All men possess in their bodies a poison which acts upon serpents; and the human saliva, it is said, makes them take to flight, as though they had been touched with boiling water. The same substance, it is said, destroys them the moment it enters their throat.
Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.
The detail is as important as the essential is. When it is inadequate, it destroys the whole outfit.
Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being
Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.
Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.
Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
No faction is better or worse than any other. All come from the same mould; they are all products of capitalist influence in the working class movement. And they are a poison that destroys our Party and the working class movement in Korea.
I believe that the development of language - of naming, categorization, conceptualization - destroys our ability to see as we age.
Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon It works, on e'er self-transmutative form, Common to now the living, now the dead.
The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
What feeds me destroys me.
What nourishes me also destroys me.
I wonder if I will ever have the strength to hold onto something. Or if I will always be someone who destroys.
Peevishness may be considered the canker of life, that destroys its vigor and checks its improvement; that creeps on with hourly depredations, and taints and vitiates what it cannot consume.
Giving into anger destroys the soul.
Surely if living creatures saw the results of all their evil deeds, they would turn away from them in disgust. But selfhood blinds them, and they cling to their obnoxious desires. They crave pleasure for themselves and they cause pain to others; when death destroys their individuality, they find no peace; their thirst for existence abides and their selfhood reappears in new births. Thus they continue to move in the coil and can find no escape from the hell of their own making.
The mechanism of violence is what destroys women, controls women, diminishes women and keeps women in their so-called place.
Nothing harms or destroys us but the wrong use of that liberty of choice which God has entrusted to us.
The reflection and experience of many years have led me to consider the holy writings not only as the most authentic and instructive in themselves, but as the clue to all other history. They tell us what man is, and they alone tell us why he is what he is: a contradictory creature that seeing and approving of what is good, pursues and performs what is evil. All of private and public life is there displayed. . . . From the same pure fountain of wisdom we learn that vice destroys freedom; that arbitrary power is founded on public immorality.