What about the university library?” “Um, yeah,” Annabelle…

Records can be destroyed if they do not suit the prejudices of ruling cliques, lost if they become incomprehensible, distorted if a copyist wishes…

— Henry Ford

While on the subject of burning books, I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength, who, all over this country, have…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The valuable library of Alexandria was pillaged or destroyed; and near twenty years afterwards, the appearance of the empty shelves excited the regret and…

— Edward Gibbon

Like Samson, I am ready to pull down the white man's temple, knowing full well that I will be destroyed by the falling rubble.

— Malcolm X

'Johnny' was a coping mechanism who could take those things which could have ordinarily destroyed me, by tweaking my past and throwing it back…

— Johnny Vegas

Wars--and what is war except crime on a mass scale?--destroy rather than produce. The vandal that destroys a window causes not only the owner…

— Adam Young

We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed.

— Huston Smith

Wasn't Saddam destroyed? Wasn't Gaddafi liquidated? Didn't Milosevic go to the Hague? All true. But Stalin survived. Kim Jong-un isn't doing too badly, either…

— Robert Fisk

“My problem is that the human race seems to want to be destroyed!”

— Jhonen Vasquez

To all conservative women out there: If you are so sure the embryo needed for stem cell research are precious human life that can't…

— Bill Maher

They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land.

— Hamid Karzai

You know, I often thought that the gangster and the artist are the same in the eyes of the masses. They're admired and hero-worshipped…

— Stanley Kubrick

Evil cannot be "treated" -- nor should it be. Evil has to [be] confronted and destroyed and it matters not why the evil is…

— Bill O'Reilly

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.

— William Blake

To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say…

— Kingsley Amis