Destructive Quotes

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Drugs and alcohol can be so destructive. — Kyan Douglas
Alcohol is a pervasive fact of life, but an extraordinary fact-pleasurable and destructive, anathematized and adulated, and deeply ambiguous ... the genie in the bottle. — Griffith Edwards
The past year's natural disasters have highlighted the invaluable contributions of volunteers in our communities. They have volunteered their time, energy and skills to save… — Kofi Annan
Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious variety and fecundity. But inspect… — David Hume
Wars of opinion, as they have been the most destructive, are also the most disgraceful of conflicts. — Charles Caleb Colton
The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A Senate vote on gay marriage is a destructive pretension against the plan of God — Pope Francis
There is a falsehood that some are born with an attraction to their own kind, with nothing they can do about it. They are just… — Boyd K. Packer
What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast. — May Sarton
The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble. — Walter Benjamin
Sincerity doesn't mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere. — Edward Albee
When we look into the human heart we see the lust, the greed, the hate, the pride, the anger, and the jealousies that are so… — Ravi Zacharias
The most destructive thing governments do is divide people against each other, all in competition over the reins of the state. — Anthony Gregory
There should be no distasteful tasks in one's life. If you just hate to do a thing, that hatred for it develops body-destructive toxins, and… — Walter Russell
Aggression is inherently destructive of relationships. People and ideologies are pitted against each other, believing that in order to survive, they must destroy the opposition. — Margaret J. Wheatley
I don't think there's any harm at all in allowing a kid to fantasize. In fact, I think to stop people from fantasizing is a… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Is it not amazing that at a time when the rights of humanity are defined and understood with precision, in a country, above all others,… — Patrick Henry
Curtailment of free speech is rationalized on grounds that a more compelling American tradition forbids criticism of the government when the nation is at war...… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Human beings never think for themselves... For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told-and become upset if they are… — Michael Crichton
For me, campaigning and good business is also about putting forward solutions, not just opposing destructive practices or human rights abuses. — Anita Roddick

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