Destructive Quotes · Page 37

Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing…

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

I can tell you that I am not self-destructive. I'm not a person who wants to die. I'm a person who has…

— Whitney Houston

Well, I would - if they realized that we - again if - if we led them back to that stalemate only…

— Ronald Reagan

The function of high school, then, is not so much to communicate knowledge as to oblige children finally to accept the grading…

— Jules Henry

Having children is not an act of God. It's not like you're walking down the street and pregnancy strikes you; children are…

— Walter E. Williams

We have thought of peace as passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not…

— Mary Parker Follett

It tore us up emotionally hearing someone say to the judge and the cameras that this is a band that creates music…

— Rob Halford

If one denies that, when the meaning is true, then the meant is what is so, one rejects propositional truth. If the…

— Bernard Lonergan

Let's face it, gossip is one of the world's most destructive habits, and we're exposed to it practically everywhere we go and…

— Lori Palatnik

Love makes us instinctively reach out to God and other people. Lust, on the other hand, is anything but godly and celebrates…

— Jeffrey R. Holland

There is a falsehood that some are born with an attraction to their own kind, with nothing they can do about it.…

— Boyd K. Packer

The opposite of liberal is stingy. The opposite of radical is superficial. The opposite of conservative is destructive. So I declare that…

— R. A. Lafferty

It's particularly important that we reach out to everybody in our countries, those who feel disaffected, those who feel left behind by…

— Barack Obama

Indian nationalism is not exclusive, nor aggressive, nor destructive.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The subconscious mind makes no distinction between constructive and destructive thought impulses. It works with the material we feed it, through our…

— Napoleon Hill

We the human species, are confronting a planetary emergency-a threat to the survival of our civilization that is gathering ominous and destructive…

— Al Gore

I am confirmed in my belief that war is utter destructive violent chaos. There is no "art," no "order(s)," no "just war."…

— Maxine Hong Kingston

Continued dependence on relief inducers a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

I've gained so much confidence as a woman from figuring out that I don't want to be destructive. I don't want to…

— Alicia Silverstone

With every pill we have prescribed for us we should also be given a creative prayer, a suggested way to correct our…

— Ernest Holmes

The anti-elitist values in America, I think, are very destructive to education.

— Joshua Jackson

Everything is destroyed by its own particular vice: the destructive power resides within. Rust destroys iron, moths destroy clothes, the worm eats…

— Menander

Congressman [Richard ] Icord headed a House on American activities committee. It was called the House Internal Security Committee. And he put…

— Nat Hentoff

“The most important part of discernment is pinpointing the forces to be reckoned with, both the constructive and destructive.”

— Criss Jami

When we look into the human heart we see the lust, the greed, the hate, the pride, the anger, and the jealousies…

— Ravi Zacharias