Destruction Quotes

"The angel would like to stay awaken the dead and make whole what has been smashed But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such a violence that the angel can no longer close them" "Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy." "War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend." "One of the malfunctions of literary criticism is that it tends to create clothing patterns and then cut these patterns up to create garments. But that’s destroyed the books." "The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes" "The difference between passion and addiction is that between a divine spark and a flame that incinerates" "The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government" "You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture." "The eyes of fire, the nostrils of air, the mouth of war" "Extravagance is its own destruction." "For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it." "The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that" "Hatred is like a two-edged sword. When you cut the other " "Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge." "Creativity is always preceded by destruction"