Seeds Of Its Own Destruction Quotes

#1. A society composed of none but the wicked could not exist; it contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction, and without a flood, would be swept away from the earth by the deluge of its own iniquity.

Charles Caleb Colton

#2. For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction.

Robert W. Welch Jr.

#3. The rule of the bourgeois democrats [in pre-federal Germany], from the very first, will carry within it the seeds of its own destruction

Karl Marx

#4. Isolation, you know, carries the seeds of its own destruction because as times change, other things seep in.

Toni Morrison

#5. I am only a child, too innocent to realize that there is no salvation without darkness, no triumph that doesn't carry the seeds of its own destruction bouncing in its pocket.

Stacey Jay

#6. More than any other beauty (though it is true of all beauty except in art) passion seems to me to have the seeds of its own destruction in it.

May Sarton

#7. I believe in the value of paranoia. Business success contains the seeds of its own destruction. The more successful you are, the more people want a chunk of your business and then another chunk and then another until there is nothing left.

Andy Grove

#8. Inflexibility is the worst human failing. You can learn to check impetuosity, overcome fear with confidence and laziness with discipline. But for rigidity of mind, there is no antidote. It carries the seeds of its own destruction.

Anton Myrer

#9. The Founding Fathers and our fathers are rolling over in their graves as this great country voluntarily abandons its dreams of equal opportunity, achievement and prosperity and sows the seeds of its own destruction.

David Limbaugh

#10. The literate mind has sown the seeds of its own destruction through the creation of media that render irrelevant those "traditional skills" on which literacy rests.

Neil Postman

#11. Truth has within it the seeds of its own victory;
Lies have within them the seeds of their own destruction.

Randall Terry

#12. Your dreams are what will tear you apart. Every man is the victim of his own imagination: we all carry the seeds of our own destruction." He tapped a long finger to his forehead. "It feeds on your fears.

Mark Lawrence

#13. Dull, inert cities, it is true, do contain the seeds of their own destruction and little else. But lively, diverse, intense cities contain the seeds of their own regeneration, with energy enough to carry over for problems and needs outside themselves.

Jane Jacobs

#14. Eating vegetables, fruits and grains rarely causes total destruction of the plant or tree on which the food grew; after harvesting, seeds remain to be replanted the next season. But this certainly does not happen when an animal is slaughtered - death is final; that animal will not reproduce again!

Sharon Gannon

#15. That 1983 general election contained the telltale seeds of eventual Scottish Tory self-destruction.

Charles Kennedy

#16. Any society which suppresses the heritage of its conquered minorities, prevents their history or denies them their symbols, has sown the seeds of their own destruction.

William Wallace

#17. I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.

Martin Scorsese

#18. Seeds of destruction take root in the human heart, and even among those who long for peace, they call to our darker instincts and urge us to violence.:

Victoria Armour-Hileman

#19. Beware the seeds that are planted, even in the most fallow of fields. For those we lay with callous hands, might very well prove to be those of our ultimate destruction.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#20. I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.

Adam Ferrara

#21. It's clear to me that if we raise children with no moral compass, we are planting the seeds of our own destruction.

Glenn Beck