Top 100 Destroy Quotes
#1. I'm the thing that the ISI fears the most. The spy who becomes a traitor willingly and embraces everything he's been trained to destroy.
Khalid Muhammad
#2. His basic message is meant to put steel in their backbone and to encourage them to run the race and seek the prize of Heaven. He comes to remind them that they have an enemy who seeks to destroy them.
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John Bunyan
#3. How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
Honore De Balzac
#4. If I didn't want to destroy Stacks before, then I did now. I hated him for what he did and how he treated me.
Lucinda John
#5. You don't just decide to destroy a person by making up stuff, and no one at 'SNL' is writing to go after someone.
Tina Fey
#6. Consider that spiritual safety comes through spiritual unity. Christians united together are difficult to separate, difficult to break, difficult to pick off and destroy. It is when you isolate yourself by disrupting or denying unity that you are most at risk.
Thomas Brooks
#7. The Russians could have some (warheads) aimed at Japan, so if we act up they can destroy our economy.
P. J. O'Rourke
#9. Vultures devour the fallen. Hyenas destroy the weak. Humans kill that which they fear. Survive and be strong, or die, cornered by your prey, trembling because the night is dark.
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
#10. PSA40.14 Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.
Anonymous
#11. We do not know which irresponsible Israeli prime minister will take office and decide to use nuclear weapons in the struggle against neighboring Arab countries. What has already been exposed about the weapons Israel is holding can destroy the region and kill millions.
Mordechai Vanunu
#12. If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much - make it greedy, miserable and sick.
John Steinbeck
#13. Conscience and covetousness are never to be reconciled; like fire and water they always destroy each other, according to the predominancy of the element.
Jeremy Collier
#15. The harm that you do to others is the harm that you do to yourself and you cannot think then that you can cause wars in other parts of the world and destroy people and drone them without this having a terrible impact on your own soul and your own consciousness.
Alice Walker
#16. Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self esteem.
Kurt Cobain
#17. They'll be no learning period with nuclear weapons. Make one mistake and you're going to destroy nations.
Robert McNamara
#19. Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error.
George Bernard Shaw
#20. I know that I am also destroying you as I destroy myself.
Cezmi Ersoz
#22. One quick way to destroy a society is through its music.
Vladimir Lenin
#23. How can you render the duties of justice to men when they may destroy you?
John Howard Griffin
#24. Not to destroy but to construct,
I hold the unconquerable belief
that science and peace will triumph over ignorance and war
that nations will come together
not to destroy but to construct
and that the future belongs to those
who accomplish most for humanity.
Adlai E. Stevenson
#25. Because if we destroy Creation, Creation will destroy us! Never forget this!
Pope Francis
#26. Fascism is the cult of organised murder , invented by the arch-enemies of society . It tends to destroy civilization and revert man to his most barbarous state. Mussolini and Hitler might well be called the devils of an age, for they are playing hell with civilization.
Marcus Garvey
#28. Do not have an important dark and important light in the same picture they will destroy each other.
Harvey Dunn
#29. He tried to work alongside his father as a carpenter but a man who had been taught only to destroy found it hard to create.
Nadia Hashimi
#30. When you go through tragedy, you can either let that destroy you and you become bitter and never let it go, or you can let it make you stronger and let it make you grow. And that's what I did. My lyrics are coming from a place that I want people to relate to and feel that they're not alone.
Evanescence
#31. Saving the biosphere depends first and foremost on human beings reaching mutual understanding and unforced agreement as to common ends. And that intersubjective accord occurs only in the noosphere. Anything short of that noospheric accord will continue to destroy the biosphere.
Ken Wilber
#32. It was as if my sould had left my body, floated up to the ceiling, and was watching me destroy my own career with one deliberately assaultive punch. (Dark City Lights)
Peter Hochstein
#33. The Union, and the Constitution, are the picture of silver, subsequently framed around it. The picture was not made to conceal or destroy the apple, but to adorn and preserve it. The picture was made for the apple-not the apple for the picture.
Abraham Lincoln
#34. It is a real issue, a measurement of our society, when we say it's fine to destroy unborn life who has a heartbeat at 16 days post-conception.
Tom Coburn
#35. He knew in that moment that falling in love with her would destroy him, and so he decided at once that he would do his damnedest to despise her.
Ash Gray
#36. Organizations that destroy the status quo win. Whatever the status quo is, changing it gives you the opportunity to be remarkable.
Seth Godin
#37. You can't destroy knowledge. You can stamp it under and burn it up and forbid it to be, but somewhere it will survive.
Leigh Brackett
#38. Sooner or later, we will face a catastrophic threat from space. Of all the possible threats, only a gigantic asteroid hit can destroy the entire planet. If we prepare now, we better our odds of survival. The dinosaurs never knew what hit them.
Michio Kaku
#39. I didn't realize that pretending to be this 'Hills Heidi,' this spoiled rich girl who I wasn't, would almost destroy me.
Heidi Montag
#40. i get it now. i get it. the things you hope for the most are the things that destroy you in the end. i
John Green
#43. The art of diplomacy is often to tell someone you want to be their best friend, but failing that, you might have to destroy them. It's kind of like Christianity. Congressman Lance Boyd.
Jayden Hunter
#44. She was Lilith, First Wife of Adam, Queen of the Night, Mother of Demons, Stealer of Children, and he was her Revenant - her undead warrior. And she would use him, and the power of his spear, to destroy her enemies and punish her wayward children.,
Alan Kinross
#45. Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself.
Ramana Maharshi
#46. It is only in folk tales, children's stories, and the journals of intellectual opinion that power is used wisely and well to destroy evil. The real world teaches very different lessons, and it takes willful and dedicated ignorance to fail to perceive them.
Noam Chomsky
#47. General Biassou is a simple, vulnerable man without much knowledge, and he is easily led astray by the scoundrels surrounding him. He has sworn eternal hatred for me, and for some time now, he has been trying to destroy me using whatever means he can.
Toussaint Louverture
#48. Only a fool unleashes the storm winds of fear, Ralf. Since no man has the power to direct how they may blow, they could just as easily destroy those who hope most to benefit from them, although the innocent always suffer long before that happens.
Priscilla Royal
#49. 5We destroy arguments and q every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to r obey Christ,
Anonymous
#50. Try as I might, I couldn't destroy my spirit. And try as I might, I couldn't change who I was. I was left with what to me seemed to be the most difficult option: loving myself just the way I am.
Camryn Manheim
#51. It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide - plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
#52. Traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy.
Edith Wharton
#53. I'm sorry, man, but I've got magic. I've got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time - and this includes naps - I'm an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordinance to the ground.
Charlie Sheen
#54. You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing.
Oscar Wilde
#55. Never anger a sci-fi writer. These people destroy entire planets over lunch. Imagine what they'll do to you.
John Scalzi
#56. The high office of the President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American's freedom and before I leave office, I must inform the citizens of this plight.
John F. Kennedy
#57. Texas Democrats should be more concerned about what President Obama is doing to destroy the party, and the nation, than about what I am doing in going after him for that.
Kesha Rogers
#58. Shrugging your shoulder and/or letting it move forward will destroy your shoulder and your power alike - whether you are punching, benching, or doing pushups.
Pavel Tsatsouline
#59. There is no moral reason for humanity to continue, if its ends are limited to itself. And this is how we must stop seeing ourselves. This is why we destroy each other. If we disregard the life around us, why should we not be equally disregarded?
Paul Xylinides
#60. The life that we see on our small planet is not necessarily a great reflection of the entire universe. The people are beautiful, but they tend to destroy one another. That's not an operative principle in all dimensions.
Frederick Lenz
#61. Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls.
Maya Angelou
#62. Marxism requires that we destroy God, because government must become God. And the only way for government to become God is to destroy the concept of God.
Ted Cruz
#63. We are the most dangerous species of life on the planet, and every other species, even the earth itself, has cause to fear our power to exterminate. But we are also the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.
Wallace Stegner
#64. Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.
Ray Bradbury
#65. A war in the Taiwan Strait would destroy China's international relations overnight. It would destroy Chinese - Japanese relations, not to mention Chinese - American relations.
William Kirby
#66. If it were considered desirable to destroy a human being, the only thing necessary would be to give his work a character of uselessness
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#67. Without you I don't exist. Anything and anyone who tries to separate us or to destroy the little time we have together at this particular moment of our lives gets the treatment they deserve.
Paulo Coelho
#68. To destroy a man is difficult, almost as difficult as to create one: it has not been easy, nor quick, but you Germans have succeeded. Here we are, docile under your gaze; from our side you have nothing more to fear; no acts of violence, no words of defiance, not even a look of judgment.
Primo Levi
#69. Negative minds full of fear and doubt produce negative lives, which can ultimately destroy your life.
Joyce Meyer
#70. Life is only limited by our prejudices. Destroy them, and you cease to be at the mercy of yourself.
Mina Loy
#71. An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.
John Marshall
#72. The Greens will threaten the future of our strong economy. They will destroy jobs and put Victorian families at risk.
Denis Napthine
#74. So long as Muslims continue looking towards Western civilization as the only force that could regenerate their own stagnant society, they destroy their self-confidence and, indirectly, support the Western assertion that Islam is a "spent force".
Muhammad Asad
#75. If we behave like those on the other side, then we are the other side. Instead of changing the world, all we'll achieve is a reflection of the one we want to destroy.
Jean Genet
#76. Destroy it?' Leo was appalled. 'You've got a life-size bronze dragon, and you want to destroy it?'
'It breathes fire,' Nyssa explained. 'It's deadly and out of control.'
'But it's a dragon!
Rick Riordan
#77. I guess there are some things that are so gross you just have to forget, or it'll destroy something within you. Perl is the first such thing I have known.
Erik Naggum
#78. Destroy them later? Cal offered, which was probably as close to friendly as he ever got.
Rick Riordan
#79. I'll tell you," said Beatty, smiling at his cards. "That made you for a little while a drunkard. Read a few lines and off you go over the cliff. Bang, you're ready to blow up the world, chop off heads, knock down women and children, destroy authority. I know. I've been through it all.
Ray Bradbury
#80. Success achieved by the most contemptible means cannot but destroy the soul ... It helps to cover up the inner corruption and gradually dulls one's scruples, so that those who begin with some high ambition cannot, even if they would, create anything out of themselves.
Emma Goldman
#81. Destroy or be destroyed! I just love that way of life!
Mike Tyson
#82. If I am not being creative, I get creative with ways to destroy myself.
Gay Walley
#83. There's no need to be tragic or destroy yourself or jump off a cliff. That's no longer the paradigm I wish to follow, or that anyone should follow. It is not necessary to be tragic. It's bullshit that women can't have it all. Why not? Other people do.
Mary Harron
#84. The world needs to listen to the cry of the earth, which is asking for help. If you carry on killing people and you continue to destroy nature and you take out all the oil, the minerals and the wood, our planet will become ill and we'll all die.
Davi Kopenawa Yanomami
#85. We have to be as militant defending America as the enemies of America are in trying to destroy America.
Newt Gingrich
#86. You can destroy those who speak the truth, but you cannot destroy the truth itself
Terry Goodkind
#87. The only way to destroy iniquity in your country is intercession
Sunday Adelaja
#88. If the enemy is a significant part of your body, then how do you destroy it without killing yourself?
Toba Beta
#89. I am responsible for my life, my happiness, and my joy. I am responsible for my faults, which will destroy.
Debasish Mridha
#90. A leader's job is to develop committed followers. Bad leaders destroy their followers' sense of commitment.
Dean Smith
#91. To have solely one thought, but it to be capable to destroy the universe.
Mircea Eliade
#92. Emotions enthrall, but change, and as such have the ability to disrupt and destroy.
Donna Lynn Hope
#93. I was not pleased that Hamas has refused to announce its desire to destroy Israel.
George W. Bush
#94. You must understand, wizard. Once you are my Knight, once this last quest of yours is complete, you are mine. You will destroy what I wish you to destroy. Kill whatsoever I wish you to kill. You will be mine, blood, bone, and breath. Do you understand this?
Anonymous
#95. Aegistheus, the kings have another secret ... Once liberty has exploded in the soul of a man, the Gods can do nothing against that man. It is a matter for men to handle amongst themselves, and it is up to other men and to them alone to let him flee or to destroy him.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#96. A Nelsonian solution provides a simple, predictable way to share without limit or hassle over digital networks, and yet doesn't destroy middle classes in the long term.
Jaron Lanier
#98. True evil can indeed be defeated, but it can never be completely eradicated. Even if you destroy every dark soul that comes your way, others will rise up to replace them.
Peter Koevari
#99. Then life taught me a harder lesson, beloved: it is better to forgive an enemy than destroy him.
Philippa Gregory
#100. ...What makes it magic is taht we choose to create or help, just as we can choose to harm. But it's so easy to destroy and so much harder to make things better. that's why doing the right thing makes you stronger.
Charles De Lint