quotes about Destruction
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The official Hamas charter calls for the murder of Jews and destruction of the Jewish state.
-- Aaron Klein -
Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true.
-- Adyashanti -
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Happiness is generous. It does not subsist on destruction.
-- Albert Camus -
Balance every thought with its opposition. Because the marriage of them is the destruction of illusion.
-- Aleister Crowley -
Socialism of any type leads to a total destruction of the human spirit.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
The United Nations is the best hope to spare humanity from the barbarity of war, from the senseless death, destruction and dislocation it brings about.
-- Alfred-Maurice de ZayasSource : "Rights expert urges the UN General Assembly to adopt a more decisive role in peace-making (For International Day of Peace, Saturday 21 September 2013)". dezayasalfred.wordpress.com. September 21, 2013.
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[There is only one possible solution to unrest in the Middle East], "namely the annihilation and destruction of the Zionist state.
-- Ali KhameneiSource : "Iranian Leader Urges Destruction of Israel". The Spokesman-Review, January 01, 2000.
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The destruction of Wonderland, is the destruction of me?!
-- Alice LiddellSource : "Fictional character: Alice Liddell". "Alice: Madness Returns", 2011.
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We must hunt the terrorists down and kill them. There is no other way to respond to those so committed to the destruction of life.
-- Allyson Schwartz -
He, who can create, abhors destruction.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
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Criticism in good faith is good. When it's targeted solely to destruction, I'm not interested.
-- Andrea Bocelli -
We have to create; it is the only thing louder than destruction.
-- Andrea Gibson -
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All of these riots around the globe are endangering the world. And mobs are always dangerous, destructive things that end society. Liberal policies promote mobs because liberals crawl on the mobs, the destruction wrought by the mobs to attain power. Tere's only one way to react to a mob to save civilized society, and that is to smash the mob. It is not to mollycoddle the mob.
-- Ann Coulter -
We've taken a show about destruction and turned it into a show about construction.
-- Anson Mount -
Every single courageous act of coming out chips away at the curse of homophobia. Most importantly it's destroyed within yourself, and that act creates the potential for its destruction where it exists in friends, family and society.
-- Anthony Venn-Brown -
Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships.
-- Antonin Artaud -
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if i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
I do not seek the good of others as a sanction for my right to exist, nor do I recognize the good of others as a justification for their seizure of my property or their destruction of my life.
-- Ayn Rand -
There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.
-- Ayn Rand -
All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.
-- Barbara AmielSource : "Barbara Amiel quote" by Litera.co.uk, November 19, 2008.
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You tell me over and over and over again, my friend, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.
-- Barry McGuireSource : Song: Eve Of Destruction
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The attempt to politicize everything is the destruction of politics. When everything is seen as relevant to politics, than politics has in fact become totalitarian.
-- Bernard CrickSource : Bernard Crick (2013). “In Defence of Politics”, p.125, A&C Black
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The United Nations cannot stand by and witness the destruction of the people of West Papua.
-- Bernard Dowiyogo -
We must rid the world of the scourge of these agents of death and destruction
-- Boutros Boutros-Ghali -
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I had to escape the destruction of my fathers bankruptcy and all that difficulty.
-- Brendan Coyle -
Any band that is out there chasing it is doing more destruction to music then someone who is out there playing what they truly feel.
-- Bret Michaels -
The absorption of the individual in the universal is only another term for its destruction.
-- C. H. Dodd -
Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.
-- C. V. Wedgwood -
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There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
-- Calvin CoolidgeSource : Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses”, p.64, The Minerva Group, Inc.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
-- Carl Sagan -
Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
-- CatullusSource : Gaius Valerius Catullus (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Catullus (Illustrated)”, p.27, Delphi Classics
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Perhaps the greatest and least visible form of impoverishment caused by the Corporate State is the destruction of community.
-- Charles A. ReichSource : charles a. reich (1970). “the greening of america”
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If you think the X-Men are going to be push-overs, think again! Far better men than you have pledged their destruction ... yet the X-Men are still here.
-- Chris Claremont -
Hey, even the Mona Lisa is falling apart.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
Only after disaster can we be resurrected.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
Guns know no policy except destruction.
-- Clare Boothe Luce -
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Alas! by what slight means are great affairs brought to destruction.
-- Claudius Claudianus -
He [Christ] came to bring peace, to be sure, but the peace that He came to bring must be built upon the complete destruction of the power of darkness.
-- Cornelius Van Til -
She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it.
-- Curtis Sittenfeld -
Did you know destruction of the soul is not the ending to life: Fear not of the Antichrist.
-- Damian Marley -
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I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view.
-- Dan Farmer -
I know not what to call this, nor will I urge that it is a secret, overruling decree, that hurries us on to be the instruments of our own destruction, even though it be before us, and that we rush upon it with our eyes open.
-- Daniel Defoe -
I'm as obsessive with health as I was with destruction.
-- Dave NavarroSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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The Olivet Discourse is not about the Second Coming of Christ. It is a prophecy of the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70.
-- David Chilton -
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The difference between destruction of the immune system and stimulation of the immune system is an interpretation.
-- Deepak Chopra -
I'm not concerned about weapons of mass destruction.
-- Douglas J. Feith -
The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.
-- Douglas MacArthur -
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In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.
-- Edwin Way Teale -
A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.
-- Elie Wiesel -
Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.
-- Elizabeth I -
The destruction of the personality is the great evil of the time.
-- Ellen Key -
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I have never advised the destruction of life, but of property, yes.
-- Emmeline Pankhurst -
In order to understand, I destroyed myself.
-- Fernando Pessoa -
A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
-- Florence Nightingale -
Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?
-- Frederic Bastiat -
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There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them
-- Friedrich Durrenmatt -
Love is more afraid of change than destruction.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
There's always some amount of gradual, slow burning destruction over the course of partying.
-- Gavin DeGraw -
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The biggest threat facing America is terrorists with weapons of mass destruction.
-- George W. Bush -
There's something very romantic about self-destruction and sabotaging your life, and taking a hammer to it.
-- Gerard WaySource : Source: www.mtv.com
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My default is self-destruction, and anything on top of that is a bloody lot of work.
-- Gillian Anderson -
Altruism is masked self-interest. Aggressive self-interest is a masked urge to self-destruction.
-- Greg BearSource : Greg Bear (2014). “The Forge of God”, p.246, Open Road Media
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And the distinction between violent and non-violent action is that the former is exclusively bent upon the destruction of the old, and the latter is chiefly concerned with the establishment of something new.
-- Hannah Arendt -
All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage.
-- Harold Pinter -
B.O.Y. means ‘Beware of You’… Be aware of your power. We have the choice to live positively or in our own destruction.
-- Hayley Williams -
Fear... the right and necessary counterweights to that courage which urges men skyward, and protects them from self-destruction
-- Heinrich Harrer -
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And it's the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.
-- Helen Clark MacInnes -
At any rate, mutually assured destruction was never our policy.
-- Henry A. Kissinger -
The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
Anything that reduces war-related destruction should not be considered altogether immoral.
-- Herman Kahn -
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I thought I had an appetite for destruction, but all I wanted was a club sandwich.
-- Homer -
He who fears is literally delivered to destruction.
-- Howard Thurman -
Saddam's removal is necessary to eradicate the threat from his weapons of mass destruction
-- Jack Straw -
.., by universal custom, your enemy is never more polite than when he is planning or has planned your destruction.
-- James ClavellSource : James Clavell (2009). “Shogun”, p.279, Dell
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So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.
-- James Dickey -
What did it avail to pray when he knew his soul lusted after its own destruction?
-- James Joyce -
If we allow the destruction of the environment, we can see the terrorists have utterly won, and are destroying the future of our children and grandchildren. We must not let that happen.
-- Jane Goodall -
Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery!
-- John Brown -
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The road of denial leads to the precipice of destruction
-- John Bunyan -
Man at his best is a system-breaker, an iconoclast seeking not only variety, but destruction.
-- John Carroll -
To read a poem with no thought in mind but to paraphrase it into a single, simple and usually high-minded prose statement is the destruction of poetry.
-- John Ciardi -
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When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction.
-- Jonathan Davis -
A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.
-- Jose SaramagoSource : "Interview with Jose Saramago, Author of Blindness". Political Affairs Magazine Interview, www.politicalaffairs.net. March 2006.
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You cannot seriously address the destruction of wilderness without addressing the society that is destroying it.
-- Judi Bari -
What good is a writer if he can't destroy literature? And us... what good are we if we don't help as much as we can in that destruction?
-- Julio Cortazar -
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My life has not been the best possible. The slave of impulse, I have rushed forward to my own destruction.
-- Lady Caroline LambSource : Lady Caroline Lamb (2009). “The works of Lady Caroline Lamb”
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All my humor is based upon destruction and despair.
-- Lenny Bruce -
Death destroys the body, as the scaffolding is destroyed after the building is up and finished. And he whose building is up rejoices at the destruction of the scaffolding and of the body.
-- Leo Tolstoy -
Motion is created by the destruction of balance.
-- Leonardo da Vinci -
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If Darwin had seen in life what Dostoevsky saw, he would not have talked of the law of the preservation of species, but of its destruction.
-- Lev Shestov -
The lure of happiness and the fear of pain . . . are the two forces which have through untold millenniums kept what we usually call life from destruction by the ever encroaching outside forces of destruction.
-- Luther Burbank -
I've always turned my anger inwards towards self-destruction.
-- Mackenzie Phillips -
My words are unerring tools of destruction, and I’ve come unequipped with the ability to disarm them.
-- Maggie StiefvaterSource : Twitter post from Mar 21, 2018
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