Top 580 Destroy Quotes

When someone mistreats you, the correct reaction is not to go out and do something to destroy somebody else’s property.
Benjamin Watson
Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed – chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones.
John Muir
Being in the public eye, going through so much in life personal and my work, all of that put together it’s either it will destroy you or make you a better person.
Heart Evangelista
The Republic will destroy terrorism.
Francois Hollande
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.
W. Averell Harriman
I don’t know how you completely destroy your dark side.
Sergei Polunin
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.
Marguerite Young
If you sign nine new players at one time that could destroy the whole chemistry of the team.
Steve Nicol
It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-biased media and the homosexuals who want to destroy all Christians.
Pat Robertson
Well, I don’t think a specific role can destroy your voice. What can destroy your voice is when you… make an error. Everybody can make an error. But then you need to realize what is your way.
Cecilia Bartoli
If your goal is to destroy ISIS, there needs to be a ground force. It could be American or foreign.
Ron DeSantis
The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.
Chanakya
Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves.
William Temple
I always saw pollution as theft, and I always thought, ‘Why should somebody be able to pollute the air, which belongs to all of us, or destroy a river or a waterway, which is supposed to belong to the whole community?’
Robert Kennedy, Jr.
The evil influence of Satan would destroy any hope we have in overcoming our mistakes. He would have us feel that we are lost and that there is no hope. In contrast, Jesus reaches down to us to lift us up.
James E. Faust
Your intelligence doesn’t override your desire to destroy yourself.
John Darnielle
After a few months in my parents’ basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations.
David Sedaris
We need a president that values the role of the states,

We need a president that values the role of the states, will destroy ISIS and jumpstart the economy.
Asa Hutchinson
A war in the Taiwan Strait would destroy China’s international relations overnight. It would destroy Chinese – Japanese relations, not to mention Chinese – American relations.
William C. Kirby
We will defend ourselves, and we have full rights to do so. If the authorities try to destroy us, we have the right to rise up. Sooner or later this will happen.
Sergei Udaltsov
You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
Ray Bradbury
I’ve seen material competitiveness destroy relationships in dressing rooms. People end up worrying about what someone else is earning and whether they’re missing out.
Andrew Flintoff
You can definitely become a victim and let people completely destroy your life.
Tina Yothers
Anything written or printed under a print or picture takes the attention from it and, if it is very black or white in any marked degree, will utterly destroy its beauty.
Winslow Homer
We will talk about cooperation to destroy the disease as soon as we can.
Thaksin Shinawatra
We have a shared destiny, a shared responsibility to save the world from those who attempt to destroy it.
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
When I’m fighting it’s just search and destroy.
Chris Eubank Jr.
For 217 years, the whole history of the country has been based on conspiracies, coups, assassinations. We conspire to destroy it, never to build it.
Jovenel Moise
I’ve always believed that you have to have the skills before you destroy the skills. If you want to be crude, be crude, but don’t be crude because you don’t know how to do it, because you’re not perfect at drawing and pattern-cutting.
Louise Wilson
We really do prefer to build things rather than destroy things, believe it or not.
Jamie Hyneman
Nationalism makes us poor because its Siamese twin, protectionism, will destroy the internal market and disrupt international trade.
Frans Timmermans
I’ve never seen bad drawing destroy a good idea. On the other hand, I’ve never seen a good drawing save a bad idea.
Paul Conrad
I have a complex feeling about genre. I love it, but I hate it at the same time. I have the urge to make audiences thrill with the excitement of a genre, but I also try to betray and destroy the expectations placed on that genre.
Bong Joon-ho
As a former waitress myself, I know firsthand how a simple smile from someone can improve your day and how a single harsh word can destroy it. Being courteous and thoughtful costs you nothing and can sometimes pay you dividends in unexpected ways.
Susanna Kearsley
I like to believe that rather than destroy icons, I make new ones.
Andres Serrano
As a CEO, I had significant exposure to private equity, enough that I had in no way bought into the media’s caricature: rapacious privateers who destroy companies.
Ron Williams
Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.
Ludwig Borne
I’ve done that kind of stuff in records, where you start going back and you want to just redo everything, destroy everything, because you think it all sucks and you can do it better.
Regina Spektor
Through argument and example, we must show that Corbyn’s hard left socialism will destroy business – the engine at the heart of our economy.
Anna Soubry
Black people are on earth for one purpose: to destroy, and not to build. The reason: It’s not in them to show respect to anyone – they don’t have love. They don’t have God. They’re angry at their mothers and disconnected from their fathers. They call good evil and evil good.
Jesse Lee Peterson
To destroy the Islamic State, you have to fix Syria. You have to look at the reasons that created the Islamic State. This is a huge task.
Jamal Khashoggi
Perhaps more than ever before, there is that aggressive secularism and there are those who would indeed try to destroy our Christian heritage and culture and take God from the public square. Religion must not be taken from the public square.
Keith O’Brien
Theater, for me, is no longer a conversation about how we destroy each other; it’s much more about how we may be destroying everyone else.
Anna D. Shapiro
Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset, its flexibility.
Bernard Law Montgomery
The lesson of 9/11 is that America is truly exceptional. We withstood the worst attack of our history, intended by our enemies to destroy us. Instead, it drew us closer and made us more united. Our love for freedom and one another has given us a strength that surprised even ourselves.
Rudy Giuliani
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
Regulation often helps Big Industry remain entrenched in power. The burdensome costs of complying with any new regulation would be a rounding error for the likes of Facebook and Google, but it might completely destroy a promising start-up poised to challenge their dominance.
Charlie Kirk
We are aware that globalization doesn’t mean global friendship but global competition and, therefore, conflict. That doesn’t mean we will all destroy each other, but it is no happy global village, either.
Rene Girard
The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - m

The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive – money – to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it.
Paul Watson
If it had been our intention to take Iraq, if it had been our intention to destroy the country, if it had been our intention to overrun the country, we could have done it unopposed.
Norman Schwarzkopf
Let’s not go through that again. Redirect it, reduce the amount of money spent, but let’s not destroy it. Because you don’t know 10 years out what you’re going to face.
William Colby
The media tried to destroy my parents and has taken things completely out of context, but there’s not a whole lot you can do in terms of fighting back. You have to hope that it passes, which it always does. But they have to be careful. They didn’t necessarily sign up for this.
Katy Perry
Texas Democrats should be more concerned about what President Obama is doing to destroy the party, and the nation, than about what I am doing in going after him for that.
Kesha Rogers
Exposure is about, among other things, the ferocity of the press and the way – in an echo of some of Shakespeare’s plays – the modern media creates heroes to destroy them.
Mal Peet
Albania, Macedonia and Greece have managed to create a good partnership in the south of the Continent and are making progress in blocking the spread of the conflict. But any spillover could destroy this European-oriented partnership and create problems for the European Union countries themselves.
Fatos Nano
BDS is not a typical act of political correctness, undertaken by radical academics whose usual prey is the youth of America. This is a worldwide movement designed to destroy the one democracy in the Middle East and the hopes of people who have occupied that land for over three thousand years.
Thom Tillis