Destructive Quotes

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The Bhagavad Gita is not as nice a book as some Americans thinkâ€¦Throughout the Mahabharata ... Krishna goads human beings into all sorts of murderous… — Wendy Doniger
The state is the most destructive institution human beings have ever devised - a fire that, at best, can be controlled for only a short… — Robert Higgs
The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person. — Frank Barron
If he had unlimited money at his disposal, he might go into the wilds somewhere and shoot big game. I never know what the big… — Hector Hugh Munro
If you love money and you want to be creative, you cannot become creative. The very ambition for money is going to destroy your creativity.… — Rajneesh
No war on the face of the Earth is more destructive than the AIDS pandemic. — Colin Powell
The existence of nuclear weapons presents a clear and present danger to life on Earth. Nuclear arms cannot bolster the security of any nation because… — Oscar Arias
The main reason we are held hostage by the most destructive technology on earth is simple: the complete lack of international resolve to ban nuclear… — C. G. Weeramantry
There cannot be forgotten the great possibilities of mass media in promoting dialogue, becoming vehicles for reciprocal knowledge, of solidarity and of peace. They become… — Pope John Paul II
Human nature being what it is, peace must inevitably be a relative condition. The essence of life is struggle and competition, and to that extent… — Javier Perez de Cuellar
We suffer more often in imagination than in reality. [We must learn to control and focus the force of our imagination on the good, bright… — Seneca the Younger
Bombing is not especially inhumane. War itself is inhumane and the bombing plane, which is used to paralyse industry and transport, is a relatively civilised… — George Orwell
When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
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 stomp through the… — Alicia Silverstone
A spirit of criticism, if indulged in, leads to a censoriousness of disposition that is destructive of all nobler feeling. The man who lives to… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Man is the most dangerous, destructive, selfish, and unethical animal on earth. — Michael Fox
I still have guilt. I will probably never get rid of that, but yes, I'm free of the compulsion and the driving need to do… — Jeffrey Dahmer
Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity. — Gary Blair
But what began in 1941 was a process of destruction not planned in advance, not organized centrally by any agency. There was no blueprint and… — Raul Hilberg
There is no easy formula for determining right and wrong livelihood, but it is essential to keep the question alive. To return the sense of… — Sam Keen

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