil was, is evil dead. An evil thing must live with its evil until…

— George MacDonald

“annihilation will be unavoidable”

— Disturbed