“You were destroyed by what you befriended.”

“As happens with people who love a thing too much, it destroys them.
Oscar Wilde said, 'You destroy the thing that you love.' It's the other way around. What you love destroys you.”

George Plimpton (1927–2003) journalist, writer, editor, actor

“You don't destroy what you want to
acquire in the future.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

“What have you asked the black men of the South, the black men of the whole country, to do? Why, you have asked them to incur the deadly enmity of their masters, in order to befriend you and to befriend this Government. You have asked us to call down, not only upon ourselves, but upon our children’s children, the deadly hate of the entire Southern people. You have called upon us to turn our backs upon our masters, to abandon their cause and espouse yours; to turn against the South and in favor of the North.”

Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman

“Fortune befriends the bold.”

John Dryden (1631–1700) English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century

“What if feeling good only comes after you destroy someone you hate?”

Sherwood Smith (1951) American fantasy and science fiction writer

“Someone had to be blamed. Someone had to die. (…) What you can't understand, you destroy.”

Melina Marchetta Finnikin of the Rock

“Every day America's destroyed and re-created,
America is what you do,
America is I and you,
America is what you choose to make it.”

W. H. Auden (1907–1973) Anglo-American poet

“The fact is, you don't love me, and you haven't destroyed me. You don't have what it takes to do that.”

Jeannette Walls (1960) American writer and journalist

“As a global society, befriending one another in the interchange of what we each have to offer will support a renascence of our humanity.”

Vanna Bonta (1958–2014) Italian-American writer, poet, inventor, actress, voice artist (1958-2014)