Destruction quotes

287 destruction quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines
  • “- Jack: I've never seen anything like that! What do you have in mind?
    - Nick: I don't know, but if somebody built it, somebody can unbuild it.”

    Edward Norton - Jack Teller
    Robert De Niro - Nick Wells
    [Tag:building, destruction, problems]
  • “- General Gogol: The order of Lenin, for Comrade Bond. The first ever non-Soviet citizen to receive this award.
    - M: I'd thought the KGB would have celebrated if Silicon Valley had been destroyed.
    - General Gogol: On the contrary, Admiral, where would Russian research be without it?”

    Walter Gotell - General Gogol
    Robert Brown - M
    [Tag:destruction, research, reward]
  • “- Dizzy Flores: My mother always told me that violence doesn't solve anything.
    - Jean Rasczak: Really? I wonder what the city founders of Hiroshima would have to say about that. You.
    - Lt. Carmen Ibanez: They wouldn't say anything. Hiroshima was destroyed.”

    Dina Meyer - Dizzy Flores
    Michael Ironside - Jean Rasczak
    Denise Richards - Lt. Carmen Ibanez
    [Tag:destruction, solutions, violence]
  • “I am the sum of all evils. Look carefully. My power infests all times, all galaxies, all dimensions. But many still seek me out; a green jewel they must possess. But see how I destroy their lives.”

    Percy Rodrigues - Loknar
    [Tag:destruction, evil, possession]
  • “That which he covets will prove to be his demise!”
    Sheree J. Wilson - Leslie
    [Tag:desire, destruction]
  • “- Robespierre: Fouquier, if we back off, we're all sunk.
    - Fouquier-Tinville: I'm a judge. I'm not your private executioner.
    - Robespierre: You are an executioner! Not mine, the people's! You serve justice! We send you the Republic's enemies! Your duty is not to judge them but to destroy them!”

    Wojciech Pszoniak - Robespierre
    Roger Planchon - Fouquier-Tinville
    [Tag:destruction, enemy, justice]
  • “- Fleck: Between me and you, Johnson, I think the CEO's starting to lose it. I mean, take a look around, will you? It's the Fall of Rome around here! It's Darwin time, you know what I'm saying? Survival of the least expendable.
    - Johnson: Remember the Old Man, Jeff. Everyone's expendable.”

    Bradley Whitford - Fleck
    Felton Perry - Johnson
    [Tag:destruction, survival]
  • “- Operator: 9-1-1 Emergency.
    - Party Crasher: Hello there! It's me - again! Well, what can I say? I'm about to crash another party.”

    Stephen Lang - Party Crasher
    [Tag:destruction, party]
  • - Newspaperman: Isn't it true that an accident in your west coast nuclear plant could stimulate seismic activity in the San Andreas fault, which could destroy most of southern California?
    - Tony Abbott: I think you'd have to define "destroy".

    Roger Bowen - Newspaperman
    Charles Grodin - Tony Abbott
    [Tag:california, destruction]
  • “- Zak: I wish the human tales were true. They're not here to protect the forest; they're cutting down trees. They're destroying the forest! And I was helping them do it. Batty was right.
    - Batty Koda: I was?
    - Zak: They're coming this way. You can't stop them. You'll have to leave.”

    Jonathan Ward - Zak
    Robin Williams - Batty Koda
    [Tag:destruction, leaving, remorse]
  • “Thousands of hours to create and they defaced it in seconds. Imagine what they'll do to the world if we resist!”

    E.G. Marshall - The President
    [Tag:destruction]
  • “The homes of many of us have been destroyed, and the lives of young and old have been taken.”
    Henry Wilcoxon - Vicar
    [Tag:destruction, home, life]
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