Destruction Quotes

In case you’re short on definitions, here’s one. Insanity: ‘Destroying the very things that sustain us.’ And if we’re so short-sighted so as to make such preposterous choices, then it’s not all that preposterous to believe that shortly our end will be in sight.

With its grace and carelessness, it seemed to annihilate a whole culture, a whole system of thought, as though [all] could be swept into a nothingness by a single splendid movement of the arm.

Study to show yourself qualified for God’s use.

Life was taking its vengeance on me, and that vengeance consisted merely in coming back, nothing more. Every case of madness involves something coming back. People who are possessed are not possessed by something that just comes but instead by something that comes back. Sometimes life comes back. If in me everything crumbled before that power, it is not because that power was itself necessarily an overwhelming one: it in fact had only to come, since it had already become too full-flowing a force to be controlled or contained - when it appeared it overran everything. And then, like after a flood, there floated a wardrobe, a person, a loose window, three suitcases. And that seemed like Hell to me, that destruction of layers and layers of human archaeology.

Ignorance can stifle learning, especially if the ignorant person believes that he or she is not ignorant.

I am the spirit that negates.And rightly so, for all that comes to beDeserves to perish wretchedly;'Twere better nothing would begin.Thus everything that that your terms, sin,Destruction, evil represent—That is my proper element.

Here they [the Jaredites] became a flourishing nation; but, giving way in time to internal dissensions, they divided into factions, which warred with one another until the people were totally destroyed (p. 15).

The lawmakers possess the authority that commands the obedience of the people.

Your anger towards ungodliness, towards injustice and the likes, will create a hunger in you to fulfill a particular purpose meant for you.

I am the rightful ruler of this world And now that I, too, have awakened, like my dragons, I have come to take back what is mine.

Easter is a marvelous affirmation of the genius of our design, but it is likewise the blunt acknowledgement that left to its own devices, the genius of our design will result in the destruction of our lives.

Anyone that will make a difference would have to put others ahead of them put others first.

I was a king for a while. I wasn't a very good one. I wanted all kinds of things. I wanted, well, you know. Power. Glory. To be feared. All that good stuff. But you know what? When the gaiaphage did it to me, when she made me cry and grovel and beg for mercy, I realized: There's no end to this for me. There's no end to the FAYZ. If we get out alive, there's still no end. And what happens to me out there in the world?" "No, you're wrong they can't blame you for everything that happened." He laughed. "Yeah, well, actually, they can. A king, warrior, whatever I was, I want to go out in a blaze of glory. I've risen as high as I'm ever going to. And if I survive, I'm just going to end up as prisoner number three-one-two-whatever. You coming to see me on visiting days." "But I will come see you. And I will wait for you." "No," he said firmly. "I get my big finish. And you get your life. Move on, Diana.

A man’s life is not qualified by how much wealth, power, pleasure or control he has, but by the values of godliness he possesses.

John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

The afflicted are basically the majority or only set of people who are insulted by injustice in society today.

If Darwin had seen in life what Dostoevsky saw, he would not have talked of the law of the preservation of species, but of its destruction.

Each individual needs to be pregnant with the seed of purpose.

It was time to bring out the world destructive weapons. It was now time to hit him where it would do the biggest damage, his pride.

If you have experienced injustice and insulted by the ungodliness, then you are a candidate to stand against the same.

Stone should last forever, but on that night I came to understand that a stone was only another form of dust. Streams of holy dust loomed in the air, and every breath included remnants of the Temple, so that we inhaled that which was meant to stand through eternity.

Your voice can be made loud to speak against ungodliness and injustice and not promote it.

All powers have two sides, the power to create and the power to destroy. We must recognize them both, but invest our gifts on the side of creation.

The only fear that builds character, is the fear of God.

If lawmakers in nations today refused to be bribed and be corrupted by some larger-than-life leaders, the people will be less insulted and molested by ungodliness and injustice.

As a result of this greed for power, the poor is not only silenced but also oppressed.

to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.

I can't destroy things so beautiful.""Time will destroy them if you don't. Time destroys everything. But if you destroy them, it will mean something.

If and when our civilization comes to ruin, the destructive agent will be Science; man's knowledge of science, applied to warfare, meaning slaughter not only of human bodies, but of human institutions, of all we have created through the centuries.

A society that has destroyed freedom and beauty must itself be destroyed.

Destruction is as valid an artistic statement as construction. Both statements echo the model of the society we live in. The only invalid art is utopian

in these shitty plastic days ...

Generational oppression begins when what is meant to be transferred to one offspring has been taken over by reason of oppression.

Note: The mind is a superb interment if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately, it is not so much that you use your mind wrongly -- you usually don't use it at all. It uses you. This is the disease. You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion. The instrument has taken you over.

Freedom to breed will bring ruin to all.

You have received a mandate not given by man, but given and empowered by God, to bring justice to the people and godliness on the earth.

It is not against reason, said the Englishman, to prefer the destruction of the world to a scratch on your finger – how much easier to understand the same price for the gash in your soul.

The architect and the father of war are covetousness of the leaders and of different interest groups fueling war.

There are several grave consequences that come with lack of knowledge, the paramount is destruction.

Knowledge acted upon makes all the difference, produces the different results we have in life.

The car rolled slowly along the deserted corniche, headlights cleaving its way through Beirut by night. In gentle swerves to avoid potholes, the Mercedes waltzed along a straight road in a dance of death. Sick palm trees and parched grass divided the tarred road of civilization. The sea alone was testimony to God’s beautiful creation. But in its belly, corpses, limbs, garbage, and ordnance mingled with a sea life on the verge of extinction.

If we start to complain, destruction is right at our door

Welcome to vampire-ville.” He chuckled.

If you are ready to make a difference and shine, then you must be ready to pay the price by laboring rightly with your mouth and with hands.

If you are frustrated with the elite of your society, do something about it.

Maybe we ought to consider that sometimes the most destructive outcomes in our lives are the ones that we’ve created.

We as human beings appear to be in the most adverse stages in our evolution. How can the Mother Earth survive when the souls of Her sons are tainted with avarice, and the very minds which shape Her fate are dominated by ego? Minds that are prone to paranoia and can no longer trust its brothers. Humanity is at a crossroads. A crossroads which speaks of either profound change or ultimate destruction.

the way to create art is to burn and destroyordinary concepts and to substitute themwith new truths that run down from the top of the headand out of the heart

Endurance over-goaded, stretched the hand of fraternity to sedition.

The digging continues ... Ground Zero it looks more and more like a construction site. Too much of the horror is gone. No fire. No smoke ... What was war becomes peace, becomes peaceful. But in the coil of my testicles there's an angry residue and in places I can't even name, places inside my throat and behind my chest, I'm sad, and sometimes worse than sad, less than sad, a cavity of empty.

God’s church need to declare war against ignorance.

When there is no personal responsibility in any society, there cannot be a responsible government.

...seeking refuge from a world in which huge and mysterious forces were let loose to destruction.

Once you are a warrior, you must live like one. You can't be afraid to fight against and destroy anything that fights against what is right.

Anything Freed with Guns will Go Back Eventually.

It is in our nature to destroy what we create. (Dr. Paul Kramer)

Guard yourself with a positive attitude, conviction, hope and fulfillment of your heart’s desire.

It seems when Opportunity knocks, Fate shows up to open the door.

The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.

When you keep hurting someone, you do one of three things. Either you fill them up with hate, and they destroy everything around them. Or you fill them up with sadness, and they destroy themselves. Or you fill them up with justice, and they try to destroy everything that's bad and cruel in this world. Me, I was the first kind of person.