1. The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history. -George Orwell
2. If God doesn’t destroy Hollywood Boulevard, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology. -Jay Leno
3. Men are destroyed for being rebellious, and women destroy themselves by failing to be rebellious. Unless you can make that next jump to either getting along with people or resisting people, you are ultimately destroying yourself. -Chuck Palahniuk
4. Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world. -Orison Swett Marden
5. What wise men established in 100 years, the fools demolish in 2 days. -Anonymous
6. To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day. -Sir Winston Churchill
7. The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build. -Margaret Thatcher
8. If at first you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. -Author Unknown
9. Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends? -Abraham Lincoln
10. To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. -John Ruskin
11. One to destroy, is murder by the law, and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe, to murder thousands, takes a specious name, ‘War’s glorious art’, and gives immortal fame. -Edward Young
12. That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In the act of destruction, man sets himself above life; he transcends himself as a creature. Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate. -Erich Fromm
13. One leak will sink a ship, and one sin will destroy a sinner. -John Bunyan
14. If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth. -Carl Sagan
15. I demolish my bridges behind me…then there is no choice but to move forward. -Fridtjof Nansen
16. Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself. -Niccolo Machiavelli
17. Destroy or be destroyed-there is no middle way! Let us then be the destroyers! -Mikhail Bakunin
18. Never try to destroy someone else’s life with a lie when yours can be destroyed with the truth. -Anonymous
19. What does not destroy me, makes me stronger. -Friedrich Nietzsche
20. We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs. -Kenneth Clark
21. Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law. -James A. Baldwin
22. Others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win, unless you hate them. And then, you destroy yourself. -Richard Nixon
23. If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers. -Joseph Wood Krutch
24. It is not defeat that destroys you,it is being demoralized by defeat that destroy you. -Imran Khan
25. Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin. -Aesop
26. It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being. -Benjamin Disraeli
27. You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind. -Mahatma Gandhi
28. When man meets an obstacle he can’t destroy, he destroys himself. -Ryszard Kapuscinski
29. If only there were evil people out there insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were just simple, we could separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who among us is willing to destroy a piece of their own heart. -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
30. You do not destroy an idea by killing people; you replace it with a better one. -Edward Keating
