#destruction

What good is a writer if he can't destroy literature? And us... what good are we if we don't help as much as we can in that destruction? ↗

— Julio Cortazar

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Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative force in civilization, a process began which was almost mechanical. ↗

— Ralph A. Cram

#been #began #beginning #civilization #class

The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#armies #camped #destruction #entered #every

There's a real sense of fighting and destruction in our DNA that we don't get in touch with. ↗

— Joel Edgerton

#dna #fighting #get #our #real

For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction. ↗

— Janet Frame

#argument #destruction #eventually #good #his

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight. ↗

— Marilyn French

#ancient greeks #delusion #even #greeks #insanity

The sovereign state has in our times become a lethal danger to human civilization because technical developments enable it to employ an infinite number and variety of means of destruction. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

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No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic. ↗

— James Larkin

#british empire #construction #destruction #empire #england

Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#contribute #destruction #forces #side #social

The German experience, as you can see, did move me very much. Seeing that terrible destruction and seeing the miserable state of the people, how they had been beaten down by the war through no fault of their own probably. ↗

— James Laughlin

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