It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
Adolescence was invented in the 19th century to enable middle-class families to keep their children out of sweatshops. But it has degenerated… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
Making those we love happy sounds innocent as a dove, but it can be as destructive as a lion. — Florida Scott-Maxwell Copy Share Image
People who are always thinking of the feelings of others can be very destructive because they are hiding so much from themselves. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
The bread I eat in London, is a deleterious paste, mixed up with chalk, alum, and bone ashes: insipid to the taste,… — Tobias Smollett Copy Share Image
One thing I'm recognizing more and more in myself - and looking to change - is going down more of a self-destructive… — Tyler Blackburn Copy Share Image
Economics and a reliance on science and technology to solve our problems has led to an unsustainable situation where continued growth in… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
It is so difficult to, day in and day out, hear these incredibly painful stories of the destructive nature of our broken… — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share Image
Christian Zionism has become the most powerful and destructive force at work in America today. Influential in shaping Western foreign policy on… — Stephen Sizer Copy Share Image
Fear kills, want to kill. Fear is destructive. Love is creative energy. When you love you would like to create - you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I've been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I've never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Human nature being what it is, peace must inevitably be a relative condition. The essence of life is struggle and competition, and… — Javier Perez de Cuellar Copy Share Image
I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters. I find flawed characters much more interesting… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
The way we get past capitalism is by building on the healthy non-capitalist aspects of our world while we also do pitched… — Cynthia Kauffman 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
One of the main destructive forces within our family has been these runaway egos. I think if you look at any show… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
Bombing is not especially inhumane. War itself is inhumane and the bombing plane, which is used to paralyse industry and transport, is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
At my age I can handle people writing junk about me on social media, but I sometimes air "mean tweets" on my… — Gretchen Carlson Copy Share Image
Unless you are really grounded and have a true sense of reality, you can get lost in that and a lot of… — Morris Chestnut Copy Share Image
I have to admit that many of the relationships I write about are destructive, but that's the yin to the yang of… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
The attention that's being projected by men who simply watch you walking down the street, in the office, or in bed, in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
