Definition of Destruction
Destruction
The act of destroying; a tearing down; a bringing to naught; subversion; demolition; ruin; slaying; devastation.
The state of being destroyed, demolished, ruined, slain, or devastated.
A destroying agency; a cause of ruin or of devastation; a destroyer.
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Destruction Quotations
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
Thomas Jefferson
Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
Thomas Jefferson
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
Mahatma Gandhi
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
Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.
Warren Buffett
Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.
Bob Marley
Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.
Nancy Pelosi
The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.
Karl Marx
To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
Pablo Picasso
Destruction Translations
destruction in Dutch is vernietiging
destruction in Italian is devastazione, distruzione, annientamento
destruction in Latin is exitium, eversio, perditio
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