"For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor."

Marcus Fabius Quintilian, Roman Philosopher

Destruction, Dumb, Gifts, Man

28

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor."

Exlpore more Destruction quotes

"Society establishment minus laws of God equals chaos and destruction."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Destruction, Society, Laws, Chaos

"I have seen enough. I am ready to see the world die."

Robin Sacredfire, Portuguese Philosopher

Destruction, Despair, Exhaustion, Darkness, Anger

"Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

Destruction, Force, Man, Mankind

"He wanted to grind every Federation world into dust beneath his boot as his army blazed a trail of blood and corpses all the way to Seneca.He wanted to storm their inner sanctum and fire a laser into the skull of their Field Marshal while their Chairman watched, then fire a laser into the skull of their Chairman.He wanted to burn their bodies on a pyre and carry the ashes back to Deucali and spread them on his mother's consecrated grave."

G.S. Jennsen, American Author

Destruction, Violence, War, Power

"It was like the beginning of the end of the world."

Kenneth Eade, American Author

Destruction, End, Disaster, Chaos

"Who knew, or cared, the names of the Turks who blew the roof off the Parthenon? the mullahs who had ordered the destruction of the Buddhas at Bamiyan? Yet living or dead: their acts stood. It was the worst kind of immortality. Intentionally or no: I had extinguished a light at the heart of the world."

Donna Tartt, American Novelist

Destruction, Immortality, Legacy, Violence

"We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create."

Stephen King, American Author

Destruction, Power, Wisdom, Truth

"To Kalist, Baumauer's just a timber bridge in need of a good hot fire."

Carla H. Krueger, American Author

Destruction, Metaphor, Conflict, Fire

"We are in possession of what I think to be compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein has, and has had for a number of years, a developing capacity for the production and storage of weapons of mass destruction."

Bob Graham, American Politician

Destruction, Possession, Production, Weapons

"We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction."

Edward Kennedy, American Politician

Destruction, Weapons, Years

Explore more quotes by Marcus Fabius Quintilian

"Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire."

Desire

"We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide."

Knowledge

"The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body."

Nature

"God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech."

Nature

28

Standard

Customized

Exlpore more Destruction quotes

"Society establishment minus laws of God equals chaos and destruction."

"I have seen enough. I am ready to see the world die."

"Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man."

"It was like the beginning of the end of the world."

"We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create."

"To Kalist, Baumauer's just a timber bridge in need of a good hot fire."

"We are in possession of what I think to be compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein has, and has had for a number of years, a developing capacity for the production and storage of weapons of mass destruction."

"We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction."

Explore more quotes by Marcus Fabius Quintilian

"Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire."

"We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide."

"The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body."

"Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues."

"Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended."

"It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory."

"Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune."

"Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be."

"Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake."

"God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech."