Top 580 Destroy Quotes

If you give me the chance, I’ll destroy America for you.
John Lydon
The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it’s very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer.
Thomas J. Watson
It puts limits on criminals’ rights to destroy unborn children without the permission of the woman.
Lindsey Graham
A hacker doesn’t deliberately destroy data or profit from his activities.
Kevin Mitnick
If solar and wind farms are needed to protect the natural environment, why do they so often destroy it?
Michael Shellenberger
The whole global warming thing is created to destroy America’s free enterprise system and our economic stability.
Jerry Falwell
When I was a boy, my parents would buy me a new toy and I would destroy it. Oh man, I would destroy it. I don’t know why I would do such a thing. I was a little rough when I was a little kid.
Andy Ruiz Jr.
For me, my family and my faith have been what’s really been my anchor, and grounding me, and helping me navigate through a lot of the things that really destroy marriages in Hollywood, and in your own personal integrity.
Kirk Cameron
Obamacare is going to destroy our economy and destroy our freedom.
Paul Broun
Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.
Georges Bernanos
The people on this planet that are trying to live their life, that aren’t trying to destroy things, are in the 99.9-percent majority.
Albert Brooks
The quality that defines us as Americans is the courage to respond to being hit. The courage to root out and destroy the killers. And, most importantly, the courage to hold on to our values and protect our hard-won freedoms while doing it.
Nick Clooney
Freedom of speech and thought matters, especially when it is speech and thought with which we disagree. The moment the majority decides to destroy people for engaging in thought it dislikes, thought crime becomes a reality.
Ben Shapiro
The happiest moments of my childhood were when my toys broke, because then I could destroy them with impunity.
Andrew Stanton
Sometimes you have to destroy your business in order to save it.
James Surowiecki
Nitric oxide production by immune cells is one of the key mechanisms that our bodies use to destroy diseased cells. Enhancement of these types of immune responses is seen consistently with many medicinal mushrooms that have been tested by cancer researchers.
Paul Stamets
Genes are mysterious things, still unpredictable after all of our research, flecks of humanity that can destroy lives but, just as often, can teach us to appreciate the strange wonder of our existence.
Monica Hesse
Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you’re deprived of it.
Wole Soyinka
Parties are continually changing. The men of today give place to the men of tomorrow, and the idols which one set worship, the next destroy.
John Tyler
All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
Alexis de Tocqueville
In the end, there is no absence of irony: the integrity of what is sacred to Native Americans will be determined by the government that has been responsible for doing everything in its power to destroy Native American cultures.
Winona LaDuke
Radical Islamist extremists surely hope that an attack on Iraq will kill many people and destroy much of the country, providing recruits for terrorist actions.
Noam Chomsky
There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.
Rod Serling
There are people who just love to destroy other people. It saddens me to admit that, I think, at whatever state of human civilisation we arrive at, the will to destroy other people is something that is innate in some people.
Tobias Forge
I grew up loving Brazilian soccer. What made me think soccer was cool was these guys making soccer look like fun and easy, and they would just destroy people. It was an art. I loved that. And that’s the way I learned the game and mimicked a style. It’s just so beautiful.
Tobin Heath
Andy was not a hippie or rebel but more like a mischievous child. He was never out to destroy everything. He became a New Yorker, and New Yorkers know, like the media, what’s going on around them is a fashion thing that will change to something else.
Paul Morrissey
The planet will get better; it’s us that won’t be here because we’ll destroy the environment.
Scott Kelly
There is no point going man-to-man with a player of Messi’s ability. He is so clever he would drag your player all over the pitch and still find a way to destroy you, probably exploiting the hole you’ve left by assigning someone to that role.
Tony Pulis
The psychology of the Klitschkos is to be nice to you b

The psychology of the Klitschkos is to be nice to you before the fight and then destroy you in the ring. With them it’s just business.
Dereck Chisora
It’s one thing for the industry to lose half its revenue to piracy; it’s another to destroy it emotionally.
Jimmy Iovine
Reason would lead us to the conclusion that Jehovah would not create a wonderful earth like this, permit man to bring it to a high state of cultivation in many places, and then completely destroy it.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford
The end of the world is on people’s minds. We have the power to destroy or save ourselves, but the question is what do you do with that responsibility.
Nicolas Cage
I look at the plotline and let my co-author basically write the book; first draft. Then they give it to me, and I totally destroy it and write all my stuff over it.
Janet Evanovich
I’ve only written one science-fiction book: ‘Fahrenheit 451.’ That book is a book based on real facts and my hatred of people who destroy books.
Ray Bradbury
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?
Geraldo Rivera
If I were less than honest as a critic, I think people would spot that right away, and it would destroy my credibility.
Leonard Maltin
Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
James Baldwin
Obviously, the United States military can destroy any of Iran’s nuclear infrastructure.
Tom Cotton
Lonely women destroy themselves; lonely men threaten the world.
Victor LaValle
I detest this contemporary trend to destroy the traditional hierarchy of genres.
Italo Calvino
The greatest of all crimes are the wars that are carried on by governments, to plunder, enslave, and destroy mankind.
Lysander Spooner
The Jew is upset because the nations of the world – the United Nations – lash him, brand him as racist and evil, hate him and openly demonstrate their desire to destroy him.
Meir Kahane
Let me be clear: Those who seek to undermine our democratic institutions, indiscriminately destroy our businesses and attack our law enforcement officers and fellow citizens are a threat to the homeland.
Chad Wolf
Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It’s a black wall. It’s a thief.
Dave Grohl
Ever since we achieved a breakthrough in the area of recombinant DNA in 1973, left-wing nuts and environmental kooks have been screaming that we will create some kind of Frankenstein bug or Andromeda Strain that will destroy us all.
James D. Watson
In late 2003, the Bush administration reversed a long-standing policy requiring agents to destroy their files on innocent American citizens, companies and residents when investigations closed.
Barton Gellman
When kids are really little, they destroy everything.
Drew Scott
Donald Trump is out to destroy people’s lives, and he’s trying to take our democracy down. That is something we can fight with everything we’ve got, but having compassion for one another while we do it is going to get us a lot further.
Betsy Hodges
In a democracy, the one thing that cannot be done is to destroy its trust, its hope, its idealism.
Teresa Heinz
A person can destroy me with two words. It can just be the way they say them, the inflection.
Peter Sellers
I am not about to be a party to anything having to do with the law that is going to destroy individual freedom and liberty in this country.
George Wallace
It’s easier to destroy than it is to create, but I’ve always enjoyed the creative aspect of the game.
Clint Dempsey
As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.
Chanakya
You don’t just decide to destroy a person by making up stuff, and no one at ‘SNL’ is writing to go after someone.
Tina Fey
We all see that, today, man can destroy the foundation of his existence: his Earth.
Pope Benedict XVI
The government can’t create jobs; they’ll destroy jobs trying to do it. The government doesn’t have any money; all they have is a printing press. We need to free markets to create jobs; if the government wants to help, they should reduce their burden on the economy.
Peter Schiff
There’s been resistance to every new technology that’s ever been introduced. When books came out hundreds of years ago, there were complaints that it would destroy the oral tradition. Some of those fears were justified, but it didn’t stop the rise of the written word. And books have proven to be incredibly useful.
Jeremy Stoppelman
There the union of Church and State tends strongly to paralyze some of the members of the body of Christ. Here there is no such influence to destroy spiritual life and power.
Josiah Strong
Vaca Diez, do not destroy our country!
Evo Morales
A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to

A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but cash value is another matter.
Paul Scofield