Embrace change. Envision what could be, challenge the status quo, and drive creative destruction.

Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness in the developing world.

Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves.

In the long run, the greatest weapon of mass destruction is stupidity

There is a big logical jump between acknowledging the destructive nature of hyperinflation and arguing that the lower the rate of inflation, the better.

Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it

If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.

Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.

Maybe New York shouldn’t survive. Maybe it should go through a cycle of destruction.

When governments claim to derive their authority from any source other than the governed, it always leads to the destruction of liberty.

There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth.

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Everyone had a story about a family member who’d had to go in to hiding, or a friend who’d been dragged off to a concentration camp, or a house that had been destroyed by a bomb. Then they moved on to rumours about the war- about Patton, the American general who was making such good progress on the Western Front.

Then you compared a woman’s love to Hell, To barren land where water will not dwell, And you compared it to a quenchless fire, The more it burns the more is its desire To burn up everything that burnt can be. You say that just as worms destroy a tree A wife destroys her husband and contrives, As husbands know, the ruin of their lives.

Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

A human being is a being who is constantly ‘under construction,’ but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.

One must expect a war between U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. which will begin with the total destruction of London. I think the war will last 30 years, and leave a world without civilised people, from which everything will have to build afresh—a process taking (say) 500 years.
Stated just one month after the Hiroshima atomic explosion. Russell became one of the best-known antinuclear activists of his era.

Democracy is a kingless regime infested by many kings who are sometimes more exclusive, tyrannical and destructive than one, even if he be a tyrant.

The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle’s own Lures. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction

My childhood years were very painful. I was only 5 when the Croatian War of Independence broke out. I was living in a war zone and lost my grandfather in that war.

I can’t do what she want me to do, she tryna take my child away. I think my past tryna haunt me.

Destruction is the work of an afternoon. Creation is the work of a lifetime.