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When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

— Victor Hugo

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit.'

— Bill Maher

To me it seems as plain as can be that the Bible declares that all the wicked will God destroy; again, that those who, during the Millennial age when brought to a knowledge of the truth, shall prove willful sinners will be punished with everlasting destruction.

— Charles Taze Russell

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.

— Euripides

This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to be destroyed on account of its wickedness.

— Origen

I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.

— Adam Ferrara

The poison of selfishness destroys the world.

— Catherine of Siena

God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.

— Samuel Butler

✗Opposing Perspectives

As we kill nature, we are killing ourselves, and God incarnate as the world as well.

— Masanobu Fukuoka

It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.

— Arthur Helps

Suicide is not an answer, it's destruction.

— Al Green