Quotes About Self-destruction

No, you do not have to live as a man; it is an act of moral choice. But you cannot live as anything else—and the alternative is that state of living death which you now see within you and around you, the state of a thing unfit for existence, no longer human and less than animal, a thing that knows nothing but pain and drags itself through its span of years in the agony of unthinking self-destruction.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

En la medida en que un hombre se guía por su juicio racional, actúa en concordancia con los requisitos de su naturaleza y, en esa medida, consigue una forma humana de supervivencia y bienestar; en la medida en que actúa de forma irracional, actúa como su propio destructor.

Soy yo quien te ha destruido desde el principio, ayudándote.

No hay valor más alto que la propia estima, pero lo habéis invertido en obligaciones falsificadas y ahora vuestra moralidad os tiene en una trampa en la que os veis obligados a proteger la propia estima, luchando por el credo de la autodestrucción.

men will not cease to desire the impossible and will not lose their longing to destroy—so long as self-destruction and self-sacrifice are preached to them as the practical means of achieving the happiness of the recipients.

There are some people who hate for no reason at all. They just simply hate. They do not realize that their unjustified hatred inevitably turns inward to destroy them. Yes, it is self-destructive in the long run.

For people in power to think that mutual self-destruction has been foreordained in holy writ is not, obviously, a comforting thought.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. —Abraham Lincoln

They will love me for that which destroys me.

Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true.

Qué más quieren si ya salen de noche, practican el sexo y hacen lo que les da la gana? ¿Por qué además han de destruirse? ¿Es eso libertad?

Mamoon went on, "The news I bring is to say that, man being the only animal who hates himself, the likely fate of the world is total self-destruction." He raised his glass. "All the best then, my friends. Here's to a happy apocalypse." "Happy apocalypse," murmured the other guests, obediently.

I've always turned my anger inwards towards self-destruction.

Most of us have heard of the power of positive thinking but very few have heard of the power of negative thinking. They both are very powerful but take us in totally opposite directions. Just the way positive thinking empowers people to achieve new heights, negative thinking propels people towards self-destruction.

you are not responsible for the world's ills. You can't carry the blame for others or their future consequences. None of us can. That's the road to self-destruction.

You can't carry the blame for others or their future consequences. None of us can. That's the road to self-destruction.

Maybe, but I'm illustrating that you are not responsible for the world's ills. You can't carry the blame for others or their future consequences. None of us can. That's the road to self-destruction.

Not to be content with Life is the unsatisfactory state of those which destroy themselves; who being afraid to live, run blindly upon their own Death, which no Man fears by Experience.

I am like a table that eats its own legs off because it's fallen in love with the floor.

I love Tris the Divergent, who makes decisions apart from faction loyalty, who isn't some faction archetype. But the Tris who's trying as hard as she can to destroy herself … I can't love her.

Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction.

God doesn't get angry because he doesn't get his way. He gets angry because disobedience always results in self-destruction. What kind of father sits by and watches his child hurt himself?

We frequently react to people who are destroying themselves; we react by learning to destroy ourselves.