Destruction Quotes

Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.
Bob Marley

Healing, Alcohol, Nation

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
Abraham Lincoln

Time, Live, Through

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
Thomas Jefferson

Power, Corruption, Country

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
Thomas Jefferson

Life, Happiness, Good

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.
Mahatma Gandhi

Greatest, Force, Mankind

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
Mahatma Gandhi

Democracy, Liberty, Mad

Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.
Warren Buffett

Financial, Weapons, Mass

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
Pablo Picasso

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
Victor Hugo

God, Bad, Destroy

I think that you can disagree with people and debate over their positions with issues without engaging in the politics of personal destruction.
Hillary Clinton

Politics, Personal, Issues

Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.
Bertrand Russell

Love, Made, Used

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
George Orwell

War, Human, Lives

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
Richard Steele

Gossip, Fire, Tongue

The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.
Karl Marx

Everything, Done, General

Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.
Madeleine L'Engle

Dark, Creativity, Sometimes

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
Jean-Paul Sartre

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 Saramago

Human, Fashion, State

The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
E. O. Wilson

Forgive, Process, Natural

We have it. The smoking gun. The evidence. The potential weapon of mass destruction we have been looking for as our pretext of invading Iraq. There's just one problem - it's in North Korea.
Jon Stewart

Problem, Smoking, Gun

Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction.
George W. Bush

Free, Peaceful, Nations

The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.
E. M. Forster

Growth, English, Genuine

The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.
William Hazlitt

Pain, Concern, Fellow

Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.
Augustine of Hippo

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.
Elizabeth I

Nature, Fear, Small

A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.
Elie Wiesel

Provoke, Prevent

In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
Audre Lorde

Work, Living, Reason

The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.
William Hazlitt

Pain, Concern, Millions

Saddam Hussein is a homicidal dictator who is addicted to weapons of mass destruction.
George W. Bush

Weapons, Mass, Dictator

Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.
Rebecca West

Powerful, Hypocrisy, Likely

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
Simone Weil

Greatest, Past, Perhaps

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