Destruction quotes

“Herr Frankenstein was interested only in human life. First, to destroy it; then, recreate it. There you have his mad dream.”

Edward Van Sloan - Doctor Waldman

“- James 'Jimmy' Dove: God damn you, Gaerity! Look what you've done!
- Ryan Gaerity: You've got me all wrong. I'm not a destroyer... I'm a creator.”

Jeff Bridges - Dove
Tommy Lee Jones - Gaerity

“The Earth was created in six days; so too shall it be destroyed; and on the seventh day, mankind will rest... in peace!”
Brian Thompson - Shao-Kahn

“God blinked, and the whole world disappeared.”
Alison Routledge - Joanne

“Gentlemen, you will never make peace with Napoleon! Napoleon cannot be master of the world until he has smashed us up, and believe me, gentlemen, he means to be master of the world! You cannot make peace with dictators. You have to destroy them, wipe them out!”
Laurence Olivier - Lord Horatio Nelson

“- Inspector Gadget: You blew me up and my Chevette. And I really liked that car.
- Dr. Claw: Well, you crushed my hand and I really liked that hand. So Go-Go get over it!”
Matthew Broderick - Inspector Gadget
Rupert Everett - Sanford Scolex

“- Baxter: Smile, Sir Malcolm, as the cameras catch the dying moments of a British colony.
- Sir Malcolm: Dying moments of my career, you mean.”

Sir Michael Caine - Baxter
Leonard Rossiter - Sir Malcolm

“Inspector, your methods are unconventional to say the least. Oh, you get results. But often your successes are more costly to this department in terms of expenses and physical destruction than most other men's failures.”

Bill Reddick - Police Commissioner

“- Cheech: They taught me how to read and write in school before I burned it down.
- David Shayne: You burned down your school?
- Cheech: Yeah, it was Lincoln's birthday. There was nobody there.”
Chazz Palminteri - Cheech
John Cusack - David Shayne

“- Winston Zeddemore: We conjured up a hundred-foot marshmallow man, blew the top three floors off an uptown high-rise, and ended up getting sued by every city, county, and state agency in New York.
- Dr. Raymond Stantz: Yeah... but what a ride.”
Ernie Hudson - Winston Zeddemore
Dan Aykroyd - Dr. Raymond Stantz

“The battle between Heaven and Hell has waged eternal, their armies fueled by souls harvested on Earth. The devil, Malebolgia, has sent a lieutenant to Earth to recruit men who will turn the world into a place of death in exchange for wealth and power, a place that will provide enough souls to complete his army and allow Armageddon to begin. All...” (continue)(continue reading)
Nicol Williamson - Cogliostro

“- Col. Colin Caine: She's not human she's an alien, she'll destroy you!
- Col. Tom Carlsen: She destroyed worlds...”
Peter Firth - Col. Colin Caine
Steve Railsback - Col. Tom Carlsen

“- Elektra King: You brought me something?
- Renard: The power to reshape the world. Go on, it's safe. Touch your destiny.”

Sophie Marceau - Elektra King
Robert Carlyle - Renard

“- Alan Abernathy: My suggestion was torch the place.
- Joe: Not a good idea. Arson forensics nowadays is very sophisticated.”
Gregory Smith - Alan Abernathy
Dick Miller - Joe

“If we don't end war, war will end us.”
Margaretta Scott - Roxana

“Let's all watch as the world goes to the devil!”
Brigitte Helm - The Machine Man

“- Colonel Guile: Bison. Are you man enough to fight me?
- Bison: Anyone who opposes me will be destroyed.”
Jean-Claude Van Damme - Colonel Guile
Raul Julia - Bison

“- Harry Sears: I was thinking of buying a Mercedes but first I wanted to give it a stress test.
- Iris: Stress test?
- Harry Sears: Didn't pass.”

Peter Falk - Harry Sears
Vicki Frederick - Iris

“- James Bond: I suppose we all have to pay the piper sometime. Right, Q?
- Q: Oh, pipe down, 007!
- James Bond: Was it something I said?
- Q: No, something you destroyed. My fishing boat! For my retirement, away from you!”
Pierce Brosnan - James Bond
Desmond Llewelyn - Q

“Today's civilization is known as corrupt, decedent. Inevitably, it will destroy itself. I'm merely accelerating the process.”
Curd Jürgens - Stromberg

“- Carolina: What about calling you friends?
- El Mariachi: Campa... Quino... They would destroy the city...”
Salma Hayek - Carolina
Antonio Banderas - El Mariachi

“- Steve Martin: They believe their, uh... Godzilla, is responsible for all these ship disasters?
- Security Officer: They're certain of it.”
Raymond Burr - Steve Martin
Frank Iwanaga - Security Officer

“I loved it when you nuked Las Vegas. Suitably biblical ending to the place, don't you think?”
John Wood - Falken

“- President Thomas J. Whitmore: Atlanta, Chicago, Philadelphia, destroyed.
- General William Grey: We have also learned that NORAD and our top commandos were the first to be taken out. At this rate, we could be looking at the worldwide destruction of every major city in the next 36 hours.
- President Thomas J. Whitmore: Then we're being...” (continue)(continue reading)
Bill Pullman - President Thomas J. Whitmore
Robert Loggia - General William Grey

“Madness - it's the only word to describe it. This isn't the state of California, this is a state of insanity.”
Robert Stack - Maj. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell