Destructive Quotes

Blessed is the healthy nature; it is the coherent, sweetly co-operative, not incoherent, self-distracting, self-destructive one!

Reviews are destructive by their very nature.

I can get very depressed by a review that is unfair, unreasonable, and totally destructive.

I think the worst way to go is to have somebody think they speak for God. If you look at history, every nation that has operated as if it spoke for God has become violently destructive.

The city has always been an embodiment of hope and a source of feeling guilt; a dream pursued, and found vain, wanting, and destructive.

Captain Nemo pointed to this prodigious heap of shellfish, and I saw that these mines were genuinely inexhaustible, since nature's creative powers are greater than man's destructive instincts.

Christians were regarded as separated from society and therefore destructive of the Greco-Roman way of life.

I was really, really wild in my early twenties and a bit self-destructive.

a weak and irresolute disposition is often more destructive than determined vice.

Yes, Louise Brooks was beautiful and intelligent, and she could be very funny, but obviously there was a deep insecurity there, a real destructive rage and immaturity.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (whose mother died ten days after she was born) wrote a novel that anticipates Semmelweis's discovery and serves as a parable for the destructive power of decaying matter.

I've really carelessly gotten out of relationships that were incredibly destructive instead of being honest.

I guess the characters I play may be at the more destructive edge of the spectrum, more damaged or whatever, but I find a lot of female roles uninteresting.

Many of our threats are imaginary. The habits and even obsessions that we develop to keep them away are destructive and undermine our moods constantly.

Indian nationalism is not exclusive, nor aggressive, nor destructive.

For eons, humans have struggled to find less destructive ways of living together.

The idea is to identify a destructive thought pattern, then simply label it and watch it and let it pass by whenever it appears in your mind.

Religion is passionate, reckless, destructive, idol-smashing. It's a martyr burning at the stake. It's a crown of thorns and a cross.

Through microscopic examination one can find in almost every life incidents or traits that can be destructive when they are magnified.

The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on, and the current will run with destructive fury when there are no barriers to break its force.

Kindness that allows barriers to one's relationship with God to spring up is self-destructive.

I am confirmed in my belief that war is utter destructive violent chaos. There is no "art," no "order(s)," no "just war." No matter what the ideologies, wars are the same.

I think that passion if really intense is always destructive if not to the two involved, always to other people.

Human intelligence was more trouble than it was worth. It was more destructive than creative, more confusing than revealing, more discouraging than satisfying, more spiteful than charitable.

Europe is acting in a very self-destructive manner, but is doing so because it's trying to be loyal to the United States.

The notion of love as a potentially destructive and potentially redemptive human force is something that comes across in all my books.

Digital [photography] has sped up the process to a point that it's a bit self-destructive. It is like driving by a new neighborhood without stopping for a walk. Special discoveries need time.

I can't think of a single area where [Barack] Obama is not destructive.

If we can find ways to love life and be joyful without being wasteful or destructive--that's what's important.

Language is the most beautiful and destructive thing because it allows you to express yourself, but it totally confuses everything.

ACLU has become eccentric and destructive.

In football, hate can be a beautiful thing; sustaining and nourishing, quite unlike other manifestations of an otherwise destructive emotion.

For me, acting was a way of taking destructive energy and doing something productive with it, and in that way it was quite a life saver.

Citizenship means every four years you put a mark somewhere and you go home and let other guys run the world. It's a very destructive ideology.

At some time in their careers, most good historians itch to write a history of the world, endeavor to discover what makes humanity the most destructive and creative of species.

The French, unfortunately, actually believe what they say, and that has been very destructive.

I've always known a lot of very bad people, destructive, brutes of a certain kind. Then I've seen these lovely impulses and what not, and they've stayed with me and comforted me.

Vulgarity is not as destructive to an artist as snobbery.

It becomes increasingly clear that we won’t be free of self-destructive patterns unless we develop a compassionate understanding of what they are.

For writers that rehearsal period is death. It is the most destructive thing of all to a script.

While all too many people live in dire poverty, others are caught up in materialism and lifestyles which are destructive of family life and the most basic demands of Christian morality.

It was an addiction. A pointless, self-destructive addiction. But really, is there any other kind?

[Jill Stein] want a global treaty to halt climate change that adds teeth and ends destructive energy extraction.

Philanthropic leaders genially speak of complementing government, not competing with it as if monopoly were good and competition destructive-thus unwittingly conspiring against the public interest.

Raising or caring for children requires sacrifice and service, which, I believe, heals us from the destructive forces of self-centeredness.

God gives us what we want. For people who want nothing to do with peace, joy, reconciliation and peace... God will give you what you want. I see people make unbelievably destructive choices.

The passive ironic attitude is not cool or romantic, but pathetic and destructive.

Everyone has a need for significance; and if we can't make that possible, or even probable, in our society, then it will be obtained in destructive ways.

Our age is one of transition, in which the normal channels for utilizing the daimonic are denied; and such ages tend to be times when the daimonic is expressed in its most destructive form.

One of the main destructive forces within our family has been these runaway egos. I think if you look at any show business family, that struggle exists.