Quotes About Destructive

I can tell you're admiring my febrility. I know it's appealing, I practice at it; every woman loves an invalid. But be careful. You might do something destructive: hunger is more basic than love. Florence Nightingale was a cannibal you know.

But hatred and viciousness are addictive.

To make matters worse, politicians occasionally accuse rivals of deliberately trying to harm their own country—a charge so destructive to group unity that most past societies would probably have just punished it as a form of treason.

But hatred and rage solve nothing. Like a might fire, they quickly consume whatever is fed them.Yet it can't last. Soon enough, they devour all around them and burn out, leaving nothing but a hollowed shell no longer capable of feeling anything at all. (First Guardian)

When you look at Trump, you can really see someone who's destructive to any form of life enhancement in virtually every area.

Through microscopic examination one can find in almost every life incidents or traits that can be destructive when they are magnified.

The glory of God is as destructive of evil as it is creative of good.

Through social rules and conventions and customs, internalized by its members and made into regular habits, it turns what might be socially destructive impulses into socially useful ones.

Right pain is not only constructive but also exhilarating and involves challenge, while wrong pain is destructive and causes excruciating suffering.

The tongue has the power of life and death.

it was like having a pet nuclear device.

There is some music that is so terrible that it consumes all those who approach it.

Criticism and blame are addictions. They are costly addictions, because they are the number-one destroyer of intimacy in close relationships.

hatred is like fire—it makes even light rubbish deadly.

To advocate irrationality is to advocate that which is destructive to human life.

We live on a planet that is amazing, beautiful, and full of wonder but not protected from powerful destructive forces of nature. We are capable of doing wonderful and selfless things but also self-absorbed and harmful things. This is the world we live in.

Hate is a strong word. It's also very destructive, so no - I don't hate Mark Zuckerberg.

Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.

ceasing to live the life of prayer the life of the spirit begins to fail, then those worldly things which are intended to be useful become hurtful and destructive.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy. The problem comes when healthy criticism is replaced with more destructive intimidation and sanctions.

Time has been used destructively by people of ill will much more than it has been used constructively by those of good will.

Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned behavior. All patterned behavior tends to go unquestioned, gathering destructive momentum.

El ego es como un virus informático que ataca al centro del sistema operativo.