Quotes about Destruction
Ignorance of God is the source of all wickedness and confusion among men. From this ignorance arouse that flood of abominations which God swept away in Noah's day. The sins of Sodom and Gomorrah were burned up with fire from heaven. In short, all the rage, blood, confusion, desolations, cruelties, oppressions and disasters which fill the world to this day, by which the souls of men have been swept into eternal destruction, have all arisen from the ignorance of God.
— John Owen
Fears, even the most basic ones, can totally destroy our ambitions. Fear, if left unchecked, can destroy our lives. Fear is one of the many enemies lurking inside us.
— Jim Rohn
The fear of criticism is at the bottom of the destruction of most ideas which never reach the planning and action stage.
— Napoleon Hill
The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good government.
— Thomas Jefferson
Now think of the things which goad man into destroying man: they are hope, envy, hatred, fear and contempt.
— Marcus Aurelius
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
— Margaret Mead
We are affirming our trust that creation means well within us all, and that whatever painful growth and change may lie ahead, it is leading us to Life, not destruction.
— Margaret Silf
Hatred is like fire-it makes even light rubbish deadly.
— George Eliot
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
— Albert Einstein
War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
— Martin Luther
And Dan. 8:25 also writes concerning the Antichrist that he will kill the majority of people not through poverty but through an abundance of everything.
— Martin Luther
And the way Christ treats the works of Satan, so Satan attempts to destroy the works of Christ, such as life, righteousness, joy, and the like.
— Martin Luther