#destroy

There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#gun #justice #knife #long #man

Poverty is a solved problem - all they have to do is abolish taxes and regulations which cripple those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women and destroy their productive capacity, then stand back and watch the economy boom. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#back #boom #capable #capacity #cripple

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak. ↗

— August Strindberg

#cannot #consumes #destroys #end #ever

There the union of Church and State tends strongly to paralyze some of the members of the body of Christ. Here there is no such influence to destroy spiritual life and power. ↗

— Josiah Strong

#christ #church #destroy #here #influence

For a while, even in the house of good friends for dinner or for cocktails, they would really be upset. They thought I had single-handedly destroyed the best phone service in the world. ↗

— Harold H. Greene

#cocktails #destroyed #dinner #even #friends

Even in love we suffer, because in that very moment of love, Time, the insatiable Devourer, is destroying what we love...or ourselves. ↗

— Christopher Dutton

#love #time #love

No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a document. ↗

— Renata Adler

#destroys #document #ever #only #person

The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege. ↗

— Arthur Helps

#destroy #greatest #greatest privilege #her #house

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#defeated #destroyed #made #man

My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone's wrapping fish in it. ↗

— Al Capp

#being #day #destroyed #fish #next