Destroys

Famous quotes containing the word destroys:

    Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilisation. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honour, generosity and beauty.... Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.
    George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    At school boys become gluttons and slovens, and, instead of cultivating domestic affections, very early rush into the libertinism which destroys the constitution before it is formed; hardening the heart as it weakens the understanding.
    Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)