Destroy Quotes

When it's said and done, the one thing I want to leave on this earth is hope. I have felt hopelessness, and it's a terrible feeling. Hopelessness will destroy you. I want to bring hope to other people.

Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty.

One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.

How could you justify giving Holland twice the amount of money that you gave Belgium? Well, finally, I put it up to them. They said that they couldn't do it; it would destroy them. I said they had to do it. And I finally got support from Hoffman on it.

One, if you attack my integrity, I will defend myself. If you attack my patriotism, I will defend myself. If you come after my family, I will counter-attack viciously, I will destroy you.

Aggression is inherently destructive of relationships. People and ideologies are pitted against each other, believing that in order to survive, they must destroy the opposition.

The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.

It will be said, however, that protection tends to destroy commerce, the civilizer of mankind. Directly the reverse, however, is the fact.

You destroy the initiative of the working people if they don't feel they have a fighting chance to be a part of the American Dream.

One thing about these storms, we know how disruptive things can be when we depend on the system to keep working. What would happen if the terrorists do it? Knock down the power, destroy bridges, cut the water supply?

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.

Vaca Diez, do not destroy our country!

Do not suppose, dearest Sir, that I am so short-sighted as to destroy my life by English preaching, or any other preaching. St. Paul did much good by his preaching, but how much more by his writings.

For me, running for office is never about trying to destroy an opponent, be it Democratic or Republican. It really ought to be about how can we solve some problems that we're facing.

The ego certainly is the biggest obstacle as an artist or performer, so any chance you get to destroy that is really healthy.

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.

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.

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

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.

Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.

Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.

People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.