Famous quotes containing the word destroy:
“The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“Of all our faults, the one we avow most easily is idleness; we persuade ourselves that it is allied to all the peaceable virtues, and as for the others, that it does not destroy them utterly, but only suspends the exercise of their functions.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)