Destructive Quotes

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Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more… — Gary Ryan Blair
We are very fortunate to live in this country, but at the same time, the reason the forces are so much more destructive here is… — Brandon Boyd
The reason that a good citizen does not use such destructive means to become wealthier is that, if everyone did so, we would all become… — Richard Stallman
Marriage is a custom brought about by women who then proceed to live off men and destroy them, completely enveloping the man in a destructive… — Richard Harris
Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end… — Arthur Henderson
I have lately returned from Harpers Ferry, to which place I was suddenly called, on the 17th instant, by causes the most disturbing and destructive… — Henry A. Wise
In this way, some film schools can be destructive. — Richard King
But you say you are conservative - eminently conservative - while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it… — George Haven Putnam
Men of authority have employed all the destructive agents around them to promote their own personal interests at the sacrifice of every just, honorable, and… — John White Geary
Mental agitations and eating cares are more injurious to health, and destructive of life, than is commonly imagined, and could their effects be collected, would… — William Falconer
The United Nations has become a largely irrelevant, if not positively destructive institution, and the just-released U.N. report on the atrocities in Darfur, Sudan, proves… — Linda Chavez
Anybody can be very destructive in that position without at all meaning to be, and I know that I have been inadvertently destructive in the… — Tobias Wolff
We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose… — Federica Montseny
Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. It has swallowed up over half a dozen countries since… — Barbara Amiel
This mass destructive weapons were sold to Iraqi government by the United States. And Mr. Rumsfeld has been one of the man responsible for this… — Jacques Verges
The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness. — Dorothy Thompson
I find drug use disrespectful, self-destructive, and weak. I want no part of it. — Davey Havok
Racism built me into a person that was set up to be self-destructive. — Jayson Blair
I find all that slightly destructive but mad love alluring. — Sienna Miller
In a fragile environment, we need to be aware of ourselves as members of a uniquely powerful species living among other species who are quite… — Andrew Motion

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