Quotes with destruction

  • The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii, like the metamorphosis of a nymph into a tree, has arrested us in an accustomed movement.
  • The flame from the angel's sword in the garden of Eden has been catalyzed into the atom bomb; God's thunderbolt became blunted, so man's thunderbolt has become the steel star of destruction.
  • Modern man's capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity's capacity for reconstruction. The powerful technological agents we have unleashed against the environment include many of the agents we require for its reconstruction.
  • All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.
  • The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.
  • History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it.
  • 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.
  • If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program.
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  • Janet Frame ''For your own good'' is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.
    Janet Frame
    New Zealand author (1924 - 2004)
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  • Joseph Addison Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch 'Frankenstein' was all about the idea that, through electricity and the destruction of night, man creating light and darkness, we took on god-like powers and then abused them like gods, and we are only men. That's a story about man making a man in his own image. The inversion of natural order.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Bobby Seale A people who have suffered so much for so long at hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.... the black communities of America must rise up as one man to halt the progression of a trend that leads inevitably to their total destruction.
    Bobby Seale
    American political activist (1936 - )
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  • Joseph Conrad A word carries far - very far - deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • William Blake All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Lenny Bruce All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.
    Lenny Bruce
    American Comedian (1925 - 1966)
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  • Barbara Amiel All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.
    Barbara Amiel
    British journalist, writer, and socialite (1940 - )
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  • Bret Michaels Any band that is out there chasing it is doing more destruction to music then someone who is out there playing what they truly feel.
    Bret Michaels
    American singer-songwriter, musician and actor (1963 - )
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  • Simone Weil Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation... Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
    Address to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission (14 June 1946)
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu But so far, you know who's been violating the nuclear nonproliferation pact day and night? Those who signed it. Iran, Iraq, Libya and Iran violates it while calling for Israel's destruction and racing to develop atomic weapons to that end.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • W. E. B. Du Bois Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction.
    W. E. B. Du Bois
    American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist and writer (1868 - 1963)
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  • Ann Druyan Carl took on the military-industrial complex. He campaigned around the world for an end to the production of weapons of mass destruction. To him it was a perversion of science.
    Ann Druyan
    American writer (1949 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon Chemical weapons simply have no place in the 21st century. Progress in this vital area will help generate momentum to meet our goal of eliminating all weapons of mass destruction.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Benjamin Tucker Defence was an afterthought, prompted by necessity; and its introduction as a State function, though effected doubtless with a view to the strengthening of the State, was really and in principle the initiation of the State's destruction.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Marquis de Sade Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Don DeLillo Ecology is boring for the same reason that destruction is fun.
    Don DeLillo
    American Author (1936 - )
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  • Sir Richard Steele Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
    Sir Richard Steele
    British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor (1672 - 1729)
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