Destruction Quotes

"War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity; it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it" "We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction" "Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes" "The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction" "If I am not actively creating something, then I am probably actively destroying something" "The angel would like to stay awaken the dead and make whole what has been smashed But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such a violence that the angel can no longer close them" "Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy." "War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend." "One of the malfunctions of literary criticism is that it tends to create clothing patterns and then cut these patterns up to create garments. But that’s destroyed the books." "The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes" "The difference between passion and addiction is that between a divine spark and a flame that incinerates" "The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government" "You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture." "The eyes of fire, the nostrils of air, the mouth of war" "Extravagance is its own destruction."