Destructive Quotes

I find most famous Christians to be full of themselves and of prejudice and self-loathing, masquerading as devout religious belief. I find all fundamentalism to be terrifying and very destructive.

The most destructive thing governments do is divide people against each other, all in competition over the reins of the state.

I am a Maoist sympathiser. I'm not a Maoist ideologue, because the communist movements in history have been just as destructive as capitalism.

Instead of having a set of policies that are equipping people for the globalization of the economy, we have policies that are accelerating the most destructive trends of the global economy.

We, the elders, have been patiently waiting until the last moment before quantum transformation. The destructive one-fourth must be eliminated from the social body.

Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature!

Familiarity is the most destructive of all iconoclasts.

Perfectionism is self destructive simply because there's no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal.

I dont see lines of force as being destructive, except to the extent that they are exclusively traceable through observance of the path of distorted material left in their wake.

Excessive or irrational schedules are probably the single most destructive influence in all of software

The psyche is a natural phenomenon. All aspects of the psyche, even those which seem pathological or destructive, actually serve the function of furthering our psychological development.

Because there is something difficult and destructive involved, there must be something creative involved as well. Relating to that creative aspect is the point.

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.

Being self-critical is good; being self-hating is destructive. There's a very fine line there somewhere, and I walk it carefully.

.. that a rule, which, in speculation, may seem the most advantageous to society, may yet be found, in practice, totally pernicious and destructive.

I have a pathological fear of being on my own. When I'm with my own thoughts, I start to unravel myself, and I start to think really dark thoughts, self-destructive thoughts.

Children are a house's enemy. They don't mean to be - they just can't help it. It's their enthusiasm, their energy, their naturally destructive tendencies.

The ancestor of every destructive action, every destructive decision, is a negative thought.

Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned behavior. All patterned behavior tends to go unquestioned, gathering destructive momentum.

Continued dependence on relief inducers a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber.

Vigilantly guard your mind against erroneous and destructive thought as you would guard your house against burglars and assassins.

Just remember enough never to be vulnerable again: total forgetting could be as self-destructive as complete remembering.

The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical.

A spirit of criticism, if indulged in, leads to a censoriousness of disposition that is destructive of all nobler feeling. The man who lives to find faults has a miserable mission.

I don't think there's any harm at all in allowing a kid to fantasize. In fact, I think to stop people from fantasizing is a very destructive thing indeed.

Downsizing itself is an inevitable part of any creatively destructive economy.

People like to let loose at rock concerts and it gives them an excuse to do it in a way that is not destructive to others and not really destructive to the band.

Scientology is destructive and a rip-off.

Riches naturally beget pride, love of the world, and every temper that is destructive of Christianity.

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 anti-elitist values in America, I think, are very destructive to education.

There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.

Is [Obama] the worst president ever? He's certainly the most destructive president we've had in terms of tearing apart this country and all of the freedoms that we have fought for.

Drugs and alcohol can be so destructive.

Chronic negative thinking and the emotions it invokes is, like many destructive behaviors, a form of addiction... it may not be very pleasant, but it's familiar.

There's something about love that builds up and is creative. There is something about hate that tears down and is destructive. So love your enemies.

Pure faith in the benevolece of the Divine can also degenerate into destructive forms of religion like othodoxy, fundamentalism, sectarianism, fanaticism, black magic and witchcraft.

Worry is an unhealthy and destructive mental habit.

A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing.

Inflation is not a benign element in the economy's operation. It is, as it has always been, the most dangerous and destructive form of taxation.

I'm trying to find a way to eat up time without being destructive, 'cause that's my go-to, it seems.

Fear is bound to disappear when you realize that failure is not something shameful, damaging, destructive, or painful, but something natural.

My worst habit is my fear & my destructive rationalizing.

A challenge so far-reaching in its impact and irreversible in its destructive power, that it alters radically human existence... There is no doubt that the time to act is now.

If you don't find some way to discuss what's going on inside you, it can come out in other ways that are self-destructive.

Drunkenness is deplorably destructive, but her demurer sister Gluttony destroys a hundred to her one.

Absolute discretion is a ruthless master. It is more destructive of freedom than any of man's other inventions.

And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly.

There's nothing cool about being self-destructive.

I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.