Quotes of: Total-destruction Keyword

It is my assertion, however, that the project of remaking humanity and defining identity has been at the core of this century, and that much of this project was characterized by a tremendous destructive urge followed by a long and as yet uncompleted ...

Mirrors of Destruction: War, Genocide, and Modern Identity

It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth.

Helen Garner

She had underestimated the human capacity for self-destruction.

Mort[e]

But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction.

Joseph Rotblat

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

Dorothea Brande

The face of "evil" is always the face of total need. A dope fiend is a man in total need of dope. Beyond a certain frequency need knows absolutely no limit or control. In the words of total need: "Wouldn't you?" Yes you would. You would lie, cheat, i...

Naked Lunch

The quickest path to self-destruction is to push away the people you love.

Pieces of You

Many call this process 'the destruction of nature.' But it's not really destruction, it's change. Nature cannot be destroyed.

Unknown

Don't underestimate the power of a guilty mind. Never underestimate self-shame and self-destruction.

Hellbound

The reason that a good citizen does not use such destructive means to become wealthier is that, if everyone did so, we would all become poorer from the mutual destructiveness.

Richard Stallman

Destruction makes people go away so,if you hide inside destruction,you're safe

Emma Abdullah

Destruction is a man's will, Nevertheless Prevention is also a man's will, Its a man's choice to choose between Destruction and Prevention. :)

Babu Rajan

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

Douglas William Jerrold

In relation to the natural world, the pleasure of Americans can be destructive in the same way that their work has already proved to be. It is not, certainly, a conscious destructiveness. But in that very unconsciousness it becomes an aspect of one o...

The Long-Legged House

Self-destruction would be a brief, almost autoerotic free-fall into a great velvet darkness

The Cannibal Within

Sarcasm, as it turned out--even when it was instinctive and quick--cut into the time one had to manufacture one's escape.

The Destruction of the Books

Life is a deep and contemplative story stuck on repeat. love, loss, self-destruction, self-discovery

Gray

Efficient self-destruction is what it is. Clean and neat. Almost surgical in its precision.

Later That Night

But even Superman can be broken. Self-destruction, too, is a kind of kryptonite.

Fun Dip & Other Misfortunes

I know I have a very self-destructive tendency since my mother died, I have got to be honest.

George Michael

The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.

Basil Bunting