Without knowing it the girl was arguing on the side of the world's expert criminologists, who hold that to destroy an offender cannot benefit society so much as to redeem him.
The subtle and deadly change of heart that might occur in you would be involved with the realization that a civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.
The sight of so many ruins destroys any desire to build shanties; all this ancient dust makes one indifferent to fame.
The framers were realists; they recognized that the best constitution in the world could be distorted and destroyed by men determined to do so.
Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves.
I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.
She couldn't avoid being serious about things she cared for, and happiness made her grave at the thought of all the things which might destroy it.
People with passion are people who will destroy - for a man's passion is not true until he proves how much he's willing to sacrifice for it.
Hands should never be to used to hurt and destroy anyone but should be used to better our world! Let's HELP brighten humanity...not help darken it!
War was the ultimate chaos, a pounding, soul-destroying snarl, ending in blown-apart men lying unburied on the cold earth. There was nothing more cosmically chaotic than war.
Couples often live out years of falsehood trying to protect and save a relationship, all the while destroying any chance of real relationship.
A brick could be used to destroy your mannequin lover. It’s the only proper thing to do. Remember, I was the one who warned you about dating a politician.
From a scientific perspective there is some indication that a nuclear war could deplete the earth's ozone layer or, less likely, could bring on a new Ice Age - but there is no suggestion that either the created order or mankind would be destroyed in ...
I don't think Estonians ever really hated Russians. It was more, 'Leave us alone.' We can't change what is past. We can't blame them for what their parents have done. We never hated them. They didn't destroy us that bad.
History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it
Heaven and Earth are meeting in a storm that, when it's over, will leave the air purer and the leaves fertile, but before that happens, houses will be destroyed, centuries- old trees will topple, paradises will be flooded.
Ma? I think you have the spirit of husband-repelling. You are too hard, ma, you will not find a husband. But my pastor can destroy that spirit.
[O]ther thinkers have philosophised since the time of Plato, but that does not destroy the interest and beauty of his philosophy
I still love him so much I'll hide any amount of conjugated estrogen in his food. So much I'll do anything to destroy him.
After all this time, he had hope, and then hope was gone, and he hates himself for giving in to hope. He, who exists only to kill the hopes of others, could not destroy the hope within himself.
