Best destruction & destroying Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“If we allow the destruction of the environment, we can see the terrorists have utterly won, and are destroying the future of our children and grandchildren. We must not let that happen.”

Ifs Children Happens Environment Destruction Our Children Terrorist Destroying Grandchildren Children And Grandchildren

Author:Jane Goodall

“Contrast is the intangible ingredient, the catalyst that makes life exciting. The human mind rejects monotony even to the point of destroying itself in madness, when monotony is forced upon it for too long. ... Contrast gives variety and interest, whether it be in the universe as a whole with its light and darkness, its ceaseless motion and constant change, its creation of worlds and destruction of others.”

“Destruction is always an attractive idea. My brother and I used to spend weeks making models of cities so that we could destroy them in 15 minutes. There's a fantastic joy in destroying something that you've meticulously built. Then you're free to build a new thing. Destruction and creation they're inseparable.”

Ideas Used Joy Cities Week Minutes Creation Brother Models Built Destruction Fantastic Attractive My Brother Destroying New Things Inseparable

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“Hearing, seeing and understanding each other, humanity from one end of the earth to the other now lives simultaneously, omnipresent like a god thanks to its own creative ability. And, thanks to its victory over space and time, it would now be splendidly united for all time, if it were not confused again and again by that fatal delusion which causes humankind to keep on destroying this grandiose unity and to destroy itself with the same resources which gave it power over the elements.”

“Animation had been used only for things like King Kong and the destruction of cities, which was very popular in the 1950s. I got tired of destroying cities. I destroyed New York, I destroyed San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, Rome, and Washington. I was looking for a new outlet, and I came across the Sinbad legends.”

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Author:Ray Harryhausen

“People love destroying mankind, for some strange reason. You make a movie about mankind's destruction, you're going to fill seats. People just love the idea. For a couple thousand years, we've been dreaming up how we're all going to disappear and fade away from this planet.”

People Years Ideas Reason Dream Mankind Strange Planets Couple Thousand Destruction Disappear Seats Destroying Fades Thousand Years Fade Away

Author:Michelle Rodriguez

“We will soon be living in an era in which we cannot guarantee survivability of any single point. However, we can still design systems in which system destruction requires the enemy to pay the price of destroying n of n stations. If n is made sufficiently large, it can be shown that highly survivable system structures can be built.”

Ifs Made Stills Pay Enemy Design Built Destruction Structure Eras Guarantees Stations Destroying Pay The Price

Author:Paul Baran

“For years we have heard of the role the Elders could play in saving the Constitution from total destruction. But how can the Elders be expected to save it if they have not studied it and are not sure if it is being destroyed or what is destroying it.”

Ifs Years Play Roles Heard Destruction Constitution Expected Destroyed Saving Not Sure Destroying Elders

Book:The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson

Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”

“Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.”

Source: The Words of Albert Schweitzer

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”

People Way Life Inspirational Political Understanding History Destruction Deny Deception Propaganda Manipulation Destroying Untruth Revisionism Rewriting History

Author:George Orwell

“You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.”

Way Destruction Extras Destroying Destroying Things

Book:Specials

Source: Specials

“We all are learning, modifying, or destroying ideas all the time. Rapid destruction of your ideas when the time is right is one of the most valuable qualities you can acquire. You must force yourself to consider arguments on the other side.”

Ideas Force Sides Change Quality Learning Argument Destruction Valuable Acquire Destroying Rapids Modifying

Author:Charlie Munger

“I still believe that man, not having been given the power of creation, does not posses the right of destroying the meanest creature that lives. The perogative of destruction belongs solely to the Creator of all that lives.”

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Book:Gandhi: Selected Writings

Source: Gandhi: Selected Writings

“Like all art forms, film is a media as powerful as weapons of mass destruction; the only difference is that war destroys and film inspires.”

Inspirational Art War Film Form Differences Powerful Media Inspire Weapons Mass Destruction Destroying Filmmaking Weapons Of Mass Destruction Mass Destruction Inspiring Movie

Author:Nicolas Winding Refn

“In addition to declaring and destroying all of its weapons of mass destruction, Iraq must end its support for terrorism. It must cease the persecution of its civilian population. It must stop all illicit trade outside the oil-for-food program. And it must release or account for all Gulf War personnel, including an American pilot, whose fate is still unknown. By taking these steps, and only by taking these steps, the Iraqi regime has an opportunity to avoid conflict. These steps would also change the nature of the Iraqi regime itself. America hopes the regime will make that choice.”

“WE ARE DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY - I mean our country itself, our land. This is a terrible thing to know, but it is not a reason for despair unless we decide to continue the destruction. If we decide to continue the destruction, that will not be because we have no other choice. This destruction is not necessary. It is not inevitable, except that by our submissiveness we make it so.”

Ifs Knows Mean Country Reason Choices Land Terrible Despair Destruction Our Country Inevitable Destroying Terrible Things

Book:The Way of Ignorance: And Other Essays

Source: The Way of Ignorance: And Other Essays

“You cannot seriously address the destruction of wilderness without addressing the society that is destroying it.”

Destruction Addresses Wilderness Destroying

Author:Judi Bari

“In Sherman's famous march through Georgia, his soldiers left a swath of death and destruction, destroying crops, burning homes and killing civilians. Sherman himself acknowledged that only 20% of the destruction inflicted by his invasion was inflicted on military objectives. Civilian non-combatants, essentially innocents, suffered 80% of the losses.”

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Author:John Pugsley

“The unchecked striving for more, for endless growth, is a dysfunction and a disease. It is the same dysfunction the cancerous cell manifests, whose only goal is to multiply itself, unaware that it is bringing about its own destruction by destroying the organism of which it is a part.”

Goal Growth Disease Destruction Strive Endless Cells Destroying Organisms Dysfunction

Book:A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

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