destruction Quotes

Goods of national destruction are imported: alcohol, tobacco, videotapes, condoms, cars.

Environmental destruction is not an accident of capitalism but a direct consequence of its logic.

Some people blame us for the destruction in Lebanon. I ask them: Who is dropping the bombs? Who is attacking us? It is Israel!

European explorers... brought with them a wave of destruction to tribal peoples. They committed violence, stole land, and spread disease.

Prime Minister Menachem Begin ordered the destruction of an Iraqi nuclear reactor near Baghdad in 1981. This action delayed an Iraqi bomb by at least 15 years. The whole world condemned Israel - only to realize later how farsighted it had been.

After the destruction of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the shutdown of much of New York City by Sandy in 2012, and now the devastation wrought on Texas by Harvey, the U.S. can and should do better.

Here's the rub: Destruction is essential to construction. If we want to build the new, we must be willing to let the old burn. We must be committed to holding on to nothing but the truth.

The building of the true and beautiful means the destruction of the good enough.

Hillary Clinton and the Democrat Party have overseen the destruction of one of the greatest systems of health care in the world.

Obamacare ruined and destroyed or set in motion the ruination and destruction of the American health care system.

I think there are some mass destruction capabilities that are still inside Iraq. I think there\'s some weapons that have been shipped over the border to Syria. But I don\'t think we\'re going to find that their capabilities provided the imminent threat that many feared in this country. So I think it\'s going to be a tough search, but I think there\'s stuff there.

The status quo leads to self-destruction.

Sea level rise and destruction of water resources as glaciers melt alone may have horrendous human consequences.

There is good reason to believe that we have already entered the Sixth Extinction, a period of destruction of species on a massive scale, comparable to the Fifth Extinction 65 million years ago, when three-quarters of the species on earth were destroyed, apparently by a huge asteroid.

The communists were mainly responsible for the destruction of the Spanish anarchists. Not just in Catalonia - the communist armies mainly destroyed the collectives elsewhere.

Destruction of the environment is not only rational; it\'s exactly what you\'re taught to do in college.

Very urgent measures need to be taken, and without much delay, in dealing with the ongoing destruction of the environment.

Hamas is regularly described as \'Iranian-backed Hamas, which is dedicated to the destruction of Israel.\' One will be hard put to find something like \'democratically elected Hamas, which has long been calling for a two-state settlement in accord with the international consensus\'-blocked for over 30 years by the US and Israel. All true, but not a useful contribution to the Party Line, hence dispensable.

If a great destruction occurs in Bangkok, then the country as a whole is also destroyed. In such a case, what is the point of anyone feeling proud to be the winner, when standing on a pile of ruins and rubble?

Unfortunately, the diplomatic destruction Netanyahu is causing will lead Israel to lose its Jewish majority and become a binational state. This unfortunate fact is something no law can hide.

I knew Jim was going down, but was very pleased that somehow, despite his self-destruction, when we rehearsed, wrote songs and recorded, he showed up. He pulled it together.

Creativity and self-destruction sometimes come in the same package.

The real issue of dealing with proliferation of weapons of mass destruction: nuclear, chemical or biological is: What is your tolerance for risk? And my tolerance for risk for WMD proliferation is pretty close to zero. Because otherwise, we and our allies are at the mercy of regimes like Ahmadinejad and the mullahs in Tehran, or Kim Jong Il and the Hitler-in-the-bunker mentality in Pyongyang, or others who don\'t share our calculus on the value of human life.

The Gross National Product includes the destruction of the redwoods and the death of Lake Superior. It grows with the production of napalm and missiles and nuclear warheads... It includes... the broadcasting of television programs which glorify violence to sell goods to our children.

Weapons of mass destruction violate more than individual lives - they cross international borders and jeopardize all people. They also drain resources that could be used instead for medicines, schools and other life-saving supplies. We must come together with even greater determination to prevent a WMD nightmare.

The possibility that terrorist groups could obtain weapons of mass destruction should not be dismissed as a fiction. This is a horrific threat the international community should take seriously. As long as these weapons exist, so, too, does the risk of their use - by accident or design.

We can halt the destruction of the world\'s rainforests - and even restore parts of them - in order to ensure that the forests do what they are so good at - in other words, storing carbon naturally.

The planet Earth, though not threatened with destruction by man-made global warming, is by no means indestructible. There are many unpredictable events within our solar system, and still more outside it, that could make Earth uninhabitable by humans.

The destruction that we have wreaked in the various theaters in which we\'ve been engaged is really quite astonishing. But again, lethality, destruction, killing doesn\'t seem to achieve our objectives. So, my own sense is that a lack of lethality does not define the core problem.

I think it\'s very natural that given the enormous destruction in Ukraine and huge rebuilding costs that they will face, that we will look to Russia to help pay at least a portion of the price that will be involved.