Destructive Quotes

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I don't find any kind of tension very productive, I find it destructive, actually. — Shirley Manson
Cheating is not the American way. It is small, while we are large. It is cheap, while we are richly endowed. It is destructive, while… — Terrence McNally
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive. — Margaret Mead
Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a… — Joyce Meyer
We produce destructive people by the way we are treating them in childhood. — Alice Miller
I am convinced now that virtually every destructive behavior and addiction I battled off and on for years was rooted in my (well-earned) insecurity. — Beth Moore
If you don't find some way to discuss what's going on inside you, it can come out in other ways that are self-destructive. — Viggo Mortensen
The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan
A life without a lonely place, that is, without a quiet center, becomes destructive. — Henri Nouwen
The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy. The problem comes when healthy criticism is replaced with more… — Sandra Day O'Connor
A guy who's actually self destructive is quite fun to play. — Chris O'Dowd
The Internet has become a hate-filled town square with no limits put on destructive verbal behavior. — Bill O'Reilly
Being self-critical is good; being self-hating is destructive. There's a very fine line there somewhere, and I walk it carefully. — Daniel Radcliffe
What you don't do can be a destructive force. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive. — Theodore Roosevelt
The best method for preventing destructive cult involvement is preventative education. If students and the public at large are more aware of destructive groups beforehand… — Rick Ross
I am a Maoist sympathiser. I'm not a Maoist ideologue, because the communist movements in history have been just as destructive as capitalism. — Arundhati Roy
Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free. — Bertrand Russell
Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive… — Erwin Schrodinger

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