Destruction Quotes - page 41

Destruction was effected after visitation, for visitation always precedes. (Emanuel Swedenborg)
It is an invention of the devil, an infernal falsity for the destruction of all Christianity. View quote
Michael Servetus
People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Until he man has become fully human, until he learns to conduct himself as a member of the earth, he will continue to create gods who will destroy him. The tragedy of Greece lies not in the destruction of a great culture but in the abortion of a great vision. View quote
Henry Miller
All about us we see a world in revolt; but revolt is negative, a mere finishing-off process. In the midst of destruction we carry with us also our creation, our hopes, our strength, our urge to be fulfilled. View quote
Henry Miller
Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time. View quote
J. J. Abrams
I love food! I wake up in the morning and one of the first things on my mind is food, what are we going to eat for lunch? ... In Italy... I like the sense of family that you have, the long summertime lunches with uncles who give you advice, the limoncello at the end of meals... Family means to help each other through difficult times, give each other a hand, as in a community. ... I admire vegans... I like to eat fish once in while, but I don't eat meat anymore because animal farms are one of the main causes of the destruction of the planet. View quote
Willem Dafoe
The astral perisprit is contained and confined within the physical body as ether in a bottle, or magnetism in magnetized iron. It is a centre and engine of force, fed from the universal supply of force, and moved by the same general laws which pervade all nature and produce all cosmical phenomena. Its inherent activity causes the incessant physical operations of the animal organism and ultimately results in the destruction of the latter by overuse and its own escape. It is the prisoner, not the voluntary tenant, of the body. View quote
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
She wanted to leave, she wanted to lie alone face down on her bed and savor the vile piquancy of the moment, and go back down the lines of branching consequences to the point before the destruction began. She needed to contemplate with eyes closed the full richness of what she had lost, what she had given away, and to anticipate the new regime. View quote
Ian McEwan
The destruction of our environment and resources cannot be stemmed unless the growth of the world's population is stemmed and ultimately reduced. View quote
Henry Way Kendall
INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction. (Ambrose Bierce)
K, n. A consonant originally precisely that of our H, but altered to its present shape to commemorate the destruction of one of two lofty columns in the great temple of Jarute. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
As fish in the water love deep places and wells and are most frequently found there, so wicked men have a great love to carnal security and have no will to strive against the stream. Fish love deep places best where there is least noise. Oh, how careful are natural men to keep all quiet, that there may be nothing to disturb them in their rest in sin! They love to be secure which is their destruction. O my soul, beware of carnal security, of being secure, though plunged over head and ears in sin. View quote
Thomas Boston
Evil cannot perish without the destruction of much that lives by the evil, and it is no less destruction even if we personally are saved the pain of a sensational act of violence. View quote
Sri Aurobindo
The Taliban's acts of cultural vandalism - the most infamous being the destruction of the giant Bamiyan Buddhas - had a devastating effect on Afghan culture and the artistic scene. The Taliban burned countless films, VCRs, music tapes, books, and paintings. They jailed filmmakers, musicians, painters, and sculptors. View quote
Khaled Hosseini
In a time of destruction, create something. View quote
Maxine Hong Kingston
I'd say the chances are about 50-50 that humanity will be extinct or nearly extinct within 50 years. Weapons of mass destruction, disease, I mean this global warming is scaring the living daylights out of me. View quote
Ted Turner
Just like the threat of mutually assured destruction from nuclear weapons, an extensive war in space would make space useless, and the decisions taken today will influence the use of space for many generations to come. View quote
Nayef Al-Rodhan
It is the resolve of the government that none will be allowed to get away with making speeches that can cause sedition or that can cause violence, especially because when we make these kinds of pronouncement and do things that can cause violence or destruction of lives and property, we are no longer in control. View quote
Yemi Osinbajo
Confrontation is the road to war, destruction and end of civilization. View quote
Yevgeniy Chazov
Since we, scientists, face the tragic lot of further increasing the murderous effectiveness of the means of destruction, it is our most solemn and noble duty to prevent the use of these weapons for the cruel ends they were designed to achieve. (Yevgeniy Chazov)
This [9/11 event] was bloody-minded destruction for no other reason than to do it. Note that there was no claim for these attacks. There were no demands. There were no statements. It was a silent piece of terror. This was part of nothing. View quote
Edward Said
I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction. View quote
Anthony Kiedis
Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall. View quote
Joseph Addison
Saddam Hussein is a homicidal dictator who is addicted to weapons of mass destruction. View quote
George W. Bush