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Quotes About Destructive

Friendship is necessary and ennobling; but impersonal despotism is destructive of all dignity and manly virtue.
~ Ragnar Redbeard
Hatred is self and other destructive
~ Raphael Cohen-Almagor
Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.
~ Mary Douglas
the crazymakers in your life share certain destructive patterns that make them poisonous for any sustained creative work.
~ Julia Cameron
So now, contended indifference before Middlesbrough against Slovan Bratislava coexisted with a craving for an art in which violent, overwhelming, hysterical and destructive emotion was the norm.
~ Julian Barnes
So now, contented indifference before Middlesbrough against Slovan Bratislava coexisted with a craving for an art in which violent, overwhelming, hysterical and destructive emotion was the norm; an art which seeks, more obviously than any other form, to break your heart. Here was my new social realism.
~ Julian Barnes
No, Kinkade," Chase said thoughtfully. "I don't think a woman can destroy you. You can't be destroyed because…there's nothing to destroy. I warrant that you just reflect whatever's near you. Like a puddle of mud. You reflect honor if you're near it. You reflect decay if you're near it. Left to your own devices, you've no moral center at all, no concern except for your own pleasure. This is the result.
~ Julie Anne Long
Anger and hate are destructive emotions and neither will change the facts.
~ Julie Garwood
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?
~ K?b? Abe
But, in general, the protective system of our day is conservative, while the free trade system is destructive. It breaks up old nationalities and pushes the antagonism of the proletariat and the bourgeoisie to the extreme point. In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade.
~ Karl Marx
Absolute discretion is a ruthless master. It is more destructive of freedom than any of man's other inventions.
~ William O. Douglas
The bulk of the totalitarian-minded in the democratic societies are men and women who are attracted to this destructive way of life for inner emotional reasons unknown to themselves.
~ Joost Meerloo
How could such a destructive man [referring to Bush] be so popular with the American people?... Not only is he poisoning our air and water - he's poisoning our political system as well.
~ Barbra Streisand
Instead of having a set of policies that are equipping people for the globalization of the economy, we have policies that are accelerating the most destructive trends of the global economy.
~ Barack Obama
My mother was cancer. She slowly destroyed everything around her. She produced two killers; me and my brother Joe.
~ Richard Kuklinski
My mother says I'm like a disease that can walk into a room and get it infected. I can destroy things in seconds.
~ Georgina Chapman
You see, nature will do exactly what it must, and if we are a hindrance to its development, to even its destructive powers to reform itself and we are in a way, we will go.
~ Ralph Steadman
Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
~ Oliver Goldsmith
All pain is per se and especially in excess, destructive and ultimately fatal in its nature and effects.
~ James Young
To suffer destructive consequences is to obey laws in human nature
~ Sunday Adelaja
violent storms. and beautiful smiles. both have electricity. both are equally destructive in nature.
~ Sanober Khan
We need to understand how destructive emotions affect us and constructive emotions can help us, so that we can maintain our peace of mind.
~ Dalai Lama
The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical.
~ Henry George
Nature is powerful and beautiful, Nature is destructive and creative, Nature is amazing and wonderful, Nature is loving and graceful.
~ Debasish Mridha