The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
Joseph Addison

All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them.
Simone de Beauvoir

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

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

Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.
Norman Mailer

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

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.
Daniel Webster

Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.
Ken Kesey

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

We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.
Huey Newton

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.
Ralph Ellison

I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.
Dave Matthews

It is decisive to completely destroy Warsaw.
Heinz Guderian

It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.
Democritus

Aggression is inherently destructive of relationships. People and ideologies are pitted against each other, believing that in order to survive, they must destroy the opposition.
Margaret J. Wheatley

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
Paul Cezanne

If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you.
Peter Marshall

Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.
Vernon Howard

I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.
Henry Rollins

But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us.
Waylon Jennings