Destroy Quotes

This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.

Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.

Destroy or be destroyed! I just love that way of life!

The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests.

Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It’s a black wall. It’s a thief.

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.

You shouldn’t break apart from loving someone. Love is meant to heal – not destroy us.

Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.

It is often better to be restricted to necessity than unconfined in the measure of our desires: prosperity destroys more individuals than adversity ruins.