If the gods do decide to wipe us out, is it such a bad thing? Maybe we've earned a little annihilation.
Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found.
The satisfied, the happy, do not live; they fall asleep in habit, near neighbor to annihilation.
The destination of the deportation is annihilation.
I like to play with things a while before annihilation.
Democrats are unified under the premise of total political annihilation.
I remain convinced that for Stalin to have complete centralized power in his hands, he found it necessary to physically destroy the second-largest Soviet republic, meaning the annihilation of the Ukrainian peasantry, Ukrainian intelligentsia, Ukrainian language, and history as understood by the people; to do away with Ukraine and things Ukrainian as such. The calculation was very simple, very primitive: no people, therefore, no separate country, and thus no problem. Such a policy is Genocide in the classic sense of the word.
Nature abhors annihilation.
The gopis seek Krishna, another part of themselves that create ecstasy. The man seeks the woman, the woman seeks the man. The Tantric Buddhist seeks annihilation of the ego.
Our first work must be the annihilation of everything as it now exists.
Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it is an intolerable thought that he and all other sentient beings are doomed to complete annihilation after such long-continued slow progress.
To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.
Today I will once more be a prophet. If the international Jewish financiers, inside and outside Europe, succeed in plunging the nations once more into a world war, then the result will not be the Bolshevisation of the earth, and thus the victory of Jewry, but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe!
In what will survive me I am in harmony with my annihilation.
Land degradation did not start with chemical agriculture. But chemical agriculture offered new tools for annihilation.
This suffering, this unspeakable capacity to bleed and to know pain and to know annihilation, is what has to be overcome in this world if anyone is to reach God.
The foreign policy aim of ants can be summed up as follows: restless aggression, territorial conquest, and genocidal annihilation of neighboring colonies whenever possible. If ants had nuclear weapons, they would probably end the world in a week.
But Hitler didn't strive for the annihilation of the Jews - he stressed that fact in public life and in the newspapers. Hitler merely said at the beginning that Jewish influence was too great, that of all the lawyers in Berlin, eighty percent were Jewish. Hitler thought that a small percentage of the people, the Jews, should not be allowed to control the theater, cinema, radio, et cetera.
Never befuddle a solitary thrashing with a last annihilation.
Submission to suffering is a form of annihilation, but transformation of suffering rekindles a faith that gives life.
