Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

Written poetry is worth reading once and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature and poetry and all that is spiritual.

Poetry fettered fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry painting and music are destroyed or flourish.

Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered but they only make calculations for their own benefit.

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed for if you merely offend them they take vengeance but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.

Passion you see can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.