Quotes about Destruction
Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.
— Henry Ward Beecher
By its very nature, hate destroys and tears down; by its very nature, love creates and builds up.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The tragic side of many architectural enterprises is that they destroy natural beauties which are a priceless possession and cannot be replaced.
— Helen Keller
Nature abhors annihilation.
— Cicero
My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men will find that in one instant, whole armies can be utterly destroyed, they surely will abide by golden peace.
— Alfred Nobel
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Man has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
— Ayn Rand
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
I think, for me, nuclear is just the power, the devastation is very important to me.
— Donald Trump
People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians.
— George Lucas
For each person there is a sentence—a series of words—which has the power to destroy them.
— Philip K. Dick