Dalton’s records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

If you look back at the history of the twentieth century, Germany alone had practically destroyed Russia several times.

Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.

The many questions about the bombing of Yugoslavia by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation – meaning primarily the United States – come down to two fundamental issues: ‚What are the accepted and applicable ‚rules of world order,‘ and how do these apply in the case of Kosovo?‘

John Dalton’s records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

Even today we raise our hand against our brother… We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.

Civilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in terms of millions of years and life will resume little by little. The cosmos operates for us very urgently, but geological time is different.

After May 1940, the good times were few and far between; first there was the war, then the capitulation, and then the arrival of the Germans, which is when the trouble started for the Jews.

War is a way of shattering to pieces… materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and… too intelligent.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

Israel is following policies which maximise its security threats… policies which choose expansion over security… policies which lead to their moral degradation, their isolation, their delegitimation, as they call it now, and very likely ultimate destruction. That’s not impossible.

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

Twenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis.

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.

The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits.

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.

Shall I, that have destroyed my Preservers, return home?

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.

Wars based on principle are far more destructive… the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.

After Hiroshima was bombed, I saw a photograph of the side of a house with the shadows of the people who had lived there burned into the wall from the intensity of the bomb. The people were gone, but their shadows remained.

Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance had shifted decisively into the hands of the upstart across the sea, the United States, by far the most powerful and wealthy society in world history.

I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‚among the most unspeakable crimes in history.‘ I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

I don’t pick up toys. I crush them.

The American claim that the bombing of North Vietnam was directed against military targets does not withstand direct investigation.

Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

The level of destruction and terror and violence carried out by the powerful states far exceeds anything that can imaginably can be done by groups that are called terrorists and subnational groups.

The only black battalion on Iwo Jima was a small munitions supply unit that came to the beach.

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

Suppose I criticise Iran. What impact does that have? The only impact it has is in fortifying those who want to carry out policies I don’t agree with, like bombing.

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.

I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.

I was a little girl in World War II and I’m used to being freed by Americans.

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation’s history. I mean in this century’s history. But we all lived in this century. I didn’t live in this century.

I had had a continuing smoldering fury about the treatment of Jews in Germany.

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

I love Manchester. Everyone knows that – I have said it many times. Manchester is in my heart.

The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.

Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I’m referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.

Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.

I can testify to what UNICEF means to children because I was among those who received food and medical relief right after World War II.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

Death wasn’t part of God’s original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy – the last enemy to be destroyed.

In the early 1940s, as a young teenager, I was utterly appalled by the racist and jingoist hysteria of the anti-Japanese propaganda. The Germans were evil, but treated with some respect: They were, after all, blond Aryan types, just like our imaginary self-image. Japanese were mere vermin, to be crushed like ants.

My father Ted fought in North Africa, Italy, and Germany during World War II. My grandfather survived the horrors of the trenches in World War I. I truly believe that one of the E.U.’s greatest achievements is that it has kept its members out of conflict in Europe.

I was born in London in England in 1934. I went through, as a child, the horrors of World War II, through a time when food was rationed and we learned to be very careful, and we never had more to eat than what we needed to eat. There was no waste. Everything was used.