Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Abraham Lincoln

And, these Islamic fundamentalists, these radical terrorists, these Middle Eastern monsters are committed to destroying the Jewish nation, driving her into the Mediterranean, conquering the world.
Jerry Falwell

Aquatic invasive species are destroying the environment, damaging fisheries, and costing American taxpayers billions of dollars annually.
John M. McHugh

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
Gore Vidal

Clint Eastwood is aging beautifully. But someone like Burt Reynolds and others are practically destroying their faces in the amount of work they have.
William Devane

Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.
Frank Howard Clark

Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
E. O. Wilson

Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship.
William Glasser

Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people.
Anwar Sadat

How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?
Dwight D. Eisenhower

I believe that what we are fighting here is not just a small group of people who have hijacked a religion, but it is a civilization bent on destroying ours.
Tom Tancredo

I can see now a vision emerging how Canada is going to profit in the future from our Arctic resources without destroying the environment on which it is all based.
Brian Mulroney

I enjoy being Jewish, but I'm an atheist... I hate fundamentalism in all its forms. Jews, Catholics, Baptists, I think they are all potty and capable of destroying the world.
Warren Mitchell

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
Jackson Pollock

I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.
Charles Lindbergh

I learned the business in about two months, and then made as much as the others, and was consequently doing quite well when the factory burned down, destroying all our machines - 150 of them. This was very hard on the girls who had paid for their machines.
Rose Schneiderman

I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that.
Randy Newman

If you want a higher power, go to the goddamn sun. Just go to the sun - and stop destroying the ozone layer.
Susan Powter

In LA, I mean, here's this place full of desperate and sad people who take their only pleasure from destroying others for the purposes of their own self-aggrandizement.
Heather Donahue