Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

Energy cannot be created or destroyed, they say.

“Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.”

In 2009, I accepted the proposal of Real Madrid, but I was completely destroyed there because I could not give what I had given Milan. I was completely lost.

The monsters in our valley were destroyed that day. Only a very few survived. But that was all right, because we didn’t need monsters anymore. We had become them.

You do not know me, but I am a juvenile delinquent. I do not trust authority figures, I probably will not graduate from high school, and statistics say my present rowdiness and vandalism will likely lead to more serious crimes. I am a dangerous fellow, and I am causing mayhem in this store. […] There. I have now shamelessly destroyed the symmetry of this shelf, undoing hours of labor by underpaid store employees. If you could see me, you would be frightened.

Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children. In an age of artificial intelligence, they are creating artificial stupidity

There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this brief condescension to evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.

Hence it comes that all armed prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed prophets have been destroyed.

You can find things in the traditional religions which are very benign and decent and wonderful and so on, but I mean, the Bible is probably the most genocidal book in the literary canon. The God of the Bible – not only did He order His chosen people to carry out literal genocide – I mean, wipe out every Amalekite to the last man, woman, child, and, you know, donkey and so on, because hundreds of years ago they got in your way when you were trying to cross the desert – not only did He do things like that, but, after all, the God of the Bible was ready to destroy every living creature on earth because some humans irritated Him. That’s the story of Noah. I mean, that’s beyond genocide – you don’t know how to describe this creature. Somebody offended Him, and He was going to destroy every living being on earth? And then He was talked into allowing two of each species to stay alive – that’s supposed to be gentle and wonderful.

It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

We do not argue with those who disagree with us, we destroy them.

The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed along with the body, but something of it remains, which is eternal.

Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love.

If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard it with more hatred than if he had never loved it, and his hatred will be in proportion to the strength of his former love.

Habit is a second nature which destroys the first

Habit is a second nature which destroys the first

Shall I, that have destroyed my Preservers, return home?

Where one step broken, the great scale’s destroyed

When the Shepherd came down and saw what was done, he said, “O you most ungrateful creatures! You provide wool to make garments for all other men, but you destroy the clothes of him who feeds you

Once the battle is lost, once our natural splendor is destroyed, it can never be recaptured. And once an can no longer walk-through beauty or wonder at nature his spirit will wither and his sustenance be wasted.

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself

The Medici created and destroyed me.

Terrible is the situation of those who cannot perceive spiritual growth in themselves. They can see only physical life, which will disappear in time. When you understand your spiritual being and live with it, then instead of despairing you understand the joy that can never be destroyed, which always grows.