Top 100 Quotes About Destructive
#1. We need leadership books that offer information as well as inspiration. Pop leadership is one of the most destructive forces today.
Paul Gibbons
#2. I [Lorna Craig] would say that teaching a girl that her salvation depends on her having sexual relations with a married man is inherently destructive." Such relationships, Craig argues bitterly, should be considered "a crime, not a religion.
Jon Krakauer
#3. We tend to read each other's books in sizeable chunks as they are written. I don't know that you could say we are ruthless with each other - in fact, I suppose we are very kind. There are ways to make suggestions which are not destructive.
Jonathan Kellerman
#4. A terrible independence opens the door to destructive power of sin
Sunday Adelaja
#5. I'm constantly exploring spirituality, sexuality, different aspects of love, whether it's romantic love or the love you have for your children. And love can be as devastating and destructive as it can be rejuvenating and life-giving. I guess I try to capture all of that.
Madonna Ciccone
#6. It was time to bring out the world destructive weapons. It was now time to hit him where it would do the biggest damage, his pride.
Ottilie Weber
#7. 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
#8. For eons, humans have struggled to find less destructive ways of living together.
Margaret J. Wheatley
#9. How can we expect to heal the world if we do not first heal ourselves? Society is a reflection of our actions and our behavior, which would explain why our violent and destructive nature correlates with a violent and destructive society.
Joseph P. Kauffman
#10. Hidden sins and problems are destructive to us, and if we long to grow, we would want them exposed and healed.
Henry Cloud
#11. No wonder so many sermons are devoted exclusively to "spiritual" subjects. If one is living by the tithes of history's most destructive economy, then the disembodiment of the soul becomes the chief of worldly conveniences.
Wendell Berry
#12. Shame is much more likely to be the cause of destructive behavior than the cure. Guilt and empathy are the emotions that lead us to question how our actions affect other people, and both of these are severely diminished by the presence of shame.
Brene Brown
#13. The most important part of discernment is pinpointing the forces to be reckoned with, both the constructive and destructive.
Criss Jami
#14. The truth of God may well be likened to a narrow path skirted on either side by a dangerous and destructive precipice: in other words, it lies between two gulfs of error.
Arthur W. Pink
#15. 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
#16. Reject without regret whatever seems on reflection wrongheaded, dull, destructive, or irrelevant to your vision. It's just as important to be able to discriminate between helpful and unhelpful criticism as it is to be able to write.
Janet Burroway
#17. Mental agitations and eating cares are more injurious to health, and destructive of life, than is commonly imagined, and could their effects be collected, would make no inconsiderable figure in the bills of mortality.
William Falconer
#18. She sings a dark destructive song.
Euripides
#19. The appetite for power is old and irrepressible in humankind, and in its action almost always destructive.
Barbara Tuchman
#20. 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.
Brandon Sanderson
#22. We have the power to abstain from destructive behavior.
Sylvia Earle
#23. If we can find ways to love life and be joyful without being wasteful or destructive
that's what's important.
Natalie Portman
#24. Having children is not an act of God. It's not like you're walking down the street and pregnancy strikes you; children are a result of a conscious decision. For the most part, female-headed households are the result of short-sighted, self-destructive behavior of one or two people.
Walter E. Williams
#25. 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.
#26. YOU DO NOT need to be a victim of worry. Reduced to its simplest form, what is worry? It is simply an unhealthy and destructive mental habit.
Norman Vincent Peale
#28. The destructive effects of video games are not on boys' cognitive abilities or their reaction times, but on there motivation and their connectedness with the real world.
Leonard Sax
#29. The problem with life is, we often do things that will ultimately be self-destructive and make us unhappy, yet in that moment it seems like the best idea in the world. You have to be careful of moments - they're tricksy things.
Sophie Dahl
#30. The most destructive thing governments do is divide people against each other, all in competition over the reins of the state.
Anthony Gregory
#31. If you want a commercial success - it's the confusion of commerce with art. A successful play is not considered to be the best written. It is the one that sells the most tickets. Those standards are destructive [to theatre].
Edward Albee
#32. A nation which fails to adequately remember salient points of
its own history, is like a person with Alzheimer's. And that can be a
social disease of a most destructive nature.
S.M. Sigerson
#33. temper is the most destructive of human faults. It supplants trust with fear; it poisons love; it breeds aversion or indifference; it sterilizes emotion.
Susan Hertog
#34. Grace doesn't lead us into destructive behavior. Sin does. And grace is the only remedy for sin. The kindness of God leads to repentance.
Tullian Tchividjian
#35. In a sacred ground like marriage, you find yourself out of it at certain times for reasons unknown that can be destructive. There could be a demon that kind of comes out and overtakes you.
David Boreanaz
#36. Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly.
Walter Darby Bannard
#37. Almighty God teach you my dear brother...more wit and knowledge than to be taken in by a good for nothing destructive flirt and devil.
Cecil Woodham-Smith
#38. When a depressed person shrinks away from your touch it does not mean he is rejecting you. Rather he is protecting you from the foul, destructive evil which he believes is the essence of his being and which he believes can injure you.
Dorothy Rowe
#39. The idea that IT professionals don't need business acumen is a destructive myth.
Al Kuebler
#40. Real peace is as creative and as pure as war is destructive; and to find that peace, one must understand beauty.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#41. But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based.
Seamus Heaney
#42. Usually, destructive pleasure-seeking behavior arises as an outburst of pent-up desire, and not as the expression of authentic desire.
Charles Eisenstein
#43. The protection of evil must be the most self-destructive job.
Alice Walker
#44. Nazi Germany was so destructive to Judaism not only for the loss of life, but because many who survived began to see the practice of Judaism as somewhat of a health hazard.
Jon Stewart
#45. Because there is something difficult and destructive involved, there must be something creative involved as well. Relating to that creative aspect is the point.
Chogyam Trungpa
#46. The raising of animals for food and all that it entails is the single most destructive force impacting our planet's fragile ecosystems. Our planet simply cannot sustain the greed of billions of human beings who are eating other animals.
Sharon Gannon
#47. 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
#48. Unfortunately, we are a species with schizoid tendencies, and like an old lady who has to share her house with a growing and destructive group of teenagers, Gaia grows angry, and if they do not mend their ways she will evict them.
James E. Lovelock
#49. Everyone has to have a spirituality and everyone does have one, either a life-giving one or a destructive one.
Ronald Rolheiser
#50. The bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century.
Philip Shabecoff
#51. The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those of the body.
[Lat., Morbi perniciores pluresque animi quam corporis.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#52. A spiritual partnership is between people who promise themselves to use all of their experiences to grow spiritually. They use their emotions to show them how to create constructive and healthy and joyful consequences instead of destructive and unhealthy and painful consequences.
Gary Zukav
#53. I hate being forced to do things. I hate people telling me what to do, so I'll do the complete opposite. It's a bit self-destructive sometimes.
Sky Ferreira
#54. A discussion becomes destructive when it begins to generate more heat than light.
M. Scott Peck
#55. We cannot but feel uneasy about the losses caused by humanity themselves. Apart from the losses of life and property in destructive wars, the environment and natural resources are also being destroyed by human hands.
Nong Duc Manh
#56. 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
#57. 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.
Paul Johnson
#58. If these people harbored secrets that might destroy them, inviting strangers to stay in Roseland was self-destructive.
Dean Koontz
#59. 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.
Gerard Verschuuren
#60. Under crowded conditions the friendly social interactions between members of a group become reduced, and the destructive and aggressive patterns show a marked rise in frequency and intensity.
Desmond Morris
#61. Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#62. 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.
Michael Crichton
#63. AUTOSUGGESTION is the agency of control through which an individual may voluntarily feed his subconscious mind on thoughts of a creative nature, or, by neglect, permit thoughts of a destructive nature to find their way into this rich garden of the mind.
Napoleon Hill
#64. 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.
Delia Ephron
#65. I think the main thing I remembered throughout all of filming it was just that she just was extremely self-destructive. I think everybody can relate to that a little bit. She doesn't like herself.
Shannyn Sossamon
#66. A tolerance that no longer distinguishes between good and evil would become chaotic and self-destructive, just as a freedom that did not respect the freedom of others or find the common measure of our respective liberties would become anarchy and destroy authority.
Pope Benedict XVI
#67. We must take the money out of politics, and end psychopathic, self-destructive government and corporate madness.
Bryant McGill
#68. 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
#69. A commercial civilization is money-oriented, profit-oriented. Commercial values always tend to wrench a society free of tradition.Economics from education to public service is being reorganized on the self-destructive basis of self-interest.
John Ralston Saul
#70. I release all fears and doubts. I accept myself and create peace in my mind and heart. I now choose to free myself from all destructive fears and doubts. I am loved and I am safe.
Louise Hay
#71. I'm so sick of sitting on this fucking thing," she sighed, finding a comfortable spot. "After they're born, let's burn the couch."
"Or donate it," Aaron said, bringing her a glass of water.
"Don't ruin my destructive groove with your good sense.
Bijou Hunter
#72. Ignorantly Violate the Laws of Universe Brings Destructive Result to Individual Lives
Sunday Adelaja
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. A relationship wants to destroy itself and will work toward this end. When two lovers first meet, a destructive sequence begins.
Matthew Revert
#76. To suffer destructive consequences is to obey laws in human nature
Sunday Adelaja
#77. It is very often asserted that fear is destructive. Yet this is not entirely true; when fear is felt about things that truly threaten security, it is protective. It is very fortunate that humans have an almost unlimited capacity for learning fears; otherwise we would have been eliminated long ago.
Smiley Blanton
#78. The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white - who find in that paranoid vision an excuse for counterproductive and ultimately self-destructive attitudes and behavior.
Thomas Sowell
#79. No siege engine could equal the destructive power of Zenobia sitting so close.
Meljean Brook
#80. I lay back against the pillows and stared up at the ceiling. I hated myself. I thought, I am just a destructive force in the world. Look at all the bodies I leave behind me. *
Augusten Burroughs
#81. I'm talking about just as an ongoing, everyday matter of daily life, one of the most destructive things if not the most is radical liberalism, leftism. And it is clear that they are making great strides in corrupting once-great institutions and once-great traditions.
Rush Limbaugh
#82. Ignoring negative things that need to be changed is destructive and does nothing to alleviate negativity. Instead, we should focus on the way we're treating other people in our brief interactions with them.
Tom Rath
#83. 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
Jane Urquhart
#84. Shameless actually good since it gives a kind of freedom. We consider the old, functionless shame destructive. Today, if you have a strong sense of shame you also have a strong desire to overcome it. And that's when you can write.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#85. Nothing that you do in science is guaranteed to result in benefits for mankind. Any discovery, I believe, is morally neutral and it can be turned either to constructive ends or destructive ends. That's not the fault of science.
Arthur William Galston
#86. The science tells us that if we fail to reduce global warming pollution, global temperatures will rise to dangerous levels and unleash devastating extreme weather events and accelerate destructive sea level rise.
Frances Beinecke
#87. The world is beset by many problems, but in my opinion, this hijacking of our brain's reward centers by electronic media is potentially one of the most destructive.
Andrew Weil
#88. For me, campaigning and good business is also about putting forward solutions, not just opposing destructive practices or human rights abuses.
Anita Roddick
#89. What we call 'normal' [sane] is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection and other forms of destructive action on our experience" (R. Laing, 1967, p. 27).
Michael Guy Thompson
#90. A computer can be a useful and indispensable tool. But if we allow it to devour our time with vain, unproductive, and sometimes destructive pursuits, it becomes an entangling net.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#91. How to overcome destructive criticism? Just love a little more. That's all.
Sri Chinmoy
#92. The way you dress or the car you drive or what you spend is to impress other people with how, I guess, successful and rich you are. But you're not, and you shouldn't, and who gives a damn what other people think anyway. So, that mentality, I think, is very destructive.
Aaron Patzer
#93. The coal mining industry is very destructive and it doesn't have to be.
Kevin Richardson
#94. Self-Evaluation is healthy and constructive. Denial and self-delusion is DESTRUCTIVE.
Michelle Cook-Hall
#95. Sociability belongs to the most dangerous, even destructive inclinations, since it brings us into contact with beings the great majority of whom are morally bad and intellectually dull or perverted.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#96. but, like an alcoholic or a fan of the Dave Matthews Band, he ultimately couldn't control his self-destructive addiction.
Nick Offerman
#98. A miserable, self-destructive, death rocker ... better to burn out than to fade away.
Kurt Cobain
#99. We are very fortunate to live in this country, but at the same time, the reason the forces are so much more destructive here is because they are faceless.
Brandon Boyd
#100. Sometimes it would be nice to just have some red wine with dinner, but it's not worth the risk. I have a great life, a great situation. Why would I want to risk self-destructive behaviour?
Kristin Davis
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