To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day. Read Summary
I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots. Read Summary
People with targets and jobs dependent upon meeting them will probably meet the targets - even if they have to destroy the enterprise to do it. Read Summary
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them. Read Summary
The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. Read Summary
Since Auschwitz, we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima, we know what is at stake. Read Summary
When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide. Read Summary
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. Read Summary
Civilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in terms of millions of years and life will resume little by little. The cosmos operates for us very urgently, but geological time is different. Read Summary
We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet. Read Summary
This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path. Read Summary
Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man. Read Summary
Yesterday, we fought wars which destroyed cities. Today, we are concerned with avoiding a war which will destroy the earth. We can adapt atomic energy to produce electricity and move ships, but can we control its use in anger? Read Summary
After Hiroshima was bombed, I saw a photograph of the side of a house with the shadows of the people who had lived there burned into the wall from the intensity of the bomb. The people were gone, but their shadows remained. Read Summary
Every moment there is creation, every moment destruction. There is no absolute creation, no absolute destruction. Both are movement, and that is eternal. Read Summary
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. Read Summary
To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture. Read Summary
The Zionists indeed learnt well from the Nazis. So well that it seems that their morally repugnant treatment of the Palestinians, and their attempts to destroy Palestinian society within Israel and the occupied territories, reveals them as basically Nazis with beards and black hats. Read Summary
Israel is following policies which maximise its security threats... policies which choose expansion over security... policies which lead to their moral degradation, their isolation, their delegitimation, as they call it now, and very likely ultimate destruction. That's not impossible. Read Summary
Puppet Papademos is in place, and as Athens caught fire on Sunday night he rather took my breath away - he said violence and destruction have no place in a democratic country. Read Summary