Only destruction of the enemy can be called victory.

For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction.

— Anonymous

There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

— Ayn Rand

It goes to show you how we in the press so often miss the big stories that are right under our noses. There is…

— Roger Ebert

A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which…

— Francois Arago

Perhaps the greatest and least visible form of impoverishment caused by the Corporate State is the destruction of community.

— Charles A. Reich

Somewhere somebody must have some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another.

— Anonymous

Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.

— Hans Kung

Away with you, water, destruction of wine!

— Catullus

Some voluntary castaways there will always be, whom no fostering kindness and no parental care can preserve from self-destruction; but if any are lost…

— Robert Southey

“You are a lawmaker in your own right.”

— Sunday Adelaja

No visiting angel, or explorer from another planet, could have guessed that this bland orb [Earth] teemed with vermin, with world-mastering, self-torturing, incipiently angelic…

— Olaf Stapledon

As far as I know, the question of whether and how it could be strategically or morally justified was never the subject of open…

— Anonymous

Is there some lesson on how to be friends? I think what it means is that central to living a life that is good…

— David Rakoff

“We're on the eve of destruction. Men have lost all sense of honor. Power has become their faith instead of faith being their power.”

— Atiq Rahimi