#destruction

She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#family #dreams

It was time to bring out the world destructive weapons. It was now time to hit him where it would do the biggest damage, his pride. ↗

— Ottilie Weber

#inner-self #pride #revenge #strength #weapons

Save your skin from the corrosive acids from the mouths of toxic people. Someone who just helped you to speak evil about another person can later help another person to speak evil about you. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#bad #corrosive #destroyers #destruction #detractors

The urge to destroy is also a creative urge. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#creativity #destroy #destruction #art

The ants are bad" The Bear "the ants?"Tahir "Do not be fooled. They look very small, so harm you don't think of then at all. Then years. Then one day you wake up, and your home has fallen down." Osman. ↗

— Tahir Shah

#destruction #ignorance #home

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 imagination? One doesn't like to think such a rudimentary failing could bring about the end, yet... ↗

— Stephen King

#folly #imagination #war #imagination

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent. ↗

— George Orwell

#labour #pacifism #peace #war #intelligence

The power to lead is the power to mislead, and the power to mislead is the power to destroy. ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#destruction #leadership #responsibility #leadership

In a time of destruction, create something. ↗

— Maxine Hong Kingston

#destruction #hope #life #life

Only after disaster can we be resurrected. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#life #loss #resurrection #life