The human failing I would most like to correct is aggression. It may have had survival advantage in caveman days, to get more food, territory or partner with whom to reproduce, but now it threatens to destroy us all.
Humans have both the urge to create and destroy.
If everybody is rewarded just for being alive, you get the same sort of effect as you do when you reward every student just for being enrolled. You destroy not only education, you destroy society by giving A's to everyone. This is a philosophical consideration that bothers me very much as I sit in the United States Senate and see the great budget allocations going through.
There is no oil so thick as to destroy the imagination.
Making bombs will only destroy us. It doesn't matter whether we use them or not. They will destroy us either way.
Watch lest prosperity destroy generosity.
Get arrested. Destroy the property of those who torture animals. Liberate those animals interned in the hellholes our society tolerates.
I was always being creative. I could never have played a defensive role because I would have been forced to destroy the other player's creativity.
Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
Marcel Duchamp, one of this century's pioneers, moved his work through the retinal boundaries which had been established with Impressionism into a field where language, thought and vision act upon one another. There it changed form through a complex interplay of new mental and physical materials, heralding many of the technical, mental and visual details to be found in more recent art. . . He declared that he wanted to kill art ("for myself") but his persistent attempts to destroy frames of reference altered our thinking, established new units of thought, a "new thought for that object. "
It's the little touches that make a future solid enough to destroy.
Without wisdom, power tends to destroy the one who wields it.
Any year that you don't destroy one of your best-loved ideas is probably a wasted year
Your commitments can develop you or destroy you, but either way, they will define you.
to have solely one thought, but it to be capable to destroy the universe.
My problem is not to reinforce or destroy any ideas anyone might have about me, how I do what I do, what my intentions are, the way that I do it. My only job as far as I can see is to do the music that I want to do. All those other things are completely out of my control.
Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished.
To love something is to destroy it forever.
If we destroy human rights and rule of law in response to terrorism, they have won.
The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.