142 quotes found
“People who live according to the world’s standard are confused, and therefore get into all kinds of trouble that leads to destruction.”
“Do they see the lethal insanity of a race to the brink of oblivion, and then over the edge? Apparently not. If they did, surely they wouldn't be racing to begin with. Or is it a simple failure of i...”
“You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.”
“I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that's where they begin. Their great skills is their capacity to escalate.”
“It’s funny. From up here, the destruction seems to fade. Almost as if like people, in time, even the world can heal itself.”
“The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got into trouble, there was no way they could get free. There was no other people from whom they could get ...”
“Only after disaster can we be resurrected.”
“With its grace and carelessness, it seemed to annihilate a whole culture, a whole system of thought, as though [all] could be swept into a nothingness by a single splendid movement of the arm.”
“The tyrant is a child of PrideWho drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity,Until from his high crest headlongHe plummets to the dust of hope.”
“As Jess watched in numb horror, the man tore a page from the book and stuffed it into his mouth.”
“I was once, I am, and I will always be my children’s father. As to those individuals who have tried so desperately to destroy the fact, I offer forgiveness and seekreconciliation. As to the institu...”
“to love is to destroy and that to be loved is the one to be destroyed”
“I thought about the current contamination of beaches, raw sewage spilling into oceans and streams, the hole in the ozone, forests being stripped, the toxic-waste dumps, the merry plunder of mankind...”
“…one world’s poison might be another’s salvation”
“I think I’ll dismember the world and then I’ll dance in the wreckage.”
“She wanted to destroy something. The crash and clatter were what she wanted to hear.”
“One can always find hands for a work of destruction.”
“However much or little I had written, on a subsequent reading it always seemed so fundamentally flawed that I had to destroy it immediately and begin again.”
“By(e) pen, I've tried my hand at poetry; only to see how boring it is to me. That is, unless I get a chance to destroy each and every piece while doing it as I please.”
“Stone should last forever, but on that night I came to understand that a stone was only another form of dust. Streams of holy dust loomed in the air, and every breath included remnants of the Templ...”
