Top 60 Build Or Destroy Quotes
#1. It might be said that society speaks through the clothing it wears. Through its clothing it reveals its secret aspirations and uses it, at least in part, to build or destroy its future.
Pope Pius XII
#2. I personally believe that each of us was put here for a purpose
to build not to destroy. If I can make people smile, then I have served my purpose for God.
Red Skelton
#3. Trust is a fragile thing. All it takes is a single moment in time, or a single word, to destroy what took a lifetime to build.
Auliq Ice
#4. We have the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast. But in the name of freedom, people have done a lot of damage. I think we have to build a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast in order to counterbalance. Because liberty without responsibility is not true liberty. We are not free to destroy.
Nhat Hanh
#5. But demons come from other worlds. They're interdimensional parasites. They come to a world and use it up. They can't build, just destroy - they can't make, only use. They drain a place to ashes and when it's dead, they move on to the next one.
Cassandra Clare
#6. The drive behind life has lost none of its power; proof that, impelled by that drive, man can build as well as destroy; that in his nature is more of Vishnu the Creator than of Siva the Destroyer.
George Amos Dorsey
#7. Fire can destroy, fire can kill, but it can also create. Forest burned in the summer will be green by spring, better and stronger than before. Cal's flame will build and bring roots from the ashes of war.
Victoria Aveyard
#8. I just build and build more yall niggas build and destroy
Drake
#9. Relationships are messy and painful, and hard to maintain. It takes time build, but only seconds to destroy.
Alexis Tiger
#11. You can destroy a factory, and they'll build another. But once you destroy a life, that's it. You never get that person back.
Alexandra Bracken
#12. Surely if men are sufficient masters of things to build a howitzer
they ought to know better than to destroy each other with it.
- Stewart Gore-Browne, from Arras, 1916.
Christina Lamb
#13. Tomorrow I'm going to destroy you. I'm going to mark your body and ruin your mind. By noon, you won't know whether to laugh or cry. But tonight? Tonight I will revere you. I will build an altar of myself. I will frame you in stars.
C.D. Reiss
#14. It is so easy to break down and destroy.
The heroes are those who make peace and
build.
Nelson Mandela
#15. Let the sandcastle collapse. In its place, I will build a fortress - one that the waves of nature and time could never destroy.
Bella Forrest
#16. A woman wields power to build a home or destroy a home.
Girdhar Joshi
#17. Our decision about energy will test the character of the American people and the ability of the President and the Congress to govern this Nation. This difficult effort will be the moral equivalent of war, except that we will be uniting our efforts to build and not to destroy.
Jimmy Carter
#18. A moment of anger can destroy a lifetime of work, whereas a moment of love can break barriers that took a lifetime to build.
Leon Brown
#19. You bring me the deepest joy that can be felt by a man whose invincible belief is that Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War, that nations will unite, not to destroy, but to build, and that the future will belong to those who will have done most for suffering humanity.
Louis Pasteur
#20. Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.
Arthur Erickson
#21. If we built houses the way we build software, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
Clifford Stoll
#22. Sometimes, you have to destroy something in order to build something better.
Brandon Sanderson
#23. We can build an economy that does not destroy its natural support systems, a global community where the basic needs of all the Earth's people are satisfied, and a world that will allow us to think of ourselves as civilized. This is entirely doable.
Lester R. Brown
#24. We are all gods, all forces of nature. We can destroy, we can build. We are like oceans and like fires.
Barry White
#25. Not out of those, on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new, but out of unhandselled savage nature, out of terrible Druids and Berserkirs, come at last Alfred and Shakespeare.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#26. To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West - know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy.
Barack Obama
#27. Be Like Lightning Which Has The Power To Animate Or Destroy Life ... It's Up To You Which Side You Wanna Take ...
Muhammad Imran Hasan
#28. No weapons designer or engineer would build something with such an arbitrary weakness," he said. "The Disrupter is more like something a videogame developer would come up with, to create a big challenge at the end of a level - a boss that requires a huge sacrifice to destroy.
Ernest Cline
#29. We obsess about celebrities. We create them, build myths around them, and then hunt them and destroy them. I don't know where it's taking us or what it means, but I know we do it. I have seen a lot of it myself.
Casey Affleck
#30. Modern sovereignty, whether expressed through killing in battle or the torture of suspects, brings together the desire to build up and the desire to destroy, to let Aid Agencies offer charity (in its original meaning of "love") while the military offers death. The two are intrinsically connected.
Talal Asad
#31. Some say loyalty inspires boundless hope. And while that may be, there is a catch. True loyalty takes years to build... and only seconds to destroy.
Emily Thorne
#32. Such kings can destroy a world, just as easily as they can build one.
Sarah Warden
#33. The Titanic was in more senses than one a fool's paradise. There is nothing that man can build that nature cannot destroy, and far as he may advance in might and knowledge and cunning, her blind strength will always be more than his match.
Filson Young
#34. As of today, you do anything that I feel is disrespecting our program in any way, you are gone! From this day forward, everyone will be at practice in uniform as we will either build this program into something or we will destroy it!
George M. Gilbert
#35. The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer.
Thomas J. Watson
#36. I personally believe we were put here to build and not to destroy.
Red Skelton
#37. We need to destroy ISIS in the caliphate. That's - that should be our objective. The refugee issue will be solved if we destroy ISIS there, which means we need to have a no-fly zone, safe zones there for refugees and to build a military force.
Jeb Bush
#38. It was soon evident in my lodgings that I had become a dangerous lunatic, and there would be nothing left to destroy if strong measures were not taken. So I was turned out of the house, but it was only into the garden, where I was allowed to build a small darkroom of oilcloth.
Henry Peach Robinson
#39. Technology is usually fairly neutral. It's like a hammer, which can be used to build a house or to destroy someone's home. The hammer doesn't care. It is almost always up to us to determine whether the technology is good or bad.
Noam Chomsky
#41. There's a sense that, on a certain day, you want to destroy everything, even the ones you love. Humans are weird like that. You build an empire and you hate it as soon as it's done. That's because we're never satisfied.
Jamie Lidell
#42. A gruesome death is a public event. Cops destroy privacy in order to build a concatenation.
S.A. David
#43. The words we choose can build communities, reunite loved ones, and inspire others. They can be a catalyst for change. However, our words also have the power to destroy and divide: they can start a war, reduce a lifelong relationship to a collection of memories, or end a life.
Simon S. Tam
#44. Central to everything I am and believe and have written is my astonishment, naive as it seems to people, that you can use human speech both to bless, to love, to build, to forgive and also to torture, to hate, to destroy and to annihilate.
George Steiner
#46. Abu Dharr once described the people of the world, says, They breed what will they ultimately bury, they build what will eventually be destroy, they hold firm to what is emphemeral, and they forsake what is everlasting. Hence, blessed are the two cries people abominate most: Death and poverty.
Abu Dhar Al-Ghifari
#47. You can have the power to destroy, but it doesn't give you the power to reform, or improve, or build.
George R R Martin
#48. Trudeau's contribution was not to build Canada but to destroy it, and I had to come in and save it.
Brian Mulroney
#49. Law is the great civilizing machinery. It liberates the desire to build and subdues the desire to destroy.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#50. But what is criticism? Criticism is purely destructive; anyone can destroy, but not everyone can build up.
W. Somerset Maugham
#51. To cooperate, people must not only trust one another to do so, they also have to coordinate on a social norm that everyone understands. That is why it's a lot easier to destroy a society than to build it.
Partha Dasgupta
#52. Builders build.
Destroyers come behind builders to destroy their works.
They cannot.
The legacy is already planted.
Myrtle Brooks
#53. Words can create, words give life, words can build, words can destroy. Words can bring something out of nothing. What are you saying?
Elizabeth Adeniyi
#54. Remember it is good to build and bad to destroy
Sid Mittra
#55. If you cannot build from nothing, then you'll have to destroy in order to create.
Lionel Suggs
#56. For 100,000 (dollars), you [can] flatten a house with a wrecking ball. Imagine how much less it [takes] to destroy something than it [does] to build it in the first place.
Jodi Picoult
#57. For individuals and organizations alike, a reputation is far easier to destroy than it is to build.
Andrew Griffin
#58. I'm not so fond of people myself, Evvy, but I took my vows for a reason. There are two classes of people in the world, the destroyers and the builders. I want to build, not destroy. You need to ask yourself who you're going to be.
Tamora Pierce
#59. To succeed in business, you must build a brand and never destroy it. One competitive advantage I had when I ventured into manufacturing was my brand "Dangote," which I diligently built in the course of my trading commodities.
Aliko Dangote
#60. To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
Winston S. Churchill
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