Quotes about Destruction

As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.

In the Destroyer's steps there spring up bright creations that defy his power, and his dark path becomes a way of light to Heaven.

A frivolous society can acquire significance through what its frivolity destroys.

As long ago as Pythagoras, man was taught that all things were in a state of flux, without end as without beginning, and must we still, after more than two thousand years, pretend to regard the universe as some gigantic toy manufactured in six days by a Superhuman Artisan, who is presently to destroy it at his pleasure?

Rage and phrenzy will pull down more in half an hour, than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in an hundred years.

Anger shows contempt. You are better than they. You are smarter, more righteous—you are above and they are below. Anger tears down. It kills relationships.

I don't know the weapons that will be used in the Third World War, but in the Forth men will use wood and stones

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.

Wherever men are weak, there is no love - and destruction reigns.

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

until the fear of catastrophe amends, or catastrophe itself destroys...