To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
I came to the destruction of volume by the use of the plane. This I accomplished by means of lines cutting the planes. But still, the plane remained too intact. So I came to making only lines and brought the colour within the lines. Now the only problem was to destroy these lines also through mutual oppositions.
If you want to destroy the planet, you can kiss social justice goodbye. The earth comes first.
It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-biased media and the homosexuals who want to destroy all Christians.
May the Lord destroy all the tyrants of the church. Amen.
Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence.
Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.
We have destroyed 80 percent of the statues. There is only small amount left and we will destroy that soon.
Restore, without delay, the equilibrium between revenue and expenditures, which has done so much to destroy our credit and derange the whole fabric of government. If that should not be done, the government and country will be involved, ere long, in overwhelming difficulties.
Cities are made for enemies to destroy.
Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?
It's very important to go back and keep in mind the distinction between handling these events as criminal acts, which was the way we did before 9/11, and then looking at 9/11 and saying, 'This is not a criminal act,' not when you destroy 16 acres of Manhattan, kill 3,000 Americans, blow a big hole in the Pentagon. That's an act of war.
Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.
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.
In a democracy, the one thing that cannot be done is to destroy its trust, its hope, its idealism.
The United States is the world's best hope, but if you fetter her in the interests and quarrels of other nations, if you tangle her in the intrigues of Europe, you will destroy her power for good and endanger her very existence.
Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.
Good will is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.
Protecting Americans from harm goes beyond police and national defense. It's imperative that we not destroy the commons, the physical environment on which we rely.
If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function, no amount of money will save us.
Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.
Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.
If you can't stop somebody from working and making movies that you hate, what's the next best thing? Destroy them personally.
If you focus on the things you can't do, you'll destroy yourself. Just remember everything you can do.
The Obama administration says we only destroy the privacy of non-Americans. That is not true. The government is spying on Americans.
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.
One, if you attack my integrity, I will defend myself. If you attack my patriotism, I will defend myself. If you come after my family, I will counter-attack viciously, I will destroy you.
The paradox of trauma is that it has both the power to destroy and the power to transform and resurrect.
I usually destroy unreleased material. It has a way of coming back to haunt you.
The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.
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.
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.
Saddam Hussein has systematically violated, over the course of the past 11 years, every significant UN resolution that has demanded that he disarm and destroy his chemical and biological weapons, and any nuclear capacity. This he has refused to do.
Believing that the power to destroy belongs to the Creator alone I affirm... that any theory which, when carried out, demands the annihilation of force, is necessarily erroneous.
I find it strange the way human nature wants heroes and yet wants to destroy their heroes. It's a kind of mass insecurity people want something to look up to and get a buzz off but, at the same time, want to destroy it because it makes them feel insecure.
