Destructive Character Quotes

#1. The destructive character knows only one watchword: make room; only one activity: clearing away ...
The destructive character is young and cheerful. For destroying rejuvenates in clearing away traces of our own age ...

Walter Benjamin

#2. The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.

Walter Benjamin

#3. There is no such thing as senility when it comes to envy, greed laziness, wrath and pride. It's her destructive character from childhood." ~ Angelica Hopes, If I Could Tell You

Angelica Hopes

#4. ...the personal and the political are often hard to disentangle.

Yelena Baraz

#5. There i was in late middle age, cut loose in a thoroughly looted, bankrupt nation whose assets had been sold off to foreigners, a nation swamped by unchecked plagues and superstition and illiteracy and hypnotic tv, with virtually no health services for the poor. where to go? what to do?

Kurt Vonnegut

#6. I think one of the most destructive things in terms of American security has been for all of our leaders, without exception in both parties, to identify Osama bin Laden as a gangster or as a madman, as an apocalyptic character who's out to destroy our civilization.

Michael Scheuer

#7. Nothing is more destructive of individual character than for a man to lose all faith in his own abilities for the prosecution of his work.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

#8. Neither parenting, Christian education, heritage, nor fine church involvement can alter anyone's essential sin nature. To lie, make self-centered choices, be destructive, or be deeply hurtful to oneself or others may be "out of character," but it is not outside of any human being's nature.

Rick Horne

#9. The character of human life, like the character of the human condition, like the character of all life, is "ambiguity": the inseparable mixture of good and evil, the true and false, the creative and destructive forces-both individual and social.

Paul Tillich

#10. Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach humanity our proper relation to the environment where we must live.

Clarence Darrow

#11. In a pine tree,/ A few yards from my window sill,/ A brilliant blue jay is springing up and down, up and/ down./ On a branch./ I laugh, as I see him abandon himself/ To entire delight, for he knows as well as I do/ That the branch will not break.

James Wright

#12. I'm the captain of the Variety Club over in England, and so I'm playing golf for them once a week but doing odd bits.

Kevin Whately

#13. The best way to detect the destructive element in someone is to watch closely their behavioural pattern when given authority over poverty.

Michael Bassey Johnson