Destructive Quotes
But in all the annals of human vice, no power is as destructive or demonic as perverted sincerity
Somehow don't be bored, but if you must, use it in action. Use its destructive potential.
The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.
Sincerity doesn't mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.
Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.
There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue.
Radical changes of identity, happening suddenly and in very brief intervals of time, have proved more deadly and destructive of human values than wars fought with hardware weapons.
We want our children to live in an America that isn't burdened by debt, that isn't weakened by inequality, that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet.
The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.
Sometimes it would be nice to just have some red wine with dinner, but it's not worth the risk. I have a great life, a great situation. Why would I want to risk self-destructive behaviour?
Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.
Most of our problems are related to the mind, so we have to work to reduce our destructive emotions.
The information was kept hidden for the same reason we keep matches from children. In the correct hands, fire can provide illumination... but in the wrong hands, fire can be highly destructive.
Remember that this is not something we do just once or twice. Interrupting our destructive habits and awakening our heart is the work of a lifetime.
You see, nature will do exactly what it must, and if we are a hindrance to its development, to even its destructive powers to reform itself and we are in a way, we will go.
To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful, and so destructive to life that human beings should shun it ... as they once shunned bubonic plague.
My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
There is a big logical jump between acknowledging the destructive nature of hyperinflation and arguing that the lower the rate of inflation, the better.
I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
Aggression is inherently destructive of relationships. People and ideologies are pitted against each other, believing that in order to survive, they must destroy the opposition.
It is so difficult to, day in and day out, hear these incredibly painful stories of the destructive nature of our broken immigration system.
Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly.
Nothing is more destructive than the gap between people's perceptions of their own day-to-day economic well-being and what politicians and statisticians are telling them about the economy
Words are so awesome. Words are containers for power. They carry either creative power or destructive power.
Grace doesn't lead us into destructive behavior. Sin does. And grace is the only remedy for sin. The kindness of God leads to repentance.
Pain prompts us to change behavior that is destructive to ourselves or to others. Pain can be a highly effective instructor.
Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive.
Every rebellion which is not in its own nature self-destructive, is an expression of the divine spirit.
People who avoid all criticism fail. It's destructive criticism we need to avoid, not criticism in all forms.
All pain is per se and especially in excess, destructive and ultimately fatal in its nature and effects.
Fear, he said, ran all of our lives. Fear, he said, after religion, was the most destructive force in the world.
Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive?
The Clinton paradox: How could a president so intelligent, so compassionate, so public-spirited and so conscious of his place in history act in such a stupid, selfish and self-destructive manner?
Deplorable, a rancid smelling aphrodisiac . . . it fosters almost totally negative and destructive reactions in young people.
I am convinced now that virtually every destructive behavior and addiction I battled off and on for years was rooted in my (well-earned) insecurity.
I am convinced that policies meant to reduce alleged carbon dioxide-induced global warming will be destructive.
The truth of God may well be likened to a narrow path skirted on either side by a dangerous and destructive precipice: in other words, it lies between two gulfs of error.
Every combat is the bloody and destructive measuring of the strength of forces, physical and moral; whoever at the close has the greatest amount of both left is the conqueror.
One of the most destructive things that's happening in modern society is that we are losing our sense of the bonds that bind people together - which can lead to nightmares of social collapse.
The world is beset by many problems, but in my opinion, this hijacking of our brain's reward centers by electronic media is potentially one of the most destructive.
There is nothing more American than brutal violence. The country was built on it, revels in it and shows every evidence of clinging to it with the crazed, destructive strength of an obsessive lover.
.. that a rule, which, in speculation, may seem the most advantageous to society, may yet be found, in practice, totally pernicious and destructive.
As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.
A Romantic ideology that predates rock glorifies the self-destructive artist as someone who's too honest and delicate for this world... It's not an easy job, and its stresses can take their toll.
The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical.