#destruction

She looked at the last thing she had written and she felt calm. Then she crossed the words out vehemently, scribbling until even the shape of the sentence was destroyed. ↗

— Helen Oyeyemi

#calm #destruction #scribbles #writing #anger

Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#destiny #destruction #family #folds #her

There is a point when the anguished soul finally despairs.  A moment in life when the heart, the will, even the spirit crumbles.  Some say that after much grief and drowning in tears, it is possible to pick up the pieces and carefully repair what was shattered. I say nay.  For the chains of despair have no key, and the soul destroyed by that monster can never hope to be unaffected.  There are things done that cannot be undone. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#destruction #grief #hopelessness #pain #richelle

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow. ↗

— Dorothea Brande

#bear #grow #only #seeds #self-destruction

We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandated of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them. ↗

— Carl Levin

#belief #building #common #common belief #delivering

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

— Ron Lewis

#disaster #extremists #hands #islamic #mass

The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison. ↗

— Karl Marx

#always #been #civilization #comparison #completely

White males are the most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today. ↗

— Robin Morgan

#environment #human #human life #life #males

The corporation is one of the great unheralded human inventions of destruction. It is a way to absolve from any personal liability a bunch of people. They form together in a massive ID and they do whatever they want. ↗

— Keith Olbermann

#any #bunch #corporation #destruction #form

And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#act #cold #cold war #destruction #during