Destroy Quotes

In fact, even the perception of a resurgence in crime can be enough to paralyze business momentum and destroy the sense of security that a vibrant and progressive city requires.

There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names-but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know.

I find it strange the way human nature wants heroes and yet wants to destroy their heroes. It's a kind of mass insecurity people want something to look up to and get a buzz off but, at the same time, want to destroy it because it makes them feel insecure.

In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us.

You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill.

No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism.

No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

We have a lot to gain through furthering stem cell research, but medical breakthroughs should be fundamentally about saving, not destroying, human life. Therefore, I support stem cell research that does not destroy the embryo.

AIDS can destroy a family if you let it, but luckily for my sister and me, Mom taught us to keep going. Don't give up, be proud of who you are, and never feel sorry for yourself.

There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart.

A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion.

The endorsement of respected conservative Republican officeholders and politicians is particularly important at this time as to destroy Reagan's credibility as a loyal Republican.

For some men the power to destroy life becomes the equivalent to the female power to create life.

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

No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

If God doesn't destroy Hollywood Boulevard, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

I like to believe that rather than destroy icons, I make new ones.

The most important thing is to preserve the world we live in. Unless people understand and learn about our world, habitats, and animals, they won't understand that if we don't protect those habitats, we'll eventually destroy ourselves.

He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.

Even if you play perfectly, a fault of your opponent's can destroy the entire beauty of the game.

Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.

You don't want to destroy the energy that comes out of a campaign.

It was, however, in the interest of Osama bin Laden for us to destroy a secular Arab leader; it was very much in the interest of the Iranians because they wanted revenge against Saddam Hussein for Iraq's invasion in 1980.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

The quality that defines us as Americans is the courage to respond to being hit. The courage to root out and destroy the killers. And, most importantly, the courage to hold on to our values and protect our hard-won freedoms while doing it.

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

I'm absolutely gonna win it, because I'm ruthless. I sit at the poker table and my job is to destroy people.