If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.
Simone Weil

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
Vladimir Putin

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
Doris Lessing

When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.
Pearl S. Buck

Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.
Pearl S. Buck

We must not let our passions destroy our dreams.
Thomas S. Monson

I wasn't with Joseph, but I believe him. My faith did not come to me through science, and I will not permit so-called science to destroy it.
Thomas S. Monson

I forbid you, agnostic, doubting thoughts, to destroy the house of my faith.
Thomas S. Monson

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
Salman Rushdie

I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.
George Sand

Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent.
Maxwell Maltz

This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come together again only to destroy each other.
Mikhail Bakunin

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.
Frank Herbert

God will lead you into a deliverance where the means that delivers you will be those who would destroy you.
Edwin Louis Cole

After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations.
David Sedaris

The Jew is upset because the nations of the world - the United Nations - lash him, brand him as racist and evil, hate him and openly demonstrate their desire to destroy him.
Meir Kahane

There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.
Rod Serling

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

The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy.
Rutherford B. Hayes

Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.
Robert Anton Wilson