Destroy Quotes · Page 28

Nationalism makes us poor because its Siamese twin, protectionism, will destroy the internal market and disrupt international trade.

— Frans Timmermans

“Timber and relationships are fragile. All it takes is one spark to destroy either of them.”

— Steven Merle Scott

We cannot allow the kangaroo courts of Twitter to destroy people's reputations without a fair process.

— Nick Boles

One need not destroy one's enemy. One need only destroy his willingness to engage.

— Sun Tzu

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

— Fredrik Backman

The only people who have the power to destroy you are the people you've given that power to.

— Melchor Lim

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

— Ray Bradbury

If we would destroy the Christian religion, we must first of all destroy man's belief in the Bible.

— Voltaire

I don't think the world will destroy itself in a nuclear cataclysm. On the contrary, we have the capacity to save ourselves…

— Isabel Allende

If you know they're bad, let them go. If it keeps you alive, hold it close. If they separate you from others,…

— Chris

I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it, I…

— Al Pacino

Reason would lead us to the conclusion that Jehovah would not create a wonderful earth like this, permit man to bring it…

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

We obsess about celebrities. We create them, build myths around them, and then hunt them and destroy them. I don't know where…

— Casey Affleck

I was being hated for about 40 or 50 years by the whole world, but it did not destroy me, and it…

— Yoko Ono

Let's not go through that again. Redirect it, reduce the amount of money spent, but let's not destroy it. Because you don't…

— William Colby

You wanted to destroy philosophy and poetry in order to make room for religion and morality which you misunderstood: but you wereable…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

People might destroy your name, but they can never destroy your vibes against them.

— Jessel Jane Zozobrado

“I am destroying myself so other people can’t," she said, "and it’s the worst kind of control but it’s the only form…

— Sue Zhao

The writer knows his own worth, and to be overvalued can confuse and destroy him as an artist.

— Charles R. Jackson

I want to destroy ownership in order that possession and enjoyment may be raised to the highest point in every section of…

— George Bernard Shaw

“You can only destroy something that I have but you can't destroy something that I am.”

— GK Dutta

“The constant need to make everyone else happy at the cost of your own happiness will destroy you.”

— Larry Winget

Then I have some bad news for you, because humans are going to destroy each other as soon as it becomes easy…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I never thought my imperfections would be weaponized and used to try to destroy me and the community that I have loved.

— Katie Hill

Even an empty threat deserves a response you won't soon forget. I must destroy everything that tries to infect.

— Hatebreed

“If you cannot build from nothing, then you'll have to destroy in order to create.”

— Lionel Suggs

A grenade launcher will easily take out a tank; a Molotov cocktail placed in its air intake will destroy one as well.

— Sebastian Junger

I don't love you anymore. But it takes more than even you to destroy a Blair Waldorf.

— Blair Waldorf

You find a glimmer of happiness in this world, there's always someone who wants to destroy it.

— James M. Barrie

The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it's a major problem, that's just a hidden way of…

— Noam Chomsky

“The belief in their actions can mend constellations. The ambition in their thirst for knowledge can both create and destroy.”

— F.K. Preston

Making bombs will only destroy us. It doesn't matter whether we use them or not. They will destroy us either way.

— Arundhati Roy

“You got me out of this place and here's your reward; you're everything we jointly abominate. The essence of what we're committed…

— Philip K. Dick

We do not have to invade the United States, we will destroy you from within.

— Nikita Khrushchev

But what is criticism? Criticism is purely destructive; anyone can destroy, but not everyone can build up.

— W. Somerset Maugham

What I wanted most of all was to use sex as a weapon to allure, subjugate, and, if possible, destroy the personality…

— Quentin Crisp

Ruin my life, the plans that I've made. Ruin desires for my own selfish gain. Destroy the idols that have taken your…

— Anonymous

A little too much anger, too often or at the wrong time, can destroy more than you would ever imagine.

— Marilynne Robinson

“Why does this war have to destroy anything and everything that’s fine and beautiful?”

— Michael Morpurgo

“Actions which produce [virtue] are those which increase it, and also, if differently performed, destroy it.”

— Aristotle