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Sermon Quotations Archive
Quotations regarding 'Destruction'
War is the science of destruction.
John Abbott, Statesman (1821-1893)
The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.
Richard Adams, English Clergyman
Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction.
Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher (1903-1969)
Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.
Aesop, Greek Author
We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
Aesop, Greek Author
Saddam's goal is to achieve the lifting of U.N. sanctions while retaining and enhancing Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs. We cannot, we must not and we will not let him succeed.
Madeleine Albright, American Statesman (1937- )
Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.
Madeleine Albright, American Statesman (1937- )
Not only the priceless heritage of our fathers, of our seamen, of our Empire builders is being thrown away in a war that serves no British interests - but our alliance leader Stalin dreams of nothing but the destruction of that heritage of our fathers?
John Amery, British Politician (1912-1945)
A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.
Fisher Ames, American Statesman (1758-1808)
All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.
Barbara Amiel, British Journalist (1940- )
Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.
Henri Frederic Amiel, Swiss Philosopher (1821- )
Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.
Yasser Arafat, Leader (1929-2004)
Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.
Saint Aurelius Augustine, -
The alliance should agree... to an effective NATO role against the new threats presented by international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.
Jose Maria Aznar, Spanish Statesman (1953- )
We insist that the international community cannot depend on any country with weapons of mass destruction which has relations with terrorists, and which allows itself the luxury of not respecting the law and of defying the international community.
Jose Maria Aznar, Spanish Statesman (1953- )
We have to preserve it and use it sustainably. And the short-term use of resources at the destruction of the long-term heritage of this country is not a policy that we can pursue.
Bruce Babbitt, American Politician (1938- )
The passion for destruction is also a creative passion.
Mikhail Bakunin, Russian Revolutionary (1814-1876)
Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
Bernard Baruch, American Businessman (1870-1965)
We are a Nation of peace and compassion, yet these people have and will devote every fiber of their beings to the destruction of Americans and our Country.
Charles Foster Bass, American Politician (1952- )
Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.
Walter Benjamin, German Critic (1892-1940)