Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.
Alan Watts

Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.
Albert Schweitzer

If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.
Jesus Christ

There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs.
David Ogilvy

Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows.
Les Brown

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
Euripides

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
Victor Hugo

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
Victor Hugo

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
Ray Bradbury

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
Isaac Asimov

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.
Isaac Asimov

No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.
Ann Landers

The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.
George Santayana

Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.
Andre Malraux

Those who insist on having hostilities with us, kill and destroy the option of friendship with us in the future, which is unfortunate because it is clear the future belongs to Iran and that enmities will be fruitless.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
Ray Bradbury

In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us.
Audre Lorde

If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.
Joseph Wood Krutch

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!
James Connolly

Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.
Aesop