Quotes about Destruction

We may give our human loves the unconditional allegiance which we owe only to God. Then they become gods: then they become demons. Then they will destroy us, and also destroy themselves.

I felt, even at fifteen, that God meant man to be happy, that He meant to provide him with what he needed to maintain life in order to be happy, and that we did not need to have quite so much destruction and misery as I saw all around and read of in the daily press.

Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.

Anger, The spring of all life's horror.

The reduction of nuclear arsenals and the removal of the threat of worldwide nuclear destruction is a measure, in my judgment, ofthe power and strength of a great nation.

There was a spark inside that holiest of holy places that made people want to possess it, and what men yearn for they often destroy.

but as God created life, so did He create destruction.

She understood love. What destroys you saves you, she had told me.

if you are from Africa you recognize Medusa's wings as the wings of Egypt, and you recognize the head of Medusa as the head of Africa; and what you realize you are seeing is the Western world's memorialization of that period in prehistory when the white male world of Greece decapitated and destroyed the black female Goddess/Mother tradition and culture of Africa.

It became necessary to destroy the town to save it.

Who would have thought a good little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness?

Behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven.