Destructive Quotes

One of the most destructive anti-concepts in the history of moral philosophy is the term 'duty.

The appetite for power is old and irrepressible in humankind, and in its action almost always destructive.

How could such a destructive man [referring to Bush] be so popular with the American people?... Not only is he poisoning our air and water - he's poisoning our political system as well.

[The decision to travel to Washington and deliver the speech] has injected a degree of partisanship, which is not only unfortunate, I think it's destructive of the fabric of the relationship

God desires to change us from the inside out. Renewing our minds, starving our self-destructive tendencies, and teaching us to form new habits.

The Internet has become a hate-filled town square with no limits put on destructive verbal behavior.

Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.

Once one becomes a man, he can and must make his own decisions. But I do offer warning. Even a good thing can become destructive if taken to excess.

Wars of opinion, as they have been the most destructive, are also the most disgraceful of conflicts.

At the end of the first half-century of engine-driven flight, we are confronted with the stark fact that the historical significance of aircraft has been primarily military and destructive.

A guy who's actually self destructive is quite fun to play.

[U]nless a woman is held, by man, safe within the bounds of belief, she becomes inevitably a destructive force.

To reduce destructive emotions we need to strengthen constructive emotions. For example, to counter anger we cultivate love and compassion.

As human beings we have the same experience of destructive and constructive emotions. We also have a human mind capable of developing wisdom. We all have the same Buddha nature.

All the forms of double taxation in the current system are punitive and self-destructive because they are literally destroying people's incentive to provide that seed corn for future economic growth.

The current economic system is fundamentally flawed and inevitably destructive.

When you look at Trump, you can really see someone who's destructive to any form of life enhancement in virtually every area.

There emanates from superlatives a destructive force.

There is no monster more destructive than the inventive mind that has outstripped philosophy.

I'd been used to this idea of destructive performance art instead of a slick, good-sounding show. So, I became frustrated as I felt I'd been doing the shows wrong. That sucked.

Having books published is very destructive to writing.

Breaking with the pack may be exactly what we should be doing. Saying "no" to the dominant culture that is trapping us in destructive ways of living might be the most life-serving thing we can do.

Some come to a teacher for power. They still have all the desires, angers and jealousies of an unevolved person. Consequently, they become destructive both to themselves and to others.

There is a time you can't turn it back. When a person is very destructive, when they hate you tremendously, you have to disassociate with them.

Without balance and wisdom, power becomes very destructive. It creates unhappiness and not happiness. To simply see a teacher to gain power is a mistake.

When willpower is not guided, it's terrible. Hitler had a lot of will. But he used it for destructive purposes because he lacked wisdom.

People project a grey energy that is very destructive to weaken you, to drain you - just as the snake uses position to capture its victim.

The attention that's being projected by men who simply watch you walking down the street, in the office, or in bed, in most cases, is going to be extremely destructive.

The United States of America will not permit the world's most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons.

My answer would be definite yes! Destructive atheism, in my view and the view of the Church, is part of a much larger picture - cosmic warfare, that is, between God and Evil, between God and Satan.

The creative instincts, the love force must be nourished with every beat of our hearts until they overbalance the destructive instincts.

When you learn how much bycatch comes from shrimp [and how destructive it is] - I'm not going to eat shrimp anymore.

Alcohol is a pervasive fact of life, but an extraordinary fact-pleasurable and destructive, anathematized and adulated, and deeply ambiguous ... the genie in the bottle.

Doubt, not self-reflection, comes from a destructive energy, and when it rears its head, I talk to it like a lunatic.

The third peculiarity of aerial warfare was that it was at once enormously destructive and entirely indecisive.

Office romances are few, short, and not usually destructive.

With proper tactics, nuclear war need not be as destructive as it appears.

It's very hard to be good. It is self-destructive thinking to think that there is too much good.

The destructive power of a lie is stronger than the truth.

Can't react every time you're insulted. Free people absorb destructive things and refuse to be destroyed

Damnosa quid non imminuit dies? What does not destructive time destroy?

The idiot had shot their own dog. That’s what happened when the destructive potential of a man’s weapons exceeded his intelligence.

It's important for me to fight for principles. But I am not willing to cope with the nastiness of politics anymore and the endless destructive confrontations that it leads to.

The ideas of [ Le Corbusier ] that actually found their way into practice were deeply destructive - for instance, the tower-in-a-park, which mutated into the vertical slums of the late 20th century.

The autocracies of the Arab world have been as economically destructive as they've been politically repressive.

Racism is a destructive and artificially-manufactured element in the collective human psyche designed to fragment the natural desire of human beings to know and love one another

Racism built me into a person that was set up to be self-destructive.

It's so important to embrace what you have because if you don't, that can be the root of very self-destructive habits, which I think people waste a lot of energy on.

There were days that I literally had no reason to get out of bed. It just was so destructive for me.

The Internet provides very serious challenges to our ability to keep from children the kinds of things that are destructive to them