Our first responsibility in the midst of violence is to prevent it from destroying us.

- Henri Nouwen

It wasn't so much destroying my dancing, it was destroying me.

- Tracey Emin

When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else... I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas, and I am not replacing them with anything else.

- Rajneesh

Actually, I never really look at myself as a real radical activist; I am more the conservative. I mean, the conservatives are trying to conserve; the radicals are destroying the planet.

- Paul Watson

There is no polite way to say that business is destroying the world.

- Paul Hawken

People have the right to defend their country from foreign occupiers, and people have the right to defend their country from invaders who are destroying their country.

- Norman Finkelstein

The white man is destroying the world.

- Muhammad Ali

Today, the tide has turned, we are destroying them.

- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

We've heard that the hookup culture is destroying us. We've heard that it's saving us. We've heard that it's racist. We've agonized over which one of these is true.

- Hanna Rosin

The pervasiveness of guns in our society is destroying America.

- Alan Dershowitz

Our enemy in Syria is Daesh: it's not about containing but destroying this organisation.

- Francois Hollande

Nitric oxide was known for destroying things.

- Ferid Murad

You can grow without destroying the things that you love.

- Ed McMahon

How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

My big focus is China and OPEC and all of these countries that are just absolutely destroying the United States.

- Donald Trump

Because we're not in harmony with the environment, we're destroying the environment that supports us.

- Bruce Lipton

Theater, for me, is no longer a conversation about how we destroy each other; it's much more about how we may be destroying everyone else.

- Anna D. Shapiro