Our job is to keep what is working intact and not destroy what we have got.
Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
I’m torn between the desire to create and the desire to destroy.
We destroy things with our curiosity. We shatter with our best intentions
The spirit of militarism has already permeated all walks of life. Indeed, I am convinced that militarism is a greater danger here than anywhere else, because of the many bribes capitalism holds out to those whom it wishes to destroy.
[W]e shall have the satisfaction of knowing that we have acted conscientiously, and have used our best judgment. And if we have to throw away our votes, we had better do so upon a worthy rather than an unworthy individual who might make use of the weapon we put in his hand to destroy us.
Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have.
The easiest way to destroy a man's faith is to destroy his morality.
You cannot slay yourself in me, Nor I to all eternity Destroy my truest self in you.
We need to start thinking about the Future of Food if we are going to feed 9 billion people in a way that does not destroy our environment.
Only once you destroy who you think you are can you embrace who you truly are
I wondered if I was just the sum of my brain scan, little dots clustered in my frontal lobe. Is that where the poems came from? The desire to destroy myself? This last depression had scared me. It had come on so quickly, not like the gradual woolgathering in my brain I had known before.
. . . non-use of rights does not destroy them.
The power to destroy the world by the use of nuclear weapons is a power that cannot be used-we cannot accept the idea of such monstrous immmorality.
I think zombies have always been an easy metaphor for hard times. Because they're this big, faceless, brainless group of evil things that will work tirelessly to destroy you and think of nothing else.
Just as any moron can destroy a priceless Ming vase, so the shallow and ill-educated people who run our schools can undermine and destroy from within a great civilization that took centuries of dedicated effort to create and maintain.
There is no war so important that to win it, we must destroy our minds.
Criticizing to destroy is easy, thinking in order to build is much more difficult to achieve