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“Destruction is like a snow-ball rolled down a Hill, for its Bulk encreases by its own swiftness and thus Disorder spreads.”
“No one can win against kipple," he said, "except temporarily and maybe in one spot, like in my apartment I've sort of created a stasis between the pressure of kipple and nonkipple, for the time bei...”
“Now you see what kind of creatures we are, Hugh. Eating things alive. That's what we do. How can you have much respect for mankind, or any belief in the social struggle?”
“And I just walked away. Again and again, I walked away as her world fell down around her. As they destroyed her. We destroyed her.”
“The use of tobacco is one of the most evident of all the retrograde influences of our time. It invades all classes, destroys social life, and is turning, in the words of Mantegazza, the whole of Eu...”
“There are two types of fear:There is a fear of something that is presently before you, be it a monster under your bed or a knife welding maniac pounding his fist through your door. Its a fear that ...”
“The water and the wind will wear the wood down, until only water and wind remain.”
“Humanity will destroy itself, body and soul, before it will learn a simple lesson.”
“I wanted myself. I wouldn't let what was mine be destroyed.”
“An avalanche doesn't look back at the damage it causes.”
“You have to love someone completely to be willing to destroy them.”
“Because there is no challenge, there is no reason to work hard. And with no reason to work hard, we all have become lazy. Lazy people are like cancer. They spread. Before you know it, the entire co...”
“Anyone who would rejoice to see someone else live a life of destruction is also, living an unrighteous life.”
“Always remember: Power in the wrong hands can destroy the owner. The same power that gave victory to Samson is what destroyed him.”
“Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.”
“I think Ill dismember the world and then Ill dance in the wreckage.”
“They have nothing to give. They have no power of making. All their power is to darken and destroy. They cannot leave this place; they are this place; and it should be left to them. They should not ...”
“Here they [the Jaredites] became a flourishing nation; but, giving way in time to internal dissensions, they divided into factions, which warred with one another until the people were totally destr...”
“We were most amused by destroying what we'd taken.”
“to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.”
