Destructive Power Quotes:

Everything is destroyed by its own particular vice: the destructive power resides within. Rust destroys iron, moths destroy clothes, the worm eats away the wood; but greatest of all evils is envy, impious habitant of corrupt souls, which ever was, is, and shall be a consuming disease.

- Menander

topic: War, Iron, Clothes, Destructive Power

You see, nature will do exactly what it must, and if we are a hindrance to its development, to even its destructive powers to reform itself and we are in a way, we will go.

- Ralph Steadman

topic: Way, Reform, Development, Destructive Power, Hindrance

I think what's happened is that the general public has become much more aware of the destructive power of Wall Street.

- Cathy O'Neil

topic: Wall, Thinking, Streets, Destructive Power

Today we are going to talk about words. You know, words are containers for power. They carry creative or destructive power. They carry positive or negative power. We can choose our words and we should do it carefully.

- Joyce Meyer

topic: Creative, Negative, Our Words, Destructive Power

Words are so awesome. Words are containers for power. They carry either creative power or destructive power.

- Joyce Meyer

source: Joyce Meyer (2002). “8 Ways to Keep the Devil Under Your Feet”

topic: Creative, Containers, Destructive, Destructive Power

We want our children to live in an America...that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet.

- Barack Obama

source: Barack Obama's re-election speech in Chicago, www.bbc.com. November 7, 2012.

topic: Children, World, Want, Destructive Power

Science for the Citizen is ... also written for the large and growing number of adolescents, who realize that they will be the first victims of the new destructive powers of science misapplied.

- Lancelot Hogben

topic: Numbers, Citizens, Growing, Destructive Power

Deterrence failed completely as a guide in setting rational limits on the size and composition of military forces, spurring an insatiable arms race with a reckless proliferation of the most destructive power ever unleashed, tailored for delivery by a vast array of vehicles to a stupefying array of targets.

- George Lee Butler

topic: Military, Race, Target, Destructive Power, Deterrence

In an all-out nuclear war, more destructive power than in all of World War II would be unleashed every second during the long afternoon it would take for all the missiles and bombs to fall. A World War II every second-more people killed in the first few hours than all the wars of history put together. The survivors, if any, would live in despair amid the poisoned ruins of a civilization that had committed suicide.

- Jimmy Carter

source: United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1982). “Jimmy Carter”

topic: Suicide, War, Fall, Destructive Power

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (whose mother died ten days after she was born) wrote a novel that anticipates Semmelweis's discovery and serves as a parable for the destructive power of decaying matter.

- Laura Mullen

topic: Mother, Discovery, Matter, Shelley, Destructive Power

The destructive power of a lie is stronger than the truth.

- Henry Rollins

topic: Lying, Stronger, Adages, Destructive Power

Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: War, Evil, Growth, Destructive Power, Preventing

By rejecting faith in Jesus Christ, America has also rejected God's protective hand, which until recently, sheltered this nation from harm. We have invited the devil which all his diabolical and destructive power in our daily lives.

- Bill Bright

source: Bill Bright, John N. Damoose (1998). “Red Sky in the Morning”

topic: Jesus, America, Hands, Destructive Power, Diabolical

Our status as a free society and world power is not based on brute strength. When we've taken up arms, it has been for the defense of freedom for ourselves and for other peaceful nations who needed our help. But now, faced with the development of weapons with immense destructive power, we've no choice but to maintain ready defense forces that are second to none. Yes, the cost is high, but the price of neglect would be infinitely higher.

- Ronald Reagan

source: United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1983). “Ronald Reagan”

topic: Freedom, Taken, Choices, Destructive Power, World Power

De Tocqueville considered the impulse toward well-being as one of the strongest impulses of a democratic society. He can't be blamed for underestimating the destructive powers generated by this same impulse.

- Saul Bellow

source: Saul Bellow (1976). “Herzog”, Viking Adult

topic: Underestimate, Democratic, Impulse, Destructive Power

A challenge so far-reaching in its impact and irreversible in its destructive power, that it alters radically human existence... There is no doubt that the time to act is now.

- Tony Blair

source: Tony Blair's Speech on the Environment and the 'Urgent Issue' of Climate Change, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2004.

topic: Impact, Challenges, Doubt, Destructive Power

We will establish ourselves in Palestine whether you like it or not...You can hasten our arrival or you can equally ***** it. It is however better for you to help us so as to avoid our constructive powers being turned into a destructive power which will overthrow the world.

- Chaim Weizmann

source: Judische Rundschau, No. 4, 1920.

topic: World, Helping, You Like It, Zionism, Destructive Power

It is an art in itself to compose a starting team, finding the balance between creative players and those with destructive powers, and between defence, construction and attack – never forgetting the quality of the opposition and the specific pressures of each match.

- Rinus Michels

topic: Art, Team, Player, Destructive Power

The United States military is now evolving geometrically as it gains experience from near-constant fighting and grafts new technology daily. Indeed, it seems to be doubling, tripling, and even quadrupling its lethality every few years. And the result is that we are outdistancing not merely the capabilities of our enemies but our allies as well - many of whom who have not fought in decades - at such a dizzying pace that our sheer destructive power makes it hard to work with others in joint operations.

- Victor Davis Hanson

source: "Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, What Obsessing About You-Know-Who Causes Us To Miss". www.tomdispatch.com. May 7, 2017.

topic: Military, Fighting, Technology, Destructive Power, United States Military

Common grace curbs the destructive power of sin, maintains in a measure the moral order of the universe, thus making an orderly life possible, distributes in varying degrees gifts and talents among men, promotes the development of science and art, and showers untold blessings upon the children of men.

- Louis Berkhof

source: Louis Berkhof (0101). “Systematic Theology”, p.551

topic: Art, Children, Blessing, Children Of Men, Curb

Few literary depictions of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake match the intensity and visceral power of those in Flacco's gripping first novel. The author's screenwriting talent shines in this story of the earth's destructive power and humanity's moral depravity. The emerging maniacal personality, revealed in increasingly gruesome and venomous detail, rivals the Ripper.Dickens meets Hannibal Lecter. Brace yourself.

- William Bernhardt

topic: Earthquakes, San Francisco, Personality, Braces, Moral Depravity

She stared at me. "Fly, ;ole, in an airplane, which you were warned never to do lest Zeus strike you out of the sky, AND carrying a weapon that has more destructive power than a nuclear bomb?" "Yeah," I said. "Pretty much exactly like that.

- Rick Riordan

topic: Airplane, Sky, Nuclear, Destructive Power, Nuclear Bomb