Destroy Quotes
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Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it.
Hannah Arendt
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The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; they did not engender those beliefs, and they are powerless to destroy them.
Marcel Proust
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The beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it; nay, the very passions of the mind naturally improve or impair it, and very often utterly destroy it.
Miguel de Cervantes
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We are aware that globalization doesn't mean global friendship but global competition and, therefore, conflict. That doesn't mean we will all destroy each other, but it is no happy global village, either.
Rene Girard
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Humans, we just hop out of things, off things. We splatter ourselves in inappropriate places. Because we have nothing to live for. Because we want to destroy what we can. Because we want to be something we can’t. Because we don’t really believe we can die.
Deb Olin Unferth
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Take away the Mass, destroy the Church.
Martin Luther
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It is the only thing we can do. Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others. And remember that every atom of hate that we add to this world makes it sill more inhospitable.
Etty Hillesum
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The wealth of America isn’t an inventory of goods; it’s an organic, living entity, a fragile, pulsing fabric of ideas, expectations, loyalties, moral commitments, visions, and people. To slice it up like an apple pie and redistribute it would destroy it just as surely as trying to share Stephen Hawking’s intellect by sharing slices of his brain would surely kill him.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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Loosing you would be the only thing that could destroy me...
Abbi Glines
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Free sexual intercourse between young males and respectable girls" was urgently necessary or society was "doomed to fall a victim to incurable neuroses which reduce the enjoyment of life to a minimum, destroy the marriage relation and bring hereditary ruin on the whole coming generation.
Sigmund Freud
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What, sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty ... Whenever governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins.
Elbridge Gerry
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Humans have both the urge to create and destroy.
Hayao Miyazaki
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Here is one of the first rules of politics: it's not enough that I do well; I must also destroy my enemy.
Bill Press
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One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality. Satan, the enemy is using people to further his agenda to destroy the Kingdom of God and as many souls as he can.
Alan Chambers
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Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.
Auguste Renoir
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If the world population continues to increase at the same rate, we will destroy the species.
Norman Borlaug
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For years I have made it my mission to destroy the influence of the Christian clich, 'the safest place to be is in the center of the will of God.' God would never choose for us safety at the cost of significance. God created you so that your life would count, not so that you could count the days of your life.
Erwin McManus
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It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.
Jules Verne
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A single blow must destroy the enemy... without regard of losses... a gigantic all-destroying blow.
Adolf Hitler
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Sometimes it feels like the whole world is conspiring to destroy my house...
Natsuki Takaya
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You know, your species humans has the most amazing capacity for self-deception, matched only by its ingenuity in trying to destroy itself.
Ben Aaronovitch
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If plural marriage be divine, as the Latter-day Saints say it is, no power on earth can suppress it, unless you crush and destroy the entire people.
George Q. Cannon
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Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.
Nathanael Emmons
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If there was a war, a big war, a major war on the planet, it would be a nuclear war, and it would destroy all life, human and subhuman, on planet earth.
Benjamin Creme