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Quotes About Destroy

To build calls for hard work, From the one who looks to tomorrow. To destroy is easy work, For one who wants to return to yesterday, Like a grown person wishing to remain a child.
~ Ng?g? wa Thiong'o
Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.
~ Northrop Frye
The power to tax is not the power to destroy while this Court sits.
~ Unknown
In a brutal country like ours, where human life is 'cheap', it's stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs. Beliefs? High ideas? Only people in rich countries can enjoy such luxuries.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Wouldn't it have been better to change humanity so it no longer desired to destroy itself?
~ Orson Scott Card
I don't like lies," said Bran, and I knew I'd failed to keep the pain of his revelation from my face. "Not even lies of omission. Hard truths can be dealt with, triumphed over, but lies will destroy your soul.
~ Patricia Briggs
Members of the Tulu religion are known to truly love their craft. They are always ready welcome to welcome new postulants at any of their temples. Applications may be made during regular business hours. Willingness to help destroy the universe a must." -A Visitor's Guide to Traven, 144th Edition
~ Unknown
They could realize that the universe is a wonderful place. And not only is it a wonderful place, but it's the place where everybody they know lives. Plus, it's where they keep all their possessions. If they destroy the universe, everyone they know will be gone and they won't have any stuff. Now
~ Unknown
But achievements differ in different men. It is not for me, unfortunately so, to build a solid house and live in it the kind of life that is lived in such houses. That is why' - and he began guzzling his wine - 'it is disturbing,' he said. 'Honest people can destroy most effectually such foundations as some of us have.
~ Patrick White
I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
~ Paul Cezanne
Even if guilt is not originary, it is forever radical. It is the adherence of guilt to the human condition that, it seems, renders it not only unforgivable in fact, but unforgivable by right. Stripping guilt from our existence would, it seems, destroy the existence totally
~ Paul Ricoeur
Love and respect all people. Hate and destroy all faith.
~ Penn Jillette
The paradox of trauma is that it has both the power to destroy and the power to transform and resurrect.
~ Peter A. Levine
You see, love is strong. Stronger than hate even. Love is the only thing that can kill hate, nothing else. You see, hate destroys and that's why love is stronger. It builds.
~ Peter Abrahams
A ruler will come from Jacob and destroy the survivors of the city.”
~ Numbers 24:19
you must drive out before you all the inhabitants of the land, destroy all their carved images and cast idols, and demolish all their high places.
~ Numbers 33:52
And David said, “O LORD, God of Israel, Your servant has heard that Saul intends to come to Keilah and destroy the city on my account.
~ 1 Samuel 23:10
Yet for the sake of His servant David, the LORD was unwilling to destroy Judah, since He had promised to maintain a lamp for David and his descendants forever.
~ 2 Kings 8:19
Yet the LORD was unwilling to destroy the house of David, because of the covenant He had made with David, and since He had promised to maintain a lamp for David and his descendants forever.
~ 2 Chronicles 21:7
The wicked wait to destroy me, but I will ponder Your testimonies.
~ Psalm 119:95
Rise up, let us attack by night and destroy her fortresses!í”
~ Jeremiah 6:5
But if the prophet is enticed to speak a message, then it was I the LORD who enticed him, and I will stretch out My hand against him and destroy him from among My people Israel.
~ Ezekiel 14:9
I will seek the lost, bring back the strays, bind up the broken, and strengthen the weak; but the sleek and strong I will destroy. I will shepherd them with justice.í
~ Ezekiel 34:16