#destroy

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#destroy #thing #who

The doctors realized in retrospect that even though most of these dead had also suffered from burns and blast effects, they had absorbed enough radiation to kill them. The rays simply destroyed body cells - caused their nuclei to degenerate and broke their walls. ↗

— John Hersey

#blast #body #broke #burns #caused

For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike. ↗

— Hesiod

#both #destroyed #faith #men #want

Therefore, until the day I die, I am going to do what I can, regardless of the cost to me, to try to stop this awful corruption that is destroying our beloved democracy. ↗

— John Jay Hooker

#awful #beloved #corruption #cost #day

There were periods when I sometimes made fires in a large, open fireplace that lasted about two weeks, which was how long it took to burn my compositions. So there has been an awful lot that I have destroyed. ↗

— Alan Hovhaness

#awful #been #burn #compositions #destroyed

Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it. ↗

— Vernon Howard

#before #crash #destroy #halt #inner

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#desires #destroy #destruction #ends #entrusts

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#develop #fierce #forest #human #men

For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

#destroy #end #first #first time #future

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. ↗

— John Quincy Adams

#america #destroy #does #go #monsters