In the evening which succeeded my poor father's funeral, I cut a lock from my hair, and, as it consumed in the fire, I swore that my rage and revenge should pursue his enemies, until they shrivelled before me like that scorched-up symbol of annihilation.

In the United States, Adlai Stevenson criticized the willingness of John Foster Dulles to threaten atomic war in confronting the Soviet Union; such military brinkmanship, he said, could eventually lead to annihilation of both countries.

Annihilation gives birth to my rebirth.

Death is one of two things. Either it is annihilation, and the dead have no consciousness of anything; or, as we are told, it is really a change: a migration of the soul from this place to another.

Nuclear weapons may bring about the annihilation of man.

There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annihilation of his being.

I don't believe in conspiracy theories. I just believe in facts like the use of depleted uranium explosives and phosphorus bombs in the Middle East and the annihilation of Iraq and Afghanistan for oil and other strategic goals.

The true philosophical Act is annihilation of self (Selbsttötung); this is the real beginning of all Philosophy; all requisites for being a Disciple of Philosophy point hither. This Act alone corresponds to all the conditions and characteristics of transcendental conduct.

All Arab countries want Israel to disappear. Just as all of Algeria thinks only of the annihilation of Kabylia. Two distinct peoples but the same fate!

The leader of the separatists wants to start a war of racial annihilation.