It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive! — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive? — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I've really carelessly gotten out of relationships that were incredibly destructive instead of being honest. — Leslye Headland Copy Share Image
The mind is a superb instrument if used right, but when used incorrectly, it becomes very destructive. — Suman Rai Copy Share Image
There was a much more self-destructive nature in 'Appetite.' It was a going-for-it-at-all-cost thing that worked then. — Axl Rose Copy Share Image
Fear is destructive. Fear and creativity don't mix. Ultimately, it doesn't do you any good. — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
Most of our problems are related to the mind, so we have to work to reduce our destructive emotions. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I am convinced now that virtually every destructive behavior and addiction I battled off and on for years was rooted in my… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
The symbol of all art is the Prism. The goal is unrealism. The method is destructive. To break up the white light… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
Nuclear weapons are so destructive and ballistic missiles are so swift, that any substantially increased possibility of their use or any sudden… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The United Nations has become a largely irrelevant, if not positively destructive institution, and the just-released U.N. report on the atrocities in… — Linda Chavez Copy Share Image
I've made four films about the destructive nature of relationships, of secrets and lies, and I think I'm no longer interested in… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
The raising of animals for food and all that it entails is the single most destructive force impacting our planet's fragile ecosystems.… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
I only write about stuff that’s happened to me.. stuff I can’t get past personally. Luckily, I'm quite self-destructive. — Amy Winehouse Copy Share Image
One thing that I have been trying to do is bring together in places like Bosnia technologists who create ever-more destructive land… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
What I'm talking about is both political and then also extra-political. Because what Donald Trump is doing is not simply to be… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
So-called 'higher education' is a veritable magnet for second-raters and actively destructive parasites bent on promoting unsound ideas to the inexperienced and… — Doug Casey Copy Share Image
Elephants are not human, of course. They are something much more ancient and primordial, living on a different plane of existence. Long… — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share Image
Love is power, the purest power and the greatest power: Love is God. Nothing can be higher than that. But this power… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I have always felt that perhaps women have sometimes almost embraced the same values as men, and the same character as men,… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
I think people have always misinterpreted my self-destructive nature as nihilistic, because if you don't care about the world, you can't create… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
Anytime you have anyone who thinks he or she has God in their pocket, you have the potential for disaster, ... Throughout… — Charles Kimball Copy Share Image
The Greeks invented the idea of nemesis to show how any single virtue, stubbornly maintained gradually changes into a destructive vice. Our… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
When I consider the multitude of associated forces which are diffused through nature - when I think of that calm balancing of… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
It is significant that the socialist mentality is usually also an atheistic mentality, where atheism is understood not so much as the… — Roger Kimball Copy Share Image
Our whole attitude about life is money-oriented. And money is one of the most uncreative things one can become interested in. Our… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The preservation of parks, wilderness, and wildlife has also aided liberty by keeping alive the 19th century sense of adventure and awe… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Buddha says this is how one should be - no desire, because all desires are futile. They are about the future; life… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Christianity was created by some decadent and degenerated Romans as a tool of oppression, in the late Roman era, and it should… — Varg Vikernes Copy Share Image
Since opposed principles, or ideologies, are irreconcilable, wars fought over principle will be wars of mutual annihilation. But wars fought for simple… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
My aim is to lay bare and proclaim the crying and horrible guilt of the bloody doctrine of persecution as one of… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image