Destructive Quotes

Destructive Quote of the day

Do not let yourself be contaminated by others' ideas of what is best for you. Cast aside the shackles of destructive thinking.

We live in a world which respects power above all things. Power, intelligently directed, can lead to more freedom. Unwisely directed, it can be a dreadful, destructive force.

Inherited hatred (i.e. hatred your parents schooled you in) is not only stupid, it is destructive - why make your only driving force hate? Seems really f***ing dumb to me.

Want to know what’s more destructive than a nuclear bomb? Words.

One must learn to give up momentary, uncertain and destructive pleasure for delayed, restrained, but dependable pleasure.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.

Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.

Fear is the destructive energy in man. It withers the mind, it distorts thought, it leads to all kinds of extraordinarily clever and subtle theories, absurd superstitions, dogmas, and beliefs.

Changing the destructive things you say to yourself when you experience the setbacks that life deals all of us is the central skill of optimism.

The great difference between the two feelings is that love is always creative, and fear is always destructive.

Governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish them at will whenever they become destructive of the ends for which they were established.

Self pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.

Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process.

You cannot stop destructive actions by others, but you can stop your own destructive reactions to them

Don't like to do anything half-heartedly, even if it is a wicked and self-destructive avocation like smoking cigars

We will glorify war-the world's only hygiene, milliterism, patriotism , the destructive gesture of freedom-bringers, beautiful ideas worth dying for, and scorn for woman

I'm a very emotional person, a person of real extremes, and that's often destructive both to myself and others.

The bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century.

Nothing is more destructive than the charge of artillery on a crowd.

The United Nations has become a largely irrelevant, if not positively destructive institution, and the just-released U.N. report on the atrocities in Darfur, Sudan, proves the point.

That which offends you only weakens you. Being offended creates the same destructive energy that offended you in the first place- so transcend your ego and stay in peace.

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.

Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.

Ego is one of the biggest weapons that is used to take us down. It's self-destructive. It's a problem on all levels - even regular people can have big ego problems.

Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.

Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.

I think a human animal is far more wild and unpredictable and dangerous and destructive than any other animal.

Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected American Society within the last fifty years.

When change is necessary, not to change is destructive!

The primary contribution of government to this world is to elicit, entrench, enable, and finally to codify the most destructive aspects of the human personality.

We've all got out self-destructive bad habits, the trick is to find four or five you personally like the best and just do those all the time.

When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.

I find drug use disrespectful, self destructive and weak. I want no part of it. I believe in complete respect for myself and others.

It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth.

Hatred is the most destructive force on earth. It does the most damage to those who harbor it.

The way to overcome negative thoughts and destructive emotions is to develop opposing, positive emotions that are stronger and more powerful.

Under crowded conditions the friendly social interactions between members of a group become reduced, and the destructive and aggressive patterns show a marked rise in frequency and intensity.

The three most destructive words that every man receives when he's a boy is when he's told to 'be a man'.

Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.

The more isolated a person is, the more destructive will be the power of sin over him, and the more deeply he becomes involved in it, the more disastrous is his isolation.

I have a theory that theories are destructive.

When we are caught up in a destructive emotion, we lose one of our greatest assets: our independence.

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.

This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all sight of reality and reason.

Wisdom and Love must balance mutually. Wisdom without Love it's a destructive element. Love without Wisdom can leads us to error: love is law, but conscious love.

Our expensive welfare state is fueled by the destructive notion that 'greed' is when you want to keep your own money but 'compassion' is when you want to take somebody else's.

The symbol of all art is the Prism. The goal is unrealism. The method is destructive. To break up the white light of objective realism, into the secret glories which it contains.

The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life.