Quotes about Destruction
Man has no choice but to love. For when he does not, he finds his alternatives lie in loneliness, destruction and despair.
— Leo Buscaglia
There can be no profit in the making or selling of things to be destroyed in war. Men may think that they have such profit, but in the end the profit will turn out to be a loss.
— Alexander Hamilton
Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.
— Henry Ward Beecher
By its very nature, hate destroys and tears down; by its very nature, love creates and builds up.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The tragic side of many architectural enterprises is that they destroy natural beauties which are a priceless possession and cannot be replaced.
— Helen Keller
Nature abhors annihilation.
— Cicero
My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men will find that in one instant, whole armies can be utterly destroyed, they surely will abide by golden peace.
— Alfred Nobel
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Man has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
— Ayn Rand
He [Christ] came to bring peace, to be sure, but the peace that He came to bring must be built upon the complete destruction of the power of darkness.
— Cornelius Van Til
I think, for me, nuclear is just the power, the devastation is very important to me.
— Donald Trump