The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.
Blind aggressiveness would destroy the attack itself, not the defense.
There is only one way to degrade mankind permanently and that is to destroy language.
Love is giving someone the power to destroy you but trusting they won't.
In our case, murder being once for all forbidden, we may not destroy even the fetus in the womb, while as yet the human being derives blood from other parts of the body for its sustenance. To hinder birth is merely a speedier man-killing; nor does it matter whether you take away a life that is born, or destroy one that is coming to the birth. That is a man which is going to be one; you have the fruit already in the seed.
Legality can't create love if it isn't there, or preserve it if it's dying, but it can destroy love by making it compulsory.
I get it. The things you hope for the most are the things that destroy you in the end.
Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life and that to destroy, harm, or to hinder life is evil. Affirmation of the world - that is affirmation of the will to live, which appears in phenomenal forms all around me - is only possible for me in that I give myself out for other life.
Science cannot destroy the consciousness of freedom, without which there is no morality and no art, but it can refute it.
The Romans always wanted bread and circuses-food and entertainement! As we destroy their city, I will offer them both. Behold, a sample!" Someething dropped from the ceiling and landed at Percy's feet: a loaf of sandwich bread in a white plastic wrapper with red and yellow dots. Percy picked it up. "Wonder bread?" "Magnificent, isn't it?" Ephialtes eyes danced with crazy excitement.
Fear is the one emotion that unleashed can destroy anything and anyone.
If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again.
What art thou, life, that we, must court thy stay? A breath one single gasp must puff away! A short-lived flower, that with the day must fade! A fleeting vapor, and an empty shade! A stream that silently but swiftly glides To meet eternity's immeasured tides! A being, lost alike by pain or joy? A fly can kill it, or a worm destroy! Impair'd by labor, and by ease undone, Commenced in tears, and ended in a groan.
I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy.
Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it coming just like a tide. . . I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're fighting.
Low views of God destroy the gospel for all who hold them.
It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand.
For each person there is a sentence—a series of words—which has the power to destroy them.
It is a very odd sort of Patriot that would destroy the First Amendment to protect the Second.