Destructive Quotes

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Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive. — Mary Douglas
I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty. — Arthur Conan Doyle
I still have highs and lows, just like any other person. What's missing is the lack of control over the super highs, which became destructive,… — Patty Duke
I'm not against extracting a modest amount of wildlife out of the ocean for human consumption, but I am really concerned about the large-scale industrial… — Sylvia Earle
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. — Albert Einstein
This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all sight of reality… — Siobhan Fahey
My story is really an affirmation of my strength and my luck. To live with a great artist like Ted Hughes or Mick Jagger is… — Marianne Faithfull
There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power. — William Henry Harrison
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created… — Stephen Hawking
But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were… — Seamus Heaney
The most destructive criticism is indifference. — E. W. Howe
This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society. — David Hume
There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body. — Douglas William Jerrold
Ethnic stereotypes are boring and stressful and sometimes criminal. It's just not a good way to think. It's non-thinking. It's stupid and destructive. — Tommy Lee Jones
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything. — Eartha Kitt
I'm trying to find a way to eat up time without being destructive, 'cause that's my go-to, it seems. — Shia LaBeouf
It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of… — Christopher Lasch
I get anxious about a lot of things, that's the trouble. I get anxious about everything. I just can't stop thinking about things all the… — Hugh Laurie
Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed… — Audre Lorde

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