Quotes About Destructive

Maybe even sadder is the willingness to give your whole life producing items of no social benefit, or even destructive, like slot machines, tawdry luxury goods or nuclear weapons. Is that what a man wants to do with his one single chance at life? Money is not just about paying bills, it must also be connected with making some contribution to life, others and history.

Perhaps that's why faith is so rare and religion so widespread: because religion is very often a means to maintain our familiar image of God, even when it's pathological and destructive. We feel better with what we know, even when it does us in.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

We want our children to live in an America that isn't burdened by debt, that isn't weakened by inequality, that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet.

The power of a volcano when it erupts is so evident, so visible, so palpable.

A terrible independence opens the door to destructive power of sin

Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

for days or even weeks. It isn't rare to find destructive, even criminal behavior. There's such a big change, in fact, that two or three hundred years ago people with temporal lobe disorders were often considered to be possessed by

Such warnings are not to be taken lightly, and it behooves every chess parent, chess organizer, and chess instructor to be mindful of the game's destructive power—to work on tapping into chess's positive Benjamin Franklin forces while avoiding its corrosive Bobby Fischer forces.

You have to love someone completely to be willing to destroy them.

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it

Jealousy is cruel as a tomb, its embers are embers of fire.

Grace doesn't lead us into destructive behavior. Sin does. And grace is the only remedy for sin. The kindness of God leads to repentance.

It makes me almost hope I'm not a genius; they must be very wearying to have about - and awfully destructive to the furniture.

The willfully ignorant are wont to follow this inclination that leads back to the animal they were but can no longer be, because it allows escape from the trials of self-knowledge and the demands of discrimination. Not wanting to know is the most powerful and destructive of forces, ultimately resulting in that self-indulgent cowardice that alone makes it possible for people to allow and participate in all the injustices and crimes of the world.

I can work with passion because it is creative, but not with lust, for it is destructive only.

It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!

gape at the blank space where 0001's words were, and a chill runs up my back as it dawns on me—what this oasis on the dark web, this place to vent our most destructive thoughts, could potentially be. I remember my last conversation with Matt—how he had said, You doing websites for hit men, now? Matt, always smarter than he sounds.

Ego is one of the biggest weapons that is used to take us down. It's self-destructive. It's a problem on all levels - even regular people can have big ego problems.

The autocracies of the Arab world have been as economically destructive as they've been politically repressive.

I found popularity through self-destruction, and that can be quite addictive.

The world is beset by many problems, but in my opinion, this hijacking of our brain's reward centers by electronic media is potentially one of the most destructive.

Submission reaches the end of its tether when it becomes destructive.