(verb) To damage beyond use or repair. Example: "Hooligans destroy unprovoked."
"Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law."
"Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world."
"Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed."
"What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight. Create anyway."
"If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe."
"The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself."
"To believe in personal responsibility would be to destroy the whole special role of the anointed, whose vision casts them in the role of rescuers of people treated unfairly by society."
"Hate destroys the hater."
"Anger is the ultimate destroyer of your own peace of mind."
"But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life."
"Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being."
"There is nothing worse than solitude. Solitude can help a man realize himself; but it destroys a woman"