Destruction Quotes

We feel a private thrill, admit it, at the sight of beauty in flames. We wish to blast all the fine ...

My son used to believe that he could look at a plane in flight and make it explode in midair by simp...

What if one happens to be possessed of a heart that can’t be trusted—? What if the heart, for its ow...

Note: The mind is a superb interment if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destruc...

A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.

Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its ...

The fact that no limits exist to the destructiveness of this weapon [the 'Super', i.e. the hydrogen ...

If America and the Western world continue in their state of unconscious hopelessness, lack of faith ...

To create, I destroyed myself; I made myself external to such a degree within myself that within mys...

During last night’s insomnia, as these thoughts came and went between my aching temples, I realised ...

Love's cruel notion. - Every great love brings with it the cruel idea of killingthe object of that l...

Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?

Freedom to breed will bring ruin to all.

With its grace and carelessness, it seemed to annihilate a whole culture, a whole system of thought,...

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of huma...

It was nearly lunch-time before Blackie had finished and went in search of T. Chaos had advanced. Th...

We have nothing to destroy," said Rud. "All these things are done for already. They are falling in a...

John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bom...

It would be well to realize that the talk of ‘humane methods of warfare’, of the ‘rules of civilized...

It is not what they built. It is what they knocked down.It is not the houses. It is the spaces betwe...

The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got into t...

I am the spirit that negates.And rightly so, for all that comes to beDeserves to perish wretchedly;'...

Whatever liberates our spirit without giving us mastery over ourselves is destructive.

A terrorist, I think, is simply another kind of pornographer. The pornographer pretends he is disgus...

The hero, the waker of his own soul, is himself but the convenient means of his own dissolution.

It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Saints over the manuscripts on which th...

She wanted to destroy something. The crash and clatter were what she wanted to hear.

Everything might scatter. You might be right. I suppose it's something we can't easily get away from...

If you destroy the foundations of anything, the structure will collapse. If you want to destroy any ...

Now you see what kind of creatures we are, Hugh. Eating things alive. That's what we do. How can you...

Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, "Love your enemies." It is this: that love has ...

In a time of destruction, create something.

It seems to me that evil is a kind of ultimate greed, a greed that is so all-encompassing that it ca...

We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a ...

The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.

The passion for destruction is also a creative passion

I think I’ll dismember the world and then I’ll dance in the wreckage.

No visiting angel, or explorer from another planet could have guessed that this bland orb teemed wit...

Destruction is like a snow-ball rolled down a Hill, for its Bulk encreases by its own swiftness and ...

Another flaw of the system is the fact that various danger fronts often require very different firma...

No one can win against kipple," he said, "except temporarily and maybe in one spot, like in my apart...

It is man who kills, man who creates or suffers injustice; it is no longer man who, having lost all ...

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us th...

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, t...

Last night I thought about all that kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about bo...

How must it have felt, Pikes, the night they seized your films, like entrails yanked from the camera...

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I s...

You look at these mountains now, and they look so permanent and peaceful, but they're changing all t...

Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the strai...

Creation and destruction are one, to the eyes who can see beauty.And the greatest praise to India is...

we are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our body, which is doomed to decay..., ...

The tyrant is a child of PrideWho drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity,Until from h...

The destruction of this universe would have no significance on a cosmic scale.

The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.

Do they see the lethal insanity of a race to the brink of oblivion, and then over the edge? Apparent...

I wanted myself. I wouldn't let what was mine be destroyed.

Dour music has its own beauty, for the song of ruin is most fertile.

I thought about the current contamination of beaches, raw sewage spilling into oceans and streams, t...

There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general:(1) Recklessness, which leads to destruct...

What obsession do men have for destruction and murder? Who do we electrocute men for murdering an in...

There are matters in that book, said to be done by the express command of God, that are as shocking ...

The power to lead is the power to mislead, and the power to mislead is the power to destroy.

They have nothing to give. They have no power of making. All their power is to darken and destroy. T...

Chaos and destruction do tend to take away a person's dating possibilities.

The nights now are full of wind and destruction; the trees plunge and bend and their leaves fly helt...

What did you do for them, Bone? Teach them to read and write? Help them rebuild, give them Christ, h...

Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.

The growth of the exploiters' revolution on this continent has been accompanied by the growth of the...

What this country needs... what this great land of ours needs is something to happen to it. Somethin...

Better to be caught in sudden, complete catastrophe than to be gnawed by the cancer of imagination.

Any philosophy, whether of a religious or political nature - and sometimes the dividing line is hard...

Ah, this dear old planet! All is clear now. We know ourselves; we now know of what we are capable.

If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker.

Orgy-porgy, round and round and round, beating one another in six-eight time.

Do not become attached to anything that can destroy you in the course of time.

I have no fear of ghosts, and I have never heard it said that so much harm had been done by the dead...

I often see how you sob over what you destroy, how you want to stop and just worship; and you do sto...

The monster I kill every day is the monster of realism. The monster who attacks me every day is dest...

One can always find hands for a work of destruction.

Love me. You have destroyed everything! But if you love me, it can all be restored in a new form. Lo...

Then there was like quiet and we were full of like hate, so smashed what was left to be smashed.

To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to piece...

Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.

Those candle flames were like the lives of men. So fragile. So deadly. Left alone, they lit and warm...

If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.

To love is to destroy, and to be the one loved is to be destroyed.

to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.

to love is to destroy and that to be loved is the one to be destroyed

the way to create art is to burn and destroyordinary concepts and to substitute themwith new truths ...

darkness falls upon Humanityand faces become terriblethingsthat wanted more than therewas.all our da...

Endurance over-goaded, stretched the hand of fraternity to sedition.

Only after disaster can we be resurrected.

Hey, even the Mona Lisa is falling apart.

but the crime is more important than the punishment. I enliven all of me in my happy instinct for de...

Life was taking its vengeance on me, and that vengeance consisted merely in coming back, nothing mor...

That is how the European tribes operate, she said, If they can't control it, they destroy it.

Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the ambe...

Take one famous example: arguments about property destruction after Seattle. Most of these, I think,...

Lady Moon rose an' gazed o'er my busted'n'beautsome Valleys with silv'ry'n'sorryin' eyes, an' the di...

...seeking refuge from a world in which huge and mysterious forces were let loose to destruction.