Quotes About Destructiveness

#1. life is a gift and it's meant for the living, and we dishonor our dead by squandering that gift in favor of the destructiveness of our self-pity.

John Turner

#2. There is only one answer to destructiveness and that is creativity.

Sylvia Ashton-Warner

#3. The destructiveness of the tar sands is not inevitable. But Canadians and Albertans have become too tolerant of the politicians who compromise the nation's energy security as well as the next generation's future.

Andrew Nikiforuk

#4. The reason that a good citizen does not use such destructive means to become wealthier is that, if everyone did so, we would all become poorer from the mutual destructiveness.

Richard Stallman

#5. Look hard for ways to make little moves against destructiveness.

Andre Trocme

#6. The perspective of Love doesn't leave anybody out. Until your vision and compassion is big enough to include those who oppose you, you are simply contributing to the continuation of destructiveness . The end of separation is the salvation for all.

Adyashanti

#7. In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.

Leo Rosten

#8. I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

Douglas MacArthur

#9. When I became security advisor, I became familiar with the so-called SIOP war plans, I called in Secretary McNamara and asked him what they were hiding from me, because I couldn't believe that the National policy would foresee such a level of destructiveness.

Henry A. Kissinger

#10. There are two primary forces in this world, fear and faith. Fear can move you to destructiveness or sickness or failure. Only in rare instances will it motivate you to accomplishment. But faith is a greater force. Faith can drive itself into your consciousness and set you free from fear forever.

Norman Vincent Peale

#11. Heracles' heroic world and Deianeira's warmth and tenderness are mutually exclusive. Sophocles seeks not to vindicate the one against the other, but to dramatize the tragedy of their irreconcilability and their mutual destructiveness.

Charles Segal

#12. If fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.

Theodor W. Adorno

#13. Disease is nature's revenge for our destructiveness.

Charles Frazier

#14. The more the drive toward life is thwarted, the stronger is the drive toward destruction; the more life is realized, the less is the strength of destructiveness. Destructiveness is the outcome of unlived life.

Erich Fromm

#15. The larger society was willing to let the frustrations born of racism's violence become internalized and consume its victims. America's horror was only expressed when the aggression turned outward, when the ghetto and its controls could no longer contain its destructiveness.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#16. I think self-destructiveness is given a really bad rap. I think it can also mean self-reflection and poetic sensiblity. It can mean empathy, hedonism, a libertarianism.

Courtney Love

#17. Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.

Wilhelm Reich

#18. I see the mind of the five-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and creativeness.

Sylvia Ashton-Warner

#19. Everyone in your culture knows this. Man was born to turn the world into paradise, but tragically he was born flawed. And so his paradise has always been spoiled by stupidty, greed, destructiveness, and shortsightedness.

Daniel Quinn

#20. It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth.

Helen Garner

#21. To live without the creative potential of our own destructiveness is to be a cardboard angel.

Sheldon B. Kopp

#22. But insight doesn't necessarily produce self-control. Sometimes you just see your destructiveness more clearly.

Keith Ablow

#23. [Lear] is the universal image of the unwisdom and destructiveness of paternal love at its most ineffectual, implacably persuaded of its own benignity, totally devoid of self-knowledge, and careening onward until it brings down the person it loves best, and its world as well.

Harold Bloom

#24. To hate destructiveness, one must hate life as well: only death is an image of undistorted life ... organic life is an illness peculiar to our unlovely planet.

Theodor Adorno

#25. P4- no amount of dollars can remove the inherent destructiveness off welfare institutions once the professional hierarchies off these have convinced society that their ministrations are morally necessary.

Ivan Illich

#26. Destructiveness comes only when life isn't lived. People who can live their lives don't destroy themselves.

Pearl S. Buck

#27. Destructiveness is the outcome of an unlived life.

Erich Fromm

#28. If we continue to set human borders and the economy as our highest priorities, we will never come to grips with the destructiveness of our activities and institutions.

David Suzuki

#29. In this hope, among the things we teach to the young are such truths as the transcendent value of the individual and the dignity of all people, the futility and stupidity of war, its destructiveness of life and its degradation of human values.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#30. We think we know."
"Know? That's worse than an atom bomb, and always was.

William Golding

#31. Excessive self-criticism is a bad habit and extraordinarily self-destructive. Don't be your own worst enemy!

Bryant McGill

#32. Nothing is as horrendous as imagining the times of happiness from an environment which is that of hell.

Lynne Sharon Schwartz

#33. true acting out is an expression of intense underlying affects without conscious awareness of them, not just another undesirable and difficult patient behavior

James A. Chu