destruction quotes

• Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction. (Pablo Picasso) [creation/destruction]
• It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction. (Mikhail Gorbachev) [destruction]
• Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall. (Joseph Addison) [pride/destruction/spirit]
• Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation. (Walter Benjamin) [destruction]
• All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage. (William Blake) [destruction/present/rage]
• A word carries far -- very far -- deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space. (Joseph Conrad) [destruction/time]
• To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster! (Denis Diderot) [attempt/destruction/order/desire]
• The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads to silence, must be revisited: but with irony, not innocently. I think of the postmodern attitude as that of a man who loves a very cultivated woman and knows he cannot say to her, I love you madly, because he knows that she knows (and that she knows that he knows) that these words have already been written by Barbara Cartland. Still, there is a solution. He can say, As Barbara Cartland would put it, I love you madly. (Umberto Eco) [past/destruction/silence/irony]
• For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction. (Janet Frame) [argument/willpower/destruction]
• The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings. (William Hazlitt) [pain/more/destruction]
• The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings. (William Hazlitt) [pain/more/destruction]
• The greatest tragedy in America is not the destruction of our natural resources, though that tragedy is great. The truly great tragedy is the destruction of our human resources by our failure to fully utilize our abilities, which means that most men and women go to their graves with their music still in them. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr) [america/destruction/destruction/human]
• Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction. (Pablo Picasso) [creation/destruction]
• To eat is to appropriate by destruction. (Jean-Paul Sartre) [destruction]
• The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes. (Simone Weil) [destruction/past]
• Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction. (Simone Weil) [art/human/destruction]
• Our state's honey industry has suffered on several fronts in recent years, ... In addition to the destruction of honeybee colonies caused by mites and hurricanes, the flood of cheap imported honey has pushed our state's honey producers and packers to the brink of economic disaster. (Charles Bronson) [destruction]
• Liberals should not overplay this weapons of mass destruction card, because you want me to tell you the truth? Most of us are not going to care if they don't find these weapons of mass destruction. It's enough for a lot of us to see those kids smiling on that street again. (Dennis Miller) [weapons/destruction/care/find]
• “It was just 60 years ago that another leader, democratically elected in a European country, called [for] the destruction of a whole people,” (Adolf Hitler) [leader/destruction]
• “I send my prayers and my love to the hurricane victims, and their families. I am so saddened by the destruction and despair. I encourage everyone to assist in this great time of need.” (Serena Williams) [love/destruction/time]
• herb is the healing of a nation, alcohal is the destruction (Bob Marley) [destruction]
• An agency operative on weapons of mass destruction. (Robert Novak) [weapons/destruction]
• It’s very important that we all send Saddam Hussein a message that is resolute, is firm and is united, … He must be firmly told that he is not going to be permitted to continue to build weapons of mass destruction, particularly biological and chemical weapons. (Robin Cook) [weapons/destruction/weapons]
• Tony did not try to argue me out of the view that Saddam did not have real weapons of mass destruction that were designed for strategic use against city populations and capable of being delivered with reliability over long distances (Robin Cook) [weapons/destruction/being/reliability]
• We were told there were weapons of mass destruction ready for firing in 45 minutes. We now can’t find any weapons of mass destruction ready to be fired in 45 minutes or any other period of time. (Robin Cook) [weapons/destruction/find/weapons]
• I feel like I'm witnessing the systematic destruction of a people's ability to survive. It's horrifying. (Rachel Corrie) [destruction/ability]
• “I didn't see the weapons of mass destruction at the time, I didn't think there was an imminent threat from Saddam Hussein.” (Barack Obama) [weapons/destruction/time/think]
• “These shells behind us, these casings, are a testimony to the decades that have been spent creating weapons of destruction, ... The hopes in the programs that have been discussed today are that we can start using our resources to dismantle these arms and create a more peaceful and safe future for the people of Ukraine and for people all around the world.” (Barack Obama) [weapons/destruction/more/future]
• Iran, Libya and Syria are irresponsible states, which must be disarmed of weapons of mass destruction, and a successful American move in Iraq as a model will make that easier to achieve. (Ariel Sharon) [weapons/destruction/willpower]

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