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Quotes About Destructive

Anger is just anger. It isn't good. It isn't bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters. It's like anything else. You can use it to build or to destroy. You just have to make the choice.
~ Jim Butcher
Hate is powerful. Hate can be eternal. Hate can be manipulated. And hate can be created.
~ Christie Golden
I think of these qualities as metaphorical, you know? So black magic is whatever leads people to the dark side—their own greed or insecurity that makes them do destructive things.
~ Christina Baker Kline
Borderlines may destroy what is good and loved by their children because they are intensely jealous of the loved object.
~ Christine Ann Lawson
Love is benign only when it gets what it wants. Otherwise love can be far more destructive than mindless sex.
~ Christopher Bram
Las personas que están dispuestas a sacrificar su propio bienestar por un noble idea probablemente acabarán exigiéndoles un sacrificio parecido a otros no tan dispuestos a hacerlo. Un sistema político que no puede funcionar sin mártires es un sistema político malo y destructivo.
~ Heda Margolius Kovaly
Envy is the coward side of Hate, and all her ways are bleak and desolate.
~ Henry Abbey
The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive its organization is necessarily tyrannical.
~ Henry George
Envy's a green-eyed monster that comes hissing hot from hell.
~ Leslie Meier
Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.
~ lewis c s ii
Anger can be a useful emotion; it's built into our genetic code to help with self preservation. But it can also be destructive, even when it is justified.
~ Michael Hayden
Just like if you leave energy free and uncontrolled and unregulated, it may become useless and destructive. Similarly, 'shakti swaroopa stree'- woman as the epitome of power - does not really need freedom but a meaningful role with protection and channelisation.
~ Yogi Adityanath
My first relationship at 15 made me really, really mature because it was so destructive and intense. We were inseparable for three years and I was completely and utterly besotted. But then it all fell apart and it took me a long time to get over it.
~ Mathew Horne
Ideology that believes government is bad, and that public institutions and places are not valuable, is as destructive as corporate greed.
~ Cynthia Dill
The anti-elitist values in America, I think, are very destructive to education.
~ Joshua Jackson
Usurpers always bring about or select troublous times to get passed, under cover of the public terror, destructive laws, which the people would never adopt in cold blood. The moment chosen is one of the surest means of distinguishing the work of the legislator from that of the tyrant.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.
~ George Best
Whatever it is that leads human beings to hate, to destroy, and to kill has taken on a collective force like never before, as technology and globalization now give it the capacity to not just strike, but to strike us all, together, as one.
~ Marianne Williamson
One of the main destructive forces within our family has been these runaway egos. I think if you look at any show business family, that struggle exists.
~ Rufus Wainwright
When I was at my most outrageous and destructive, I alienated almost everybody.
~ Bobcat Goldthwait
The book is a dialogue between The Dalai Lama and a group of scientists about how we can better handle our destructive emotions and how to overcome them.
~ Daniel Goleman
There is no such thing as "healthy" competition within a knowledge organization; all internal competition is destructive. The nature of our work is that it cannot be done by any single person in isolation. Knowledge work is by definition collaborative. The necessary collaboration is not limited to the insides of lowest-level teams; there has to be collaboration as well between teams and between and among the organizations the teams belong to.
~ Tom DeMarco
Authoritarian management is obsessed with time. It is destructive of slack and inclined to goad people into outperforming their peers. And it makes learning impossible.
~ Tom DeMarco
There is no such thing as "healthy" competition within a knowledge organization; all internal competition is destructive. The nature of our work is that it cannot be done by any single person in isolation. Knowledge work is by definition collaborative.
~ Tom DeMarco