Definition of Destruction

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Destruction

The act of destroying; a tearing down; a bringing to naught; subversion; demolition; ruin; slaying; devastation.

The state of being destroyed, demolished, ruined, slain, or devastated.

A destroying agency; a cause of ruin or of devastation; a destroyer.

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Destruction Quotations

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

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

Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.
Warren Buffett

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?
Mohandas Gandhi

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.
Mohandas Gandhi

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

We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction.
Edward Kennedy

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

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

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

Destruction Translations

destruction in Dutch is vernietiging
destruction in Italian is devastazione, distruzione, annientamento
destruction in Latin is exitium, eversio, perditio

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