#destruction

If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#inspirational #truth #inspirational

Have any of our friends got off the Island with their families, or what must they submit to? Despotism or destruction, I fear, is their fate. ↗

— William Floyd

#despotism #destruction #families #fate #fear

I had to escape the destruction of my father's bankruptcy and all that difficulty. ↗

— Brendan Coyle

#destruction #difficulty #escape #father #had

Alfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirable tasks. They are also a means to terrible destruction in the hands of the great criminals who lead peoples to war. ↗

— Pierre Curie

#alfred #also #characteristic #criminals #destruction

Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in destruction. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#both #destruction #great #neither #nor

Anyone who considers using a weapon of mass destruction against the United States or its allies must first consider the consequences... We would not specify in advance what our response would be, but it would be both overwhelming and devastating. ↗

— William J. Perry

#against #allies #anyone #both #consequences

All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#called #collateral #damage #destruction #happens

There are house demolitions and destruction all over the West Bank and Gaza. Just yesterday in Gaza they demolished three towers under the pretext that they were built close to a settlement. ↗

— Ahmed Yassin

#built #close #demolished #destruction #gaza

Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction. ↗

— Owen D. Young

#emotions #human #human emotions #inflamed #markets

Whatever is destroyed, the act of destruction does not vary much. Beauty if vapour from the pit of death. ↗

— J. A. Baker

#death #destruction #beauty