Destroy Quotes

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.

I figured, if I failed, I'd tried something that I hadn't tried before and if one movie was going to destroy my career than I didn't have much of a career to start with. I just went for it. God willing I wasn't over the top and didn't embarrass myself.

Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows.

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

Today, we realize there are those actively seeking to harm us, to destroy our infrastructure and take lives.

The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.

Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

There is a huge agenda behind trying to destroy me and put me down.

To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.

We need to promote development that does not destroy our environment.

To me it seems as plain as can be that the Bible declares that all the wicked will God destroy; again, that those who, during the Millennial age when brought to a knowledge of the truth, shall prove willful sinners will be punished with everlasting destruction.

Cities are made for enemies to destroy.

It puts limits on criminals' rights to destroy unborn children without the permission of the woman.

A terrorist nuclear detonation in a western city would destroy all economic confidence.

Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee.

Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.

If you give me the chance, I'll destroy America for you.

Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.

My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.

What, Sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty. Whenever governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins.

Lawsuits should not be used to destroy a viable and independent distribution system. The solution lies in the marketplace and not the courtroom.

We have destroyed 80 percent of the statues. There is only small amount left and we will destroy that soon.

It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.

For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.

When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.