Quote

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.

Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.

The first step to eternal life is you have to die.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.

Believing that the power to destroy belongs to the Creator alone I affirm... that any theory which, when carried out, demands the annihilation of force, is necessarily erroneous.

Humans have both the urge to create and destroy.

Destruction is always an attractive idea. My brother and I used to spend weeks making models of cities so that we could destroy them in 15 minutes. There's a fantastic joy in destroying something that you've meticulously built. Then you're free to build a new thing. Destruction and creation... they're inseparable.

Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights.