Destruction Quotes

• Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Design, Firsts

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• There is no cruelty so inexorable and unrelenting as that which proceeds from a bigoted and presumptuous supposition of doing service to God. The victim of the fanatical persecutor will find that the stronger the motives he can urge for mercy are, the weaker will be his chance for obtaining it, for the merit of his destruction will be supposed to rise in value in proportion as it is effected at the expense of every feeling both of justice and of humanity.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Justice, Feelings, Humanity

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.128

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• The great wilds of our country, once held to be boundless and inexhaustible, are being rapidly invaded and overrun in every direction, and everything destructible in them is being destroyed. How far destruction may go it is not easy to guess. Every landscape, low and high, seems doomed to be trampled and harried. Even the sky is not safe from scath-blurred and blackened whole summers together with the smoke of fires that devour the woods.

  John Muir

  Summer, Country, Sky

  John Muir (1918). “The Writings of John Muir: Steep trails”

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• There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

  Dorothea Brande

  Self, Novelists, Growing

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.130, Lulu.com

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

  Elie Wiesel

  Men, Genocide, Annihilation

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

  Thomas Jefferson

  Happiness, Government, Political

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.8, Modern Library

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• Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.

  Marquis de Sade

  Nature, Reality, Creation

  Marquis de Sade “Philosophy in the Bedroom: An Erotic Novel”, Library of Alexandria

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• Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Integrity, Selfish, Creativity

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• Destruction is the work of an afternoon. Creation is the work of a lifetime.

  Kamahl

  Afternoon, Lifetime, Creation

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• Fear is a weapon of mass destruction.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Mass Destruction, Weapons, Mass

  "Edwards praises Kerry as 'strong' and 'decisive'", www.cnn.com. July 29, 2004.

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

  Richard Steele

  Fire, Gossip, Tongue

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• Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

  Aesop

  Fear, Conceited, Self

  Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.23, Pelekanos Books

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• Pride goes before destruction.

  Aesop

  Pride

  Aesop (2016). “Aesop's Fables - Complete Collection”, p.26, Lulu.com

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• The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

  George Orwell

  Inspirational, Life, People

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• Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction

  John Owen

  Cutting, Exercise, Men

  John Owen, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “Overcoming Temptation and Sin”, Lulu.com

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• He who fears is literally delivered to destruction.

  Howard Thurman

  Howard Thurman (2012). “Jesus and the Disinherited”, p.51, Beacon Press

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• Moreover, in the experimental sciences, the scientific fraternity must test a new theory to destruction, if possible.

  Peter D. Mitchell

  Tests, Fraternity, Theory

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• Saddam Hussein has openly admitted to the rest of the world that he had weapons of mass destruction. He used those weapons to kill his own people.

  Saxby Chambliss

  Mass Destruction, People, World

  "Questions surround WMD hunt" by David Ensor, www.cnn.com. June 18, 2003.

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• Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

  Simone Weil

  Art, Two, Effort

  Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.42, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.

  E. T. A. Hoffmann

  Creating, Goes On, Useless

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• 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.

  William J. Clinton

  Patriotic, Wmd, Mass Destruction

  "Text Of Clinton Statement On Iraq", www.cnn.com. February 17, 1998.

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• 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

  Courage, Peace, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.81, A&C Black

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• 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

  Inspirational, Peace, War

  Non-Violence in Peace and War (1942) vol. 1, ch. 142

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• Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power.

  Al Gore

  Wmd, Mass Destruction, Iraq

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• When they show the destruction of society on color TV, I want to be able to look out over Los Angeles and make sure they get it right.

  Phil Ochs

  Color, Tvs, Looks

  Liner notes for compilation album "The Broadside Tapes 1" by Phil Ochs, 1989.

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