We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.

To make yourself, it is also necessary to destroy yourself.

We can destroy only as creators

We destroy to create. But we deny the value of everything we destroy, which serves to make its destruction easier on our consciences. All that we reshape to suit us is diminished, its original beauty for ever lost. We have no value system that does not beggar the world, that does not slaughter the beasts we share it with — as if we are the gods.

In the process of creating what we want, in pursuit of our happiness, we are just destroying the very source of our life, this planet; we are making a bonfire out of it. But still we are not satisfied, nor are we any more joyful than what people were five hundred years ago.

Destruction is also creation.

Don't let someone create you, because they might just destroy you.

We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.

One day Kashmir will make India self-destruct in the same way. You may have blinded all of us, every one of us, with your pellet guns by then. But you will still have eyes to see what you have done to us. You're not destroying us. You are constructing us. It's yourselves that you are destroying. Khuda Hafiz.

Destroying art is practice for destroying people.

We are our own devils; we drive ourselves out of our Edens.

What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.

It would be a sin to help you destroy yourself.

It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!