Degrees Quote by Albert Pike

Destruction is difficult. It is as difficult as creation.

— Antonio Gramsci

Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.

— Marquis de Sade

destruction is easy for humans but creation is too difficult.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Destruction leads to a very rough road, but it also breeds creation.

— Red Hot Chili Peppers

To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural processes.

— Alex Campbell

Destruction is also creation.

— Marcel Duchamp

The technology of mass production is inherently violent, ecologically damaging, self-defeating in terms of non-renewable resources, and stultifying for the human person.

— E. F. Schumacher

People thought they could explain and conquer nature-yet the outcome is that they destroyed it and disinherited themselves from it.

— Vaclav Havel

So, at one extreme you have indigenous, tribal societies trying to stem the race to disaster. At the other extreme, the richest, most powerful…

— Noam Chomsky

We reduce things to mere Nature in order that we may "conquer" them.

— C. S. Lewis

Destroying things is much easier than making them.

— Suzanne Collins