With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species. – Anthony Storr
It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals. – Bertrand Russell
Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision. – Salvador Dali
In Destroys This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path. We cannot dwell side by side. – Sitting Bull Referring to the white people. Speech at an Indian council at the Powder River in 1877.
The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity. – William Robertson Smith