You can argue about violence. It's destructive, but people are inherently violent in a lot of ways. Abusing drugs is always bad… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
The wickedness of a loose or profane author is more atrocious than that of a giddy libertine or drunken ravisher, not only… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Not rarely, and this is especially true of wives and mothers, the motive behind assuming a disproportionate share of work and responsibility… — Hortense Odlum Copy Share Image
Implanting spiritual ideas in children is very important. Many people live their entire lives according to the concepts that are implanted in… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
There are three ways of securing a society that shall be stable as regards population. The first is that of birth control,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Even if drugs are fully as destructive as they are usually claimed to be, it is morally wrong and demonstrably more destructive… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
We all have a dark side but we keep it in its place because it's destructive. And Donald Trump has said, no,… — George Packer Copy Share Image
A living creature develops a destructive impulse when it wants to destroy a source of danger... The original motive is not pleasure… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
Philanthropic leaders genially speak of complementing government, not competing with it as if monopoly were good and competition destructive-thus unwittingly conspiring against… — Richard Cornuelle Copy Share Image
Europe is acting in a very self-destructive manner, but is doing so because it's trying to be loyal to the United States. — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Breaking with the pack may be exactly what we should be doing. Saying "no" to the dominant culture that is trapping us… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
In the west, Apollo and Dionysus strive for victory. Apollo makes the boundary lines that are civilization but that lead to convention,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Adopting the behaviors and habits of surrendered people helps us improve our relationships, feel love and gratitude, get healthier, give up destructive… — Judith Orloff Copy Share Image
Appeasers will always try to get the least dangerous person to bend to the most dangerous person. This is one of the… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
The French, unfortunately, actually believe what they say, and that has been very destructive. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Thus the creative genius may be at once nave and knowledgeable, being at home equally to primitive symbolism and to rigorous logic.… — Frank X. Barron Copy Share Image
So yes I know how angry, or naive, or self-destructive, or messed up, or even deluded I sound weaving my way through… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
Anger can serve a useful purpose if it is justified and directed appropriately. But when it's only a substitute for self-loathing and… — G. Frank Lawlis Copy Share Image
One of the most destructive things that's happening in modern society is that we are losing our sense of the bonds that… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
But in all the annals of human vice, no power is as destructive or demonic as perverted sincerity — G. B. Caird Copy Share Image
I have to be careful because there is something destructive within me, I think, and I can have a tendency to just… — Alexander Skarsgard Copy Share Image
You see, nature will do exactly what it must, and if we are a hindrance to its development, to even its destructive… — Ralph Steadman Copy Share Image
