Who said "The power to destroy is not the power to create."?

This quote is attributed to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.

The power to destroy is not the power to create. - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

"The power to destroy is not the power to create."

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Power

Novelist Poet English 1797–1851

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