Quotes About Destructive

The concept of physical beauty as a virtue is one of the dumbest, most pernicious and destructive ideas of the Western world, and we should have nothing to do with it.

On Betrayal , by Harold Pinter] …the sleight of hand that Harold has performed is that, while dealing with a triangular relationship, he's talking about something else ...If you start with self-betrayal, it gradually infects everything like a dreadful, destructive virus.

Hatred is like a plague. It is all-consuming, and it springs from man to man.

Science is a tool, and if we were an esentially kind and peaceful species, it would not occur to us to use this tool for destructive purposes.

Excessive jealousy can be extraordinarily destructive. But moderate jealousy, not an excess or an absence, signals commitment.

Carley saw two forces in life--the destructive and constructive. On the one side greed, selfishness, materialism: on the other generosity, sacrifice, and idealism.

All thoughts of revenge are born of the pain of helplessness. 'I suffer' becomes 'You will suffer'. And let us not lie: Vengeance is invigorating. It focuses and enlivens us, and it quashes grief because it turns the emotion outward. In grief we go to pieces. In revenge we come together as a single pointed weapon aimed at a target. However destructive in the long run, it serves a useful purpose for a time.

It will appear from history that a partiality to continental states has always been destructive to the interest of this country.

Fear not for the world for it will survive on; it is the peoples I worry for and their tendencies to destroy themselves, each other, and the worlds in which they reside; this destructive mentality must change if the Humanic Exploration of The Cosmos is to be successful.

the fire doesn't know for who is burning.

Some people poison everything they touch.

hatred is a terrible thing. Hatred hurts the hater far more than its object.

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.

I'm all for teaching about important concepts like consent; I'm also very aware of how damaging and destructive it can be to be a victim of sexual harassment.

If anti-Semitism is a variety of racism, it is a most peculiar variety, with many unique characteristics. In my view as a historian, it is so peculiar that it deserves to be placed in a quite different category. I would call it an intellectual disease, a disease of the mind, extremely infectious and massively destructive.

So many of our destructive behaviors take root in an emotional void, an emptiness that calls out for something to fill it.

Keep yourselves far from envy; because it eats up and takes away good actions, like a fire eats up and burns wood.

I destroy myself by augmenting unnecessary self-deprecating understandings of beauty. But that's also what keeps me satisfied.

Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing.

Self pity is most destructive & self punishable emotion.Self pity gets you no where. It makes victim of being away from reality. One must have courage to accept oneself with pride & strive to present best of himself.

We loved each other with a premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives.

Positive criticism is feedback given with the purpose of helping another person to grow and to develop. Negative criticism is intended to hurt and often to defame and to destroy.

Dr. Eric Cassell, an internist at Cornell University, concluded about his patients, "If I had to pick the aspect of illness that is most destructive to the sick, I would choose the loss of control.

Anger is as poisonous as arsenic, and it rots you from the bones out.