Destruction quotes

Discover powerful quotes on the sheer force of destruction, capturing its transformative nature, raw power, and unforeseen consequences. Explore its intricate depths and find profound wisdom in the face of chaos.

We’re talking about the destruction of our world as we know it.

- Lucas Sinclair

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

- Peter D. Mitchell

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

- George W. Bush

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

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

The passion for destruction is also a creative passion.

- Mikhail Bakunin

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

- Donella Meadows

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.

- Bob Graham

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.

- Curtis Lemay

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

- Barbara Amiel

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.

- E. O. Wilson

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.

- Jay Rockefeller

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

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.

- Michael McCaul

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

- Elie Wiesel

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

- Owen D. Young

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.

- Peter DeFazio

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

- Ron Lewis

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.

- Jon Stewart

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.

- Andrew Greeley

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.

- William J. Clinton

Destruction was effected after visitation, for visitation always precedes.

- Emanuel Swedenborg

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.

- Mike Fitzpatrick

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.

- Mortimer Zuckerman

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

- Simone Weil

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.

- Mohandas Gandhi

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

- George W. Bush

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

- Aesop

He who fears is literally delivered to destruction.

- Howard Thurman

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

- Tony Blair

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).

- Frank Gaffney