Destruction Quotes

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? (Mahatma Gandhi)
The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes. View quote
Simone Weil
Self-conceit may lead to self destruction. View quote
Aesop
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
See, free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction. View quote
George W. Bush
Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction." ― Pablo Picasso. View quote
Pablo Picasso
To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster! View quote
Denis Diderot
The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction. View quote
Aesop
The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings. View quote
William Hazlitt
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction. View quote
Simone Weil
White males are the most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today. (Robin Morgan)
Tragedy speaks not of secular dilemmas which may be resolved by rational innovation, but of the unalterable bias toward inhumanity and destruction in the drift of the world. View quote
George Steiner
[Iran, Libya and Syria] are irresponsible states, which must be disarmed of weapons [of] mass destruction, and a successful American move in Iraq as a model will make that easier to achieve. View quote
Ariel Sharon
To eat is to appropriate by destruction. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
Suicide is not an answer, it's destruction. View quote
Al Green
I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources. View quote
Yvon Chouinard
Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values. View quote
Christopher Lasch
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
Transient bodies are only subject to destruction through their substance and not through their form, nor can the essence of their form be destroyed; in this respect, they are permanent. View quote
Maimonides
We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction. View quote
Lester B. Pearson
In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction a hand is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently towards a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward and the hand may be a little child's. (George Eliot)
We must abandon the unworkable notion that it is morally reprehensible for some countries to pursue weapons of mass destruction, yet morally acceptable for others to rely on them for security - and indeed to continue to refine their capacities and postulate plans for their use. View quote
Mohamed ElBaradei
There is only one tactical principle which is not subject to change. It is to use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wound, death, and destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time. View quote
George S. Patton
It must be so - Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, O falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. View quote
Joseph Addison
There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them. View quote
Friedrich Dürrenmatt