Destruction Quotes - Page 11

You are not entitled to stand or speak on behalf of the people or society, except that you are already provoked.

Whatever it is in life that is worth attaining, there must be something that is provoking an individual to go for that thing passionately.

Poverty is a force that pulls down the head of the people.

No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much.

If the ignorance of nature gave birth to such a variety of gods, the knowledge of this nature is calculated to destroy them.

Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach

Many [Tudor-era religious radicals] believed then, exactly as Christian fundamentalists do today, that they lived in the 'last days' before Armageddon and, again just as now, saw signs all around in the world that they took as certain proof that the Apocalypse was imminent. Again like fundamentalists today, they looked on the prospect of the violent destruction of mankind without turning a hair. The remarkable similarity between the first Tudor Puritans and the fanatics among today's Christian fundamentalists extends to their selective reading of the Bible, their emphasis on the Book of Revelation, their certainty of their rightness, even to their phraseology. Where the Book of Revelation is concerned, I share the view of Guy, that the early church fathers released something very dangerous on the world when, after much deliberation, they decided to include it in the Christian canon."]

Have you ever thought what a God would be like who actually ordained and executed the cruelty that is in [the biblical Book of Revelation]? A holocaust of mankind. Yet so many of these Bible-men accept the idea without a second thought.

Everything might scatter. You might be right. I suppose it's something we can't easily get away from. People need to feel they belong. To a nation, to a race. Otherwise, who knows what might happen? This civilisation of ours, perhaps it'll just collapse. And everything scatter, as you put it.

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spend the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

Let your faith be in the Lord Jesus and not in your strength, to fight against ungodliness and injustice in the society.

If you are faithful in little things, then you will be given a bigger commitment.

[H]e initially conceived of Olivier as a man of the greatest promise destroyed by a fatal flaw, the unreasoning passion for a woman dissolving into violence, desperately weakening everything he tried to do. For how could learning and poetry be defended when it produced such dreadful results and was advanced by such imperfect creatures? At least Julien did not see the desperate fate of the ruined lover as a nineteenth-century novelist or a poet might have done, recasting the tale to create some appealing romantic hero, dashed to pieces against the unyielding society that produced him. Rather, his initial opinion -- held almost to the last -- was of Olivier as a failure, ruined by a terible weakness.

It is not what they built. It is what they knocked down.It is not the houses. It is the spaces between the houses.It is not the streets that exist. It is the streets that no longer exist.

Ready for the cheap escapeOn the brink of self destruction Widespread panic Broken glass inside my head Bleeding down these thoughts ~

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

Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day.

William Shakespeare

Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.

Easter is a marvelous affirmation of the genius of our design, but it is likewise the blunt acknowledgement that left to its own devices, the genius of our design will result in the destruction of our lives.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Guard yourself with a positive attitude, conviction, hope and fulfillment of your heart’s desire.

There is still hope that if the people refuse to give up and keep silent, no matter how long or inconsequential their voices could be at the beginning, it would still be heard and justice be served.

When Mother Nature turns on us, I hope that she doesn't show the same compassion that we, humans, show to the environment and all the other life here on Earth.

Anthony T.Hincks

but the crime is more important than the punishment. I enliven all of me in my happy instinct for destruction.

Clarice Lispector

If I simply look at the map that I’ve so tediously created, it will explain why I’m laying at the bottom of this cliff looking up.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

In case you’re short on definitions, here’s one. Insanity: ‘Destroying the very things that sustain us.’ And if we’re so short-sighted so as to make such preposterous choices, then it’s not all that preposterous to believe that shortly our end will be in sight.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

It takes wisdom, power and influence to be able to make a positive impact on what goes on in society and in the nation as a whole.

If it is only one thing in life that you have or allowed to discover, then it must be your significance.

You need to discover something that will impact humanity.

Discover what you need to do to make your life have meaning.

Godliness must be presented with its profit and incentives, not only for the good of the nation and society, but of eternal value.

When what you are insulted by meets what you have a strong desire to do, then that would bring you significance.

It is a good thing to live long but it is much more important to make a difference in life by living a life of significance.

A life that is actually lived is one that is with significance.

When you live for the purpose of making a difference for the people, for society, for the things that are beyond you, then significance will not be able to elude you.

When you have discovered your significance, your life will now begin to move towards making a difference.

Be prepared to be on the race to fulfill and to achieve fulfillment.

In the pursuit of wholeness, there will surely be challenges but you need to keep going.

Your purpose is more than just being happy, but it’s about making others to be blessed and happy.

The principle of godliness must be believed and embedded as the culture to live by.

When your life gets to the stage of being mindful and concerned with impacting and blessing lives, then you are pursuing wholeness as an individual.

You have to live intentionally as one with a unique purpose and determination.

After you have made the discovery of your own significance, you would then be able to find the reason to stay alive.

It is only those that live intentionally that can accomplish and come to the significance meant for them.

To live intentionally implies that it is not going to be always convenient but it is what will take you to significance if you do not give up.

A person could waste an important part of his living if he refuses to come into significance; if he refuses to impact lives around, the family and in the community or in the society.

You need to encourage yourself especially if you know you are on the path of significance.

For your life to have meaning is to discover what you are meant to fulfill.

Your anger towards ungodliness, towards injustice and the likes, will create a hunger in you to fulfill a particular purpose meant for you.

Your anger and fury at ungodliness and injustice around you is a license given to you to fulfill a purpose.

Those irritations and uneasiness you are faced with are evidence that you have an assignment to fulfill.

Everyone desires significance but not everyone is ready to go through the process of being ‘pregnant’ with the requirements that would make them to be significant.

Each individual needs to be pregnant with the seed of purpose.

You have to discover what makes you different in your society.

Find out what you need to do to express your importance.

The principles of godliness must be ensured to be received by all in the community, city and the nation, even by the young and old.

What you discover valuable to you can make all the difference in your life.

Finding meaning for life is simply coming into significance because you have been able to accomplish and fulfill your purpose.

When you know that you know to the extent of committing your life to a just cause, then nothing will be able to stop you.

If you have committed all things to impacting a life at a time, or impacting a community or society, then welcome to a life of significance.

Believe that your life is not ordinary and never look down on what you can do to impact a life.

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