Lies can destroy, but not create.

It is in our nature to destroy what we create. (Dr. Paul Kramer)

— Alex Scarrow

What must human beings be, to destroy what they can never create?

— Anton Chekhov

We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Truth hurts, but lies destroy.”

— Kevan Duke

Hard truths can be dealt with, triumphed over, but lies will destroy your soul.

— Patricia Briggs

“Lies destroy you,”

— Dana Reinhardt

Truth hurts, doubt ruins, lies destroy

— Julie Hernandez

“The goal, Karel said, was not to tell explicit lies but to destroy the distinction between the true and the false, so that lying…

— Roger Scruton

“But it is easier to destroy than to create, and there are those whose nature it is to love destruction.”

— Lev Grossman

“What you create, others can destroy. Create anyway. Because in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and…

— Fredrik Backman

Do not destroy what you cannot create.

— Leo Szilard

“If there were such a thing as fate, I had been put on this earth to destroy and not to create.”

— Jocelynn Drake

For most of us, our protective lies or omissions are so insignificant that being found out would be only mildly embarrassing. But for some…

— Fiona Barton

Art and war are opposites, so our goal as an artist is to build and create, not destroy.

— Sergei Polunin

If you can't create, you destroy.

— Anais Nin