„To eat is to appropriate by destruction.“

— Jean Paul Sartre
„Lies and secrets, Tessa, they are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave only destruction behind.“
— Cassandra Clare
„The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consistent and 'regular' throughout is, for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only "good guys" in it, or eating cottage cheese.“
— Frank Zappa
„By eating meat we share the responsibility of climate change, the destruction of our forests, and the poisoning of our air and water. The simple act of becoming a vegetarian will make a difference in the health of our planet.“
— Thich Nhat Hanh
„The bourgeoisie today is a falling class. … By its imperialist methods of appropriation [it] is destroying the economic structure of the world and human culture generally. Nevertheless, the historical persistence of the bourgeoisie is colossal. It holds to power, and does not wish to abandon it. Thereby it threatens to drag after it into the abyss the whole of society. We are forced to tear it off, to chop it away. The Red Terror is a weapon utilized against a class, doomed to destruction, which does not wish to perish. If the White Terror can only retard the historical rise of the proletariat, the Red Terror hastens the destruction of the bourgeoisie.“
— Leon Trotsky
„In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson