devours

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term…

Finance, like time, devours its own children. Honore de Balzac

Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society…

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else. Charles Baudelaire