Non-destructive Quotes

Our power will be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. We Americans are not destroyers; we are builders.

Our peaceful non-co-operation must be constructive, non-destructive. Poison should not emerge from the throes of love.

I raise my stein to the builder who can remove ghettos without removing people as I hail the chef who can make omelets without breaking eggs.

Delete nothing. Move nothing. Change nothing. Learn everything.

Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lies man's only promise.

The people on this planet that are trying to live their life, that aren't trying to destroy things, are in the 99.9-percent majority.

I have somewhere seen it observed that we should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower: she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it.

The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else.

Whoever would do good in the world, ought not to deal in censure. We ought not to destroy, but rather construct.

I don't condone anyone causing damage in my name, or doing anything malicious in support of my plight. There are more productive ways to help me. As a hacker myself, I never intentionally damaged anything.

Just as the bee takes the nectar and leaves without damaging the color or scent of the flowers, so should the sage act in a village.

He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure.

The dying sun will glow on you without burning, as it has done today.

I try to create businesses that I think are not hurtful.

We have the power to abstain from destructive behavior.

Elephants are not human, of course. They are something much more ancient and primordial, living on a different plane of existence. Long before we arrived on the scene, they worked out a way of being in the world that has not fundamentally changed and is sustainable, and not predatory or destructive.

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.

The difference between a path and a road is not only the obvious one. A path is little more than a habit that comes with knowledge of a place. It is a sort of ritual of familiarity. As a form, it is a form of contact with a known landscape. It is not destructive. It is the perfect adaptation, through experience and familiarity, of movement to place; it obeys the natural contours; such obstacles as it meets it goes around.

We do not need to kill or destroy to win. We are a movement that builds and not destroys.

Complete non-violence is complete absence of ill-will against all that lives. It therefore embraces even sub-human life, not excluding noxious insects and beasts. They have not been created to feed our destructive propensities. If we only knew the mind of the Creator, we should find their proper place in His creation.