The passion for destruction is also a creative passion. Mikhail Bakunin
We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction. Aesop
Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising. Cyril Connolly
We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs. Kenneth Clark
Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates. Marquis de Sade
There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them. Friedrich Dürrenmatt
When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide. Victor Hugo