Quotes About Destructive Power

#1. It just goes to show you that the "R" and the "D" are meaningless - what really matters is whether someone believes in the spirit and unending compassion of the individual, or instead in the destructive power of the collective.

Glenn Beck

#2. Today we are going to talk about words. You know, words are containers for power. They carry creative or destructive power. They carry positive or negative power. We can choose our words and we should do it carefully.

Joyce Meyer

#3. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force, but the destructive power of modern weapons eliminates even the possibility that war may serve as a negative good.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#4. We will establish ourselves in Palestine whether you like it or not ... You can hasten our arrival or you can equally retard it. It is however better for you to help us so as to avoid our constructive powers being turned into a destructive power which will overthrow the world.

Chaim Weizmann

#5. A terrible independence opens the door to destructive power of sin

Sunday Adelaja

#6. Sand, which didn't even have a form of it's own. Yet, not a single thing could stand against this shapeless, destructive power. The very fact that it had no form was doubtless the highest manifestation of its strenght, was it not?

Kobo Abe

#7. 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.

Laura Mullen

#8. By rejecting faith in Jesus Christ, America has also rejected God's protective hand, which until recently, sheltered this nation from harm. We have invited the devil which all his diabolical and destructive power in our daily lives.

Bill Bright

#9. How many extraordinary phenomena like this, so foreign to human comprehension, might lie concealed in space? Do we need to travel everywhere bringing destructive power on our ships, so as to smash anything that runs counter to our understanding?

Stanislaw Lem

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

Henry Rollins

#11. Two Immeasurable Things: The healing power of love and the destructive power of hate.

Steve Maraboli

#12. 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.

Tony Blair

#13. No siege engine could equal the destructive power of Zenobia sitting so close.

Meljean Brook

#14. Everything is destroyed by its own particular vice: the destructive power resides within. Rust destroys iron, moths destroy clothes, the worm eats away the wood; but greatest of all evils is envy, impious habitant of corrupt souls, which ever was, is, and shall be a consuming disease.

Menander

#15. 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.

Barack Obama

#16. Words are so awesome. Words are containers for power. They carry either creative power or destructive power.

Joyce Meyer

#17. She stared at me. "Fly, ;ole, in an airplane, which you were warned never to do lest Zeus strike you out of the sky, AND carrying a weapon that has more destructive power than a nuclear bomb?"
"Yeah," I said. "Pretty much exactly like that.

Rick Riordan

#18. The future will be very bright and beautiful if we learn to use the power of love and kindness, not the destructive power of atomic weapons.

Debasish Mridha

#19. He dusted off the shoulder tab and stared at it, so light in his hand, so inconsequential. It was hard to believe that a shred of cloth could have so much destructive power locked away in it.

Mark Mills

#20. The destructive power of pride is that it countenances nothing higher than itself. Because of an inherent fault in our nature, man's bias is on the side of error. In our willful desire to live independently of God, we have severed the lifeline that flows from the source of all life.

Billy Graham

#21. The daimonic is any natural function which has the power to take over the whole person. Sex and eros, anger and rage, and the craving for power are examples. The daimonic can be either creative or destructive and is normally both.

Rollo May

#22. And so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure.

Stephen King

#23. This power makes no attempt to discriminate between destructive thoughts and constructive thoughts, that it will urge us to translate into physical reality thoughts of poverty, just as quickly as it will influence us to act upon thoughts of riches.

Napoleon Hill

#24. Banal, prepackaged sentiments neatly wrapped with a bow on top, like she got them at the resentful-wife store. And when she used them, you could tell how much she was tapping into their universal power. She was destroyed and destructive and had to say something.

Yelena Akhtiorskaya

#25. Over the years, I have seen the power of the oceans to excite, feed, and sustain people. I have also seen them undergo a growing onslaught of attacks, from destructive fishing practices to rising acidification.

Frances Beinecke

#26. No-mind is consciousness without thought. Only in that way is it possible to think creatively, because only in that way does thought have any real power. Thought alone, when it is no longer connected with the much vaster realm of consciousness, quickly becomes barren, insane, destructive.

Eckhart Tolle

#27. Fear is destructive and defeating, but faith is constructive and creative.

Seth Adam Smith

#28. I thought of the transcendent beauty of the first panel, and tried to understand how the ability to create such wondrous beauty could have become so perverted, so destructive. With power, my mind whispered.

Isobelle Carmody

#29. Cassandra Nova impersonating Xavier: Imagine the responsibility of all that destructive potential. The power to crack the firmament and extinguish suns ... Imagine that in the wrong hands.

Grant Morrison

#30. I had the honor to meet Nelson Mandela, and I heard him explain his forgiveness of his captors of 27 years by saying hatred and bitterness is destructive - the power is in love and forgiveness.

Dick Gephardt

#31. There are two kinds of power. One is power over, which is always destructive, and the other is power from within, which is a transcendent and creative power.

Starhawk

#32. Your thought should be creative and not destructive; it should be full of hope and faith for a more excellent future.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#33. 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.

Frederick Lenz

#34. We live in a world which respects power above all things. Power, intelligently directed, can lead to more freedom. Unwisely directed, it can be a dreadful, destructive force.

Mary McLeod Bethune

#35. All in the eye of the beholder - Some of the most destructive forces in the world (Fire & Water), can also have the power of beauty.

Martin R. Lemieux

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

Barbara Tuchman

#37. We have the power to abstain from destructive behavior.

Sylvia Earle

#38. When sex and money are fused in the service of exploitation, the two create an even more destructive form of rage of a type often exhibited in narcissistic and potentially psychopathic populations.

Debra L. Kaplan

#39. Every creative force has an equal power to destroy.

Curtis Bill Pepper

#40. But in all the annals of human vice, no power is as destructive or demonic as perverted sincerity

G. B. Caird

#41. There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.

William Henry Harrison

#42. 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.

Frederick Lenz

#43. No matter how hard Evil tries, it can never quite match up to the power of Good, because Evil is ultimately self-destructive. Evil may set out to corrupt others, but in the process corrupts itself.

John Connolly

#44. Well, I would - if they realized that we - again if - if we led them back to that stalemate only because our retaliatory power, our seconds, or strike at them after our first strike, would be so destructive they they couldn't afford it, that would hold them off.

Ronald Reagan

#45. The more we explore, understand, and even come to appreciate our own self-destructive mental attitudes, the more control we gain over our minds.

Karuna Cayton

#46. The possession of power over others is inherently destructive both to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

George Davis Herron

#47. The insatiable need for heartless power and ruthless control is the telltale sign of an uninitiated man - the most irresponsible, incompetent and destructive force on earth.

Michael Leunig

#48. The more isolated a person is, the more destructive the power of sin over him.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#49. The dark net is a world of power and freedom: of expression, of creativity, of information, of ideas. Power and freedom endow our creative and our destructive faculties. The dark net magnifies both, making it easier to explore every desire, to act on every dark impulse, to indulge every neurosis.

Jamie Bartlett

#50. When you do things with the power of passion and power of love, you create destructive beauty.

Debasish Mridha

#51. Aphrodite just kept smiling.
Because she was just doing what a goddess does-the same way that a tornado rips houses apart or a fire burns down a forest.

L.J.Smith

#52. When you have power and use it for destructive purpose: you don't deserve it.

Udai Yadla

#53. Knowledge is power, and in the wrong hands, power can be destructive.

Siobhan Davis

#54. We come out of Jewish-refugee, Holocaust stock, which means that our predecessors fled and we learned that systems of power are vulnerable to corruption and can treat the defenseless in a destructive fashion.

Eugene Jarecki