A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.

When you're a kid growing up and you think you're gay you know that you're different you're often teased and it can really destroy your self-esteem. But sports can be great for building self-esteem.

Society being codified by man decrees that woman is inferior she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

I sort of feel that climate change will be solved by science. I just feel instinctively that we will find a way of saving ourselves. But I am less confident that we won't destroy ourselves in other ways.

I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre which at one time offered great musical opportunities.

I have seen the science I worshiped and the aircraft I loved destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.

I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder or at least my biggest blunder in science.

In LA I mean here's this place full of desperate and sad people who take their only pleasure from destroying others for the purposes of their own self-aggrandizement.

I think every religious person should have a deep sense of respect for other people's religious documents and religious symbols just as we were deeply opposed to the Taliban destroying the two historic buddhas which they blew up. So I think we ought to all oppose burning the Koran.

I believe that what we are fighting here is not just a small group of people who have hijacked a religion but it is a civilization bent on destroying ours.

The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion and dethrones the national deity.

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity it destroys religion it destroys states it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.

What is the system? It revolves around the banks the system is built on the power of the banks so it can be destroyed through the banks.

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

Knowing that you are completely forgiven destroys the power of sin in your life.

The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer.

Goodness armed with power is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed.

An unlimited power to tax involves necessarily the power to destroy.

Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.