Pete Townshend Quotes

I've always had this impulse to be destructive.

There's something very romantic about self-destruction and sabotaging your life, and taking a hammer to it.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

Each man kills the things he loves. I recognise that in myself - in relationships, even with guitars - beautiful things that I've had and wilfully destroyed.

There are people who just love to destroy other people. It saddens me to admit that, I think, at whatever state of human civilisation we arrive at, the will to destroy other people is something that is innate in some people.

why human beings despise what is beautiful and good, and seek to destroy the things they need the most

Destroy yourself, if you don't know!

destruction is ultimately self-destruction.

As soon as the war ended, we located the one spot on earth that hadn't been touched by the war and blew it to hell.

A match made in heaven set the fires in hell.

Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.

What a sad thing men are. Can’t do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can’t build something up without tearing it down.

People destroy what they love.

Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.

Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense.

There is no power on earth that can loosen a man's grip on his own throat

In time of war, the Devil makes more room in Hell.

Hell changes constantly but there are certain consistent landmarks which always stay in the same relation to one another.

Even when you self-destruct, you want to fail more, lose more, die more than others, stink more than others.

Why do you insist upon destroying yourself?

To save myself, I destroyed another, and in doing so, I destroyed myself.

I was hell bent on destruction... it was like being possessed by a demon.

A shout that tore hell's concave, and beyond / Frightened the reign of Chaos and old Night.

West Africa today is just a quarry of paving stones for Hell, and those stones were cemented in place with

Beware the beast Man, for he is the Devil's pawn. Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport or lust or greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him; drive him back into his jungle lair, for he is the harbinger of death.