Destroyer Quotes

Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the planet from intelligence and handed it to love. (Richard Bach)
Now, I am become Death, the destroyer (shatterer) of worlds. View quote
Robert Oppenheimer
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees Is my destroyer. And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose My youth is bend by the same wintry fever. View quote
Dylan Thomas
There is no doubt that the real destroyer of the liberties of any people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and largess. View quote
Plutarch
As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. View quote
Pythagoras
Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history. View quote
Ayn Rand
The tragic element in poetry is like Saturn in alchemy, - the Malevolent, the Destroyer of Nature; but without it no true Aurum Potabile, or Elixir of Life, can be made. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I realized that searching was my symbol, the emblem of those who go out at night with nothing in mind, the motives of a destroyer of compasses. View quote
Julio Cortázar
Every day a sharp tool, a powerful destroyer, is necessary to cut away dullness, lobotomy, buzzing, belief in human beings, stagnancy, images, and accumulation. As soon as we stop believing in human beings, rather know we are dogs and trees, we'll start to be happy. View quote
Kathy Acker
He knew that most machines are amoral, neither bad nor good. But by the way you built and shaped them you in turn shaped men, women, and children to be bad or good. A car, for instance, dead brute, unthinking, an unprogrammed bulk, is the greatest destroyer of souls in history. It makes boy-men greedy for power, destruction, and more destruction. It was never intended to do that. But that's how it turned out. View quote
Ray Bradbury
Through money, democracy becomes its own destroyer, after money has destroyed intellect. (Oswald Spengler)
How can we still speak of the salvation and reformation of Europe, when we have to ask Europe's destroyer for help? View quote
Alfred Rosenberg
The grand destroyer of the world, and the greatest threat... is represented by U.S. imperialism. View quote
Hugo Chávez
Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh, hear! View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
If you don't want to be noticed, you don't use a Star Destroyer. View quote
Timothy Zahn
I am the god Apostolos. The Harbinger of Telikos. The Final Fate of all. Beloved son of Apollymi the Great Destroyer. My will makes the will of the universe. [Apostolos / Acheron Parthenopaeus]. View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up. View quote
Barney Ross
If you've ever seen the film In Which We Serve, but it was about a destroyer in the Mediterranean. View quote
Richard Attenborough
As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love. View quote
Pythagoras
Once again, the world is faced with a transcendent conflict between those who love life and those who love death both for themselves and their enemies. Which is why we tremble. Upon witnessing the first atomic bomb explode at the Trinity site at Alamogordo, J. Robert Oppenheimer recited a verse from the Hindu scripture "Bhagavad Gita": "Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds." We tremble because for the first time in history, nihilism will soon be armed with the ultimate weapons of annihilation. For the first time in history, the nihilist will have the means to match his ends. Which is why the war declared upon us on September 11 is the most urgent not only of our lives, but in the life of civilization itself. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
Self-pity, a destroyer of perspective. (Edmund Cooper)
We may deny the existence of ethnonationalism, detest it, condemn it. But this creator and destroyer of empires and nations is a force infinitely more powerful than globalism, for it engages the heart. Men will die for it. Religion, race, culture and tribe are the four horsemen of the coming apocalypse. View quote
Pat Buchanan
Marx sees Epicurus as a destroyer of the Greek myths and as a philosopher bringing to light the break-up of a tribal community. His system destroyed the visible heaven of the ancients as a keystone of political and religious life. Marx allies himself, so to speak, with Epicurean atheism, which he regards at this stage as a challenge by the intellectual élite to the cohorts of common sense. ‘As long as a single drop of blood pulses in her world-conquering and totally free heart, philosophy will continually shout at her opponents the cry of Epicurus: "Impiety does not consist in destroying the gods of the crowd but rather in ascribing to the gods the ideas of the crowd.”' (pp. 102-3) View quote
Leszek Kołakowski
Whatever happens, happens to you by you, through you; you are the creator, enjoyer and destroyer of all you perceive. View quote
Nisargadatta Maharaj
His destiny had betrayed him, had made him a destroyer on a scale that humbled even Caine. Destiny, he understood with bitter certainty, could not be trusted. View quote
Matthew Stover