Quotes about Destruction
One of the consequences of covetousness is that it destroys the capacity to discern sufficiency. It distorts our thinking to the point where: Enough is never enough.
— James MacDonald
Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction.
— Aesop
Pride goes before destruction.
— Aesop
We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.
— Aesop
Man has no choice but to love. For when he does not, he finds his alternatives lie in loneliness, destruction, and despair.
— Leo Buscaglia
There can be no profit in the making or selling of things to be destroyed in war. Men may think that they have such profit, but in the end the profit will turn out to be a loss.
— Alexander Hamilton
Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Money is needed to bring about many good things but when your heart is attached, it destroys you
— Pope Francis
By its very nature, hate destroys and tears down; by its very nature, love creates and builds up.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The tragic side of many architectural enterprises is that they destroy natural beauties which are a priceless possession and cannot be replaced.
— Helen Keller
Nature abhors annihilation.
— Cicero
My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men will find that in one instant, whole armies can be utterly destroyed, they surely will abide by golden peace.
— Alfred Nobel