Destruction of Life Quotes

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

Do you remember you shot a seagull? A man came by chance, saw it and destroyed it, just to pass the time.

We don't see the people that vice destroys. We just see the glamour of it - everywhere we look, from billboard signs to movies, to newspapers, to magazines. We see the destruction of human life.

Embryonic stem-cell research requires the destruction of life to create a stem cell. That's why I think we've got to be very careful in balancing the ethics and the science.

Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.

What small account The All-living seems to take of this thin flame Which we call life. He sends a moment's blast Out of war's nostrils, and a myriad Of these our puny tapers are blown out Forever.

The number of Negroes imported into the island [West Indies] and retained for its [England’s] consumption was more than double the number that existed there in 1817, and could scarcely have been less than 750,000 and certainly, at the most moderate estimate, not less than 700,000. If to these we were to add the children that must have been born on the Island in the long period of 178 years, and then reflect that all who remained for emancipation amounted to only 311,000 we should find ourselves forced to the conclusion that slavery was here attended with a destruction of life almost without a parallel in the history of a civilized nation.

We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.

But in its de facto alliance with Caesar, Christianity connives directly in the murder of Creation. For in these days, Caesar is no longer a mere destroyer of armies, cities, and nations. He is a contradicter of the fundamental miracle of life.

Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

Sometimes I nursed starfish alive in jam jars of seawater and watched them grow back lost arms. On this day, this awful birthday of otherness, my rival, somebody else, I flung the starfish against a stone. Let it perish.