Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent.
Maxwell Maltz
The power to tax is the power to destroy.
John Marshall
You can have the power to destroy, but it doesn't give you the power to reform, or improve, or build.
George R. R. Martin
There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Cities are made for enemies to destroy.
Will Oldham
The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.
Frederick Law Olmsted
The Romans weren't trying to kill all the Jews, but they did destroy Jewish resistance to Roman rule. Jerusalem was turned into a Roman army... →
Elaine Pagels
An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad.
Jean-Marie Le Pen
Obama is defining himself in a way that will destroy him.
John Podhoretz
The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
Alexander Pope