Quotes on Destruction

Author: Aesop

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.

Author: Aesop

All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.

Author: Barbara Amiel

The passion for destruction is also a creative passion.

Author: Mikhail Bakunin

Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.

Author: Walter Benjamin

The threat from Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction - chemical, biological, potentially nuclear weapons capability - that threat is real.

Author: Tony Blair

The Iraqis are not threatened by the Turks or by the Iranians or by the Saudis and they tell me that these are not weapons of mass destruction, they are weapons of self-destruction.

Author: Hans Blix

As horrific as this impact has been on my constituents, it is only a small part of the overwhelming destruction covering 90,000 square miles of the Gulf Coast.

Author: Jo Bonner

Saddam Hussein is a homicidal dictator who is addicted to weapons of mass destruction.

Author: George Bush

Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction.

Author: George Bush

We went into Iraq because Iraq posed a threat to the stability of the region and was engaged in the process of trying to develop weapons of mass destruction and had links to terrorists.

Author: Frank Carlucci

There is little doubt that Iran is on a mission to rebuild its nuclear weapons and use that capability to wreak havoc and destruction on Israel and others throughout the world.

Author: Russ Carnahan

One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line.

Author: William Clinton

What good is a writer if he can't destroy literature? And us... what good are we if we don't help as much as we can in that destruction?

Author: Julio Cortazar

To the contrary, I believe the U.S. military has already done all that has been asked of them. Saddam Hussein is on trial. The threat from alleged weapons of mass destruction programs in Iraq has been neutralized.

Author: Peter DeFazio

There's always some amount of gradual, slow burning destruction over the course of partying.

Author: Gavin DeGraw

There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them.

Author: Friedrich Durrenmatt

There's not really much destruction in New York besides the weather and it's a natural force so it's not like any destruction. But LA gets leveled (laughs). That's my comment to Hollywood.

Author: Roland Emmerich

I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view.

Author: Dan Farmer

I'm not concerned about weapons of mass destruction.

Author: Douglas Feith

Terrorists have already attacked our Nation once. There is every reason to believe that they will try again - possibly with a weapon of mass destruction; a weapon that could be smuggled into our ports.

Author: Mike Fitzpatrick

One of the most important post-9/11 efforts made to counter terrorism and the spread of weapons of mass destruction is President Bush's Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI).

Author: Frank Gaffney

The more we are consuming oil that either comes from places that are bent on our destruction or helping those who are... the more we are enabling those who are trying to kill us.

Author: Frank Gaffney

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.

Author: Mohandas Gandhi

It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction.

Author: Mikhail Gorbachev

We are in possession of what I think to be compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein has, and has had for a number of years, a developing capacity for the production and storage of weapons of mass destruction.

Author: Bob Graham

Note the three most important Cabinet positions. Rice said that it was better to find the weapons of mass destruction than to see a mushroom cloud.

Author: Andrew Greeley

Within minutes of the attack, your Department of Public Safety mobilized its Operations Center, headed by a national expert on weapons of mass destruction.

Author: Jane Hull

It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.

Author: David Hume

I believe our biggest issue is the same biggest issue that the whole world is facing, and that's habitat destruction.

Author: Steve Irwin

We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction.

Author: Edward Kennedy

Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.

Author: Hans Kung

That's the reason some schools of thinking don't rule out a destruction of the Chinese military potential before the situation grows worse than it is today. It's bad enough now.

Author: Curtis Lemay

Weapons of mass destruction in the hands of Islamic extremists will be a disaster for the world.

Author: Ron Lewis

It sets its face rightfully against the doctrines of the Anarchist and the Communist, who seek to solve the social problems not by patient endeavor, but by brutal destruction.

Author: Henry Lodge

The President of Iran has called for the destruction of Israel and the West and has even denied the holocaust took place. Iran and its terrorist arm Hezbollah are responsible for the current conflicts between Israel and Lebanon.

Author: Michael McCaul

You should issue demerits for tree cutting or the destruction of humus.

Author: Donella Meadows

We will fight race destruction through thick and thin and never CO exist voluntarily with it.

Author: Tom Metzger

Moreover, in the experimental sciences, the scientific fraternity must test a new theory to destruction, if possible.

Author: Peter Mitchell

Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.

Author: Thomas Moore

Sun-bleached bones were most wonderful against the blue - that blue that will always be there as it is now after all man's destruction is finished.

Author: Georgia O'Keeffe

We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction.

Author: Lester Pearson

For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.

Author: Marcus Quintilian

There were no weapons of mass destruction and Saddam Hussein was not involved in the September 11th attack.

Author: Charles Rangel

The politicians in this world... have at their command weapons of mass destruction far more complex than their own thinking processes.

Author: Charley Reese

We were told by the president that we had no alternative but to go into Iraq because of the threat that Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction posed, but to date, these weapons have not been found.

Author: Jay Rockefeller

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Author: Jean-Paul Sartre

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

Author: Richard Steele

We have it. The smoking gun. The evidence. The potential weapon of mass destruction we have been looking for as our pretext of invading Iraq. There's just one problem - it's in North Korea.

Author: Jon Stewart

Destruction was effected after visitation, for visitation always precedes.

Author: Emanuel Swedenborg

China is one of the world's greatest proliferators of weapons of mass destruction to these rogue nations.

Author: Fred Thompson

He who fears is literally delivered to destruction.

Author: Howard Thurman

The British seizure of Hongkong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the British Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium.

Author: Robert Trout

Defence was an afterthought, prompted by necessity; and its introduction as a State function, though effected doubtless with a view to the strengthening of the State, was really and in principle the initiation of the State's destruction.

Author: Benjamin Tucker

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

Author: Simone Weil

Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.

Author: Rebecca West

A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.

Author: Elie Wiesel

The liberation of Iraq was part of a broader effort to seriously confront the greatest threat to world security: rogue states capable of obtaining long range weapons of mass destruction.

Author: Armstrong Williams

The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.

Author: E. Wilson

There are house demolitions and destruction all over the West Bank and Gaza. Just yesterday in Gaza they demolished three towers under the pretext that they were built close to a settlement.

Author: Ahmed Yassin

Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction.

Author: Owen Young

Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction of some 300,000 acres of wetlands. This amounted to 30 miles of marshlands.

Author: Mortimer Zuckerman