Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you're deprived of it.
Wole Soyinka

If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.
Harvey Milk

To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.
Max Beerbohm

Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset, its flexibility.
Bernard Law Montgomery

The whole global warming thing is created to destroy America's free enterprise system and our economic stability.
Jerry Falwell

We need not destroy the past. It is gone.
John Cage

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.
Paul Erdos

There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.
Isaiah Berlin

If you give me the chance, I'll destroy America for you.
Johnny Rotten

They weren't immigrating to some existing society; indeed, they often did whatever they could do to destroy whatever existed here in the way of Indian society.
Samuel P. Huntington

Rules and models destroy genius and art.
William Hazlitt

Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.
Ingrid Bergman

The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.
Frederick Law Olmsted

Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.
Thomas Kempis

The ultimate acting is to destroy yourself.
Klaus Kinski

Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.
William Jennings Bryan

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

Lawsuits should not be used to destroy a viable and independent distribution system. The solution lies in the marketplace and not the courtroom.
Don Henley