My Twisted World (2014), Thoughts at 14
Quotes about devastation
A collection of quotes on the topic of devastation, world, people, use.
Quotes about devastation

http://www.popmonk.com/actors/leonardo-dicaprio/quotes-leonardo-dicaprio.htm
‘Suffering and Speech’ in Catherine A MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin (eds) In Harm’s Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings.
Source: The Prophecy Answer Book

Source: Through the Year with Jimmy Carter: 366 Daily Meditations from the 39th President
The Satanic Bible (1969)

Speech to the Women's National Liberal Association Conference, Memorial Hall, London (12 June 1901), quoted in The Times (13 June 1901), p. 12.
1900s

"Pope Francis declares union between man and woman 'at root of marriage' in blow to gay rights", by Adam Withnall, The Independent (18 November 2014) http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/pope-francis-declares-union-between-man-and-woman-at-root-of-marriage-in-blow-to-gay-rights-9867561.html
2010s, 2014

Letter to his brother, as quoted in The Age of Napoleon (2002) by J. Christopher Herold, p. 8

Anarchism & American Traditions (1908)
See You at the Top (2000)
Variant: Failure is an event, not a person. Yesterday ended last night.

At a press conference for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, as the Doomsday Clock is moved forward by two minutes to five minutes to midnight, as quoted in "Nukes, climate push 'Doomsday Clock' forward" MSNBC http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16670686/ (1 January 2007)
"Total social isolation in monkeys," from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America, 1965.

“From George Washington to Lafayette, 15 August 1786,” Founders Online, National Archives http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/04-04-02-0200 Source: The Papers of George Washington, Confederation Series, vol. 4, 2 April 1786 – 31 January 1787, ed. W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1995, pp. 214–216. Page scan http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mgw2&fileName=gwpage013.db&recNum=157&tempFile=./temp/~ammem_fmyS&filecode=mgw&next_filecode=mgw&itemnum=1&ndocs=100 at American Memory (Library of Congress)
1780s
Context: Altho’ I pretend to no peculiar information respecting commercial affairs, nor any foresight into the scenes of futurity; yet as the member of an infant-empire, as a Philanthropist by character, and (if I may be allowed the expression) as a Citizen of the great republic of humanity at large; I cannot help turning my attention sometimes to this subject. I would be understood to mean, I cannot avoid reflecting with pleasure on the probable influence that commerce may here after have on human manners & society in general. On these occasions I consider how mankind may be connected like one great family in fraternal ties—I endulge a fond, perhaps an enthusiastic idea, that as the world is evidently much less barbarous than it has been, its melioration must still be progressive—that nations are becoming more humanized in their policy—that the subjects of ambition & causes for hostility are daily diminishing—and in fine, that the period is not very remote when the benefits of a liberal & free commerce will, pretty generally, succeed to the devastations & horrors of war.
Source: Night Film
Source: Night Film
Source: How to Kill a Rock Star

Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“To devastate is easier and more spectacular than to create.”
Variant: To devastate is easier and more spectacular than to create.
Source: A Clockwork Orange

“Her own grief grieved her. His devastated her.”
On Sophie Mol's death, describing Mamachi's grief, and Chacko's
Source: The God of Small Things (1997)
“Damon, leather and silk and fine chiseled features. Mercurial and devastating.”
“There is no gesture more devastating than the back turning away.”
Source: Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls

“But indifference would ultimately commend itself as a devastating weapon.”
Source: We Need to Talk About Kevin

[Scorched-Earth Fishing, Issues in Science and Technology, 14, 3, Spring 1998, 33–36, http://www.jstor.org/stable/43313863]

Source: Collected Poems (1949), Revisitation, Lines from a draft version of "Revisitation" omitted from final version.

2010s, 2016, June, Speech about the Orlando Shooting (June 13, 2016)

The City Hall Square Speech, July 25. 2011 ( Aftenposten http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/article4185069.ece).
2010s

Responding to the question, "what did the United States have to gain by intervening in Somalia?", regarding Operation Provide Relief/Operation Restore Hope/Battle of Mogadishu.
Quotes 1990s, 1995-1999, Sovereignty and World Order, 1999

"Flooding and storms in UK are clear signs of climate change, says Lord Stern. Author of 2006 report says recent weather is part of international pattern and demonstrates urgent need to cut carbon emissions" http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/13/flooding-storms-uk-climate-change-lord-stern?CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2, The Guardian (13 February 2014).

Source: The Junius Pamphlet (1915), Ch. 1, Rosa Luxemburg Speaks (1970), trns: Mary-Alice Waters

Statement http://6abc.com/news/mumia-abu-jamal-speech-met-with-vigil-for-slain-officer/337357/ by Maureen Faulkner, widow of Daniel Faulkner, upon Abu-Jamal's delivering the Commencement Address at Goddard College in 2014
About
F. E. Emery (1980) in " This Week’s Citation Classic http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/classics1980/A1980KT80900001.pdf" in: CC. Nr. 52. Dec 29, 1980. p. 292: Emery reflecting on his 1963 article "The Causal Texture of Organizational Environments" with Eric Trist.

On Valentino, p. 58
Photoplay: "Wedded and Parted" (December 1922)

1930s, Address at Chautauqua, New York (1936)

2011-05-02
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_words/2011/05/death_of_a_madman.html
Death of a Madman
Slate
1091-2339
2010s, 2011

As quoted in Pravda (25 July 1981); also in Russian Roulette : The Superpower Game (1982) by Arthur M. Cox, p. 10.

President Bush Discusses Fourth Anniversary of Operation Iraqi Freedom http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2007/03/20070319.html (March 19, 2007)
2000s, 2007

Source: Inside the Third Reich: Memoirs (1970), p. 363

Source: 1960's, The Bride and the Bachelors, (1962), p. 198

Speaking about the choice Americans would soon make in the presidential election at a Des Moines, Iowa campaign appearance on September 7, 2004 whitehouse.archives.gov http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2004/09/20040907-8.html.
2000s, 2004
"EMU and international conflict", 1997

Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000)

About Shah’s sack of Delhi, Tazrikha by Anand Ram Mukhlis. A history of Nâdir Shah’s invasion of India. In The History of India as Told by its own Historians. The Posthumous Papers of the Late Sir H. M. Elliot. John Dowson, ed. 1st ed. 1867. 2nd ed., Calcutta: Susil Gupta, 1956, vol. 22, pp. 74-98. https://www.infinityfoundation.com/mandala/h_es/h_es_tazrikha_frameset.htm
The Naked Communist (1958)

Battle Stations! Your Navy in Action (1946), "The Surrender of Japan", p. 360

Undated sermon calling for the annihilation of Arabs; a Shas spokesman stated Yosef only meant "Arab murderers and terrorists"
Rabbi calls for annihilation of Arabs, news.bbc.co.uk, BBC News, 10 April 2001, 2007-09-23 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/1270038.stm,
Source: Exploring the Crack In the Cosmic Egg (1974), p. 146

Michael W. Dols, The Black Death in the Middle East, Princeton University Press, 1977, p. 67.

Speech at Covent Garden (28 September 1843), quoted in John Bright and J. E. Thorold Rogers (eds.), Speeches on Questions of Public Policy by Richard Cobden, M.P. Volume I (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1908), p. 40.
1840s

National Secruity Speech, American Enterprise Institute http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124267920788831733.html (21 May 2009)
2000s, 2009

The Election in November 1860 (1860)

[Senators Introduce Assault Weapons Ban, November 8, 2017, w:Diane Feinstein, Diane, Feinstein, https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2017/11/senators-introduce-assault-weapons-ban]
On the introduction of the Assault Weapons Ban of 2017
As quoted in Michael Scheuer's Non-Intervention https://archive.is/QBuxT (22 June 2015), by M. Scheuer.
2010s

Remarks at United Nations General Assembly High Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS (June 2, 2006) http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2006/06/20060602-2.html

Address to the Citizens of Concord, New Hampshire (4 July 1863).

2000s, 2008, Address to the United Nations General Assembly (September 2008)
Source: Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius (2005), Ch. 18 : Rousseau the Controversialist: Émile and The Social Contract.

1961, Berlin Crisis speech

“Our Optimism and Faith” http://www.marxists.org/archive/tito/1945/02/04.htm Liberation magazine, page 3 (United Committee of South- Slavonic Americans, 1945)
Writings

Creation seminars (2003-2005), The Hovind theory
Indian Muslims: Who Are They (1990)

Quoted in "Problems of Common Security" - Page 60 - by V. S. Shaposhnikov - 1984

"Manifesto for the Abolition of Enslavement to Interest on Money" (1919)