Destruction Quotes

Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.
Marquis de Sade

Nature, Creation, Hence

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Human, Die, Body

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.
Jonathan Swift

Life, Human, Find

To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!
Denis Diderot

Love, End, Nothing

Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction.
Theodor Adorno

Same, Big, Grow

If Bush, as I believe, has reliable information on the fact that Saddam Hussein is making weapons of mass destruction, I cannot not support the policies of his government.
Steven Spielberg

Government, Cannot, Fact

A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Death, May, Nation

Our task, your task... is to try to connect the dots before something happens. People say, 'Well, where's the smoking gun?' Well, we don't want to see a smoking gun from a weapon of mass destruction.
Donald Rumsfeld

Before, Try, Smoking

Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children.
Donald Rumsfeld

Women, Men, Children

I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism.
Cat Stevens

Faith, Religion, Spiritual

A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
Joseph Conrad

Time, Through, Far

What the Dalai Lama had to resolve was whether to stay in Tibet or leave. He wanted to stay, but staying would have meant the total destruction of Tibet, because he would have died and that would have ripped the heart out of his people.
Martin Scorsese

Heart, Wanted, Leave

Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Family, Woman, Destiny

Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.
Yasser Arafat

Peace, War, Last

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.
Anthony Kiedis

Art, Mind, Rather

I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.
Martin Scorsese

Love, History, Fall

Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.
Christopher Lasch

Social, Values, Side

Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing.
Bryant H. McGill

Power, Nothing, Person

At a time when unbridled greed, malignant aggression, and existence of weapons of mass destruction threatens the survival of humanity, we should seriously consider any avenue that offers some hope.
Stanislav Grof

Time, Hope, Humanity

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.
Aesop

Self, May, Lead

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
Aesop

Give, Often, Means

Sun-bleached bones were most wonderful against the blue - that blue that will always be there as it is now after all man's destruction is finished.
Georgia O'Keeffe

After, Wonderful, Against

It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.
David Hume

Reason, Whole, Contrary

Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.
Nancy Pelosi

Technology, Made, Process

We are reflections of one another, therefore I know that you are part of me and I am part of you because we are all projections of the universal principles of creation/destruction polarities of the same infinite consciousness that we call God.
David Icke

God, Same, Another

Saddam's goal is to achieve the lifting of U.N. sanctions while retaining and enhancing Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs. We cannot, we must not and we will not let him succeed.
Madeleine Albright

Him, Goal, Cannot

Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.
Madeleine Albright

Money, Spend, Building

When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction.
Jonathan Davis

Music, Death, Listen

The creative destruction that social media is currently unleashing will change more than technology or the leader board of the Fortune 100. It is driving a qualitative shift in the nature of relationships between brands and their customers.
Simon Mainwaring

Change, Nature, Technology

On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction.
Stephen Harper

War, Finding, Mass

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