Destructive Quotes

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Destructive thoughts and emotions undermine the very causes of peace and happiness. If you think clearly about it, it makes no sense to think youâ€™re… — Dalai Lama
History has shown that a government's redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector's creation of new sources of it, can prove more… — Victor Davis Hanson
Want to know whatâ€™s more destructive than a nuclear bomb? Words. — Kim Jong-un
There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force, but the… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Everything you stand for, believe in, experience and aspire to is the result of thought. And thought is destructive because it is nothing more than… — U.G. Krishnamurti
So yes I know how angry, or naive, or self-destructive, or messed up, or even deluded I sound weaving my way through these life stories… — Lidia Yuknavitch
The moral consequences of totalitarian propaganda...are destructive of all morals because they undermind one of the foundations of all morals: the sense of and respect… — Friedrich August von Hayek
For all the unkind things said about envy, it would only be fair to acknowledge that not all envy is destructive. If envy leads us… — Sidney Greenberg
At the end of the first half-century of engine-driven flight, we are confronted with the stark fact that the historical significance of aircraft has been… — Charles Lindbergh
When we are caught up in a destructive emotion, we lose one of our greatest assets: our independence. — Dalai Lama
Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint. — Erich Fromm
We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive. — Jean de La Fontaine
What is the biggest obstacle facing the family right now? It is over-commitment; time pressure. There is nothing that will destroy family life more insidiously… — James Dobson
My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless. — Evelyn Waugh
When you're thirty-five, you can't take as much booze ... and I always got a little violent on drink...So it was kind of self-destructive suicide… — John Lennon
Under crowded conditions the friendly social interactions between members of a group become reduced, and the destructive and aggressive patterns show a marked rise in… — Desmond Morris
The character of human life, like the character of the human condition, like the character of all life, is "ambiguity": the inseparable mixture of good… — Paul Tillich
Any test that turns on what is offensive to the communitys standards is too loose, too capricious, too destructive of freedom of expression to be… — William O. Douglas
There's a world of difference between a strong ego, which is essential, and a large ego-which can be destructive. — Lee Iacocca
Whoever had known sexual jealousy, that most destructive of emotions-and this would be so for men no less than women-had known madness and had now… — Diana Trilling

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