Deny Quote by Honore de Balzac

why human beings despise what is beautiful and good, and seek to destroy the things they need the most

— David Mitchell

What incredible arrogance to believe that we limited human beings can destroy that which we cannot even begin to understand - much less create…

— Rush Limbaugh

Anything that we can destroy but are unable to make is, in a sense sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not really…

— Anonymous

Anything that we can destroy, but are unable to make is, in a sense, sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not explain…

— E. F. Schumacher

Sometimes we don’t realize how destructive our creations are until it’s too late. And sometimes those creations we make turn on us and seek…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

To destroy is still the strongest instinct of our nature.

— Max Beerbohm

It is in your nature to destroy yourselves.

— Edward Furlong

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

— Anton Chekhov

Instead of respecting things, we want to use them for ourselves and if it is difficult to use them, we want to conquer them.

— Shunryu Suzuki

It was only natural to want to destroy something you could never have.

— Janet Fitch

It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!

— Alison Bechdel

We must control the tendencies within our being that are destructive, when we want to slam somebody else, hurt them, injure them, or push…

— Frederick Lenz