Destroy Quotes

Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.

John Locke Nazareth
The standard treatments for cancer are not meant to heal, but to destroy.

Andreas Moritz
- Cancer
- Heal
- Treatments

We are the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.

Wallace Stegner
- Effort
- Destroy
- Save
The modern danger is that we grow so engrossed with and seduced by what matters so little, busy with and ruled by whatever presses upon us, that we overlook and thereby destroy our most important projects and goals through neglect.

Edward Hallowell
- Goals
- Danger
- Ruled
I think that every time you hurt somebody you care for, a crack appears in your relationship, a little weakening—and it stays there, dangerous, waiting for the next opportunity to open up and destroy everything.

Edith Hahn Beer
D'Artagnan, my friend, thou art brave, thou art prudent, thou hast excellent qualities, but- women will destroy thee!

Alexandre Dumas
- Brave
- Qualities
- Prudent
But we are pledged to set the world free. Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret. For in this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength. It would be at once his sheath and his armor, and his weapons to destroy us, his enemies, who are willing to peril even our own souls for the safety of one we love. For the good of mankind, and for the honor and glory of God.

Bram Stoker
- Believe
- Silence
- Secret
Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions and privileges, and raises to power a new minority with essentially the same instincts as the old.

Will Durant