828 Quotes About Destruction

It was as if some great ocean of destruction had rolled its unyielding tide through the city and then, upon its terrible recession, left behind only a shoreline of concrete sand and crushed humanity.

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

Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.

As I see the world, there's one element that's even more corrosive than missionaries: tourists. It's not that I feel above them in any way, but that the very places they patronize are destroyed by their affection.

In all these sights I achieve solace only in bringing forth trees, picturing them blooming like smoke from the roofs of gutted buildings, dreaming of what a fine and picturesque pile of rubble this city will someday make.

There is a self-destructive program running in the consciousness of humanity, and we must write a new program.

We were most amused by destroying what we'd taken.

Если допустить, что жизнь человеческая может управляться разумом, то уничтожится сама возможность жизни.

Destruction is essential to construction. If we want to build the new, we must be willing to let the old burn. [...]The building of the true and beautiful means the destruction of the good enough.