828 Quotes About Destruction

All wars result in the ruthless destruction of human life. Warfare evidences our collective degradation. War eviscerates cities and towns. The mangled bodies of children, women, elderly citizens, and youthful soldiers contrast sharply with the pomp of warfare.

I thought about how many elements it took to create the simplest of things - a pink sky an unusually perfect day, a happy family, a deep friendship, a moment of pure delight. I wondered, too, what it took to undo these things. It seemed to me that undoing something was far easier than creating it.

Tearing things apart (is) a powerful aspect of human nature.

That is how the European tribes operate, she said, If they can't control it, they destroy it.

On comprenait que les hommes pourraient être aussi efficaces que Dieu dans d'autres domaines que la destruction.

No victory, no conquest justified a single death, a man starved, frozen, lacerated, a single orphaned child. All war wanted was itself.

Still, this was broken stone. It was not a human life.

There is, in the act of destruction, a beauty which we try to deny, and a joy which we cannot. Children build to knock down, and though we may grow around it, that need runs in is, deeper than our blood.

كيف للموت أن يزور ذلك الجمال، وكيف للطبيعة أن تقرر تدمير إحدى جواهرها الفريدة ما لم تكن قوة عمياء بلا وعي ولا مشاعر.