Destructive Quotes

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The bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century. — Unknown Author
Having books published is very destructive to writing. — Ernest Hemingway
When I consider the multitude of associated forces which are diffused through nature - when I think of that calm balancing of their energies which… — Michael Faraday
We've all got out self-destructive bad habits, the trick is to find four or five you personally like the best and just do those all… — David Lee Roth
Instead of having a set of policies that are equipping people for the globalization of the economy, we have policies that are accelerating the most… — Barack Obama
The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical. — Henry George
What does a tax do? It takes either from the producer or the consumer a more or less sizable portion of the product destined in… — Gustave de Molinari
Now we are all learning what it's like to reap the whirlwind of fossil fuel dependence... Our destructive addiction has given us a catastrophic war… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
We want our children to live in a world without the destructive power of a warming planet. — Barack Obama
A commercial civilization is money-oriented, profit-oriented. Commercial values always tend to wrench a society free of tradition.Economics from education to public service is being reorganized… — John Ralston Saul
The preservation of biodiversity is not just a job for governments. International and non-governmental organisations, the private sector and each and every individual have a… — Kofi Annan
Among the environmental trends undermining our future are shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, collapsing fisheries, disappearing species, and rising temperatures. The temperature increases… — Lester R. Brown
Man will survive as a species for one reason: He can adapt to the destructive effects of our power-intoxicated technology and of our ungoverned population… — Rene Dubos
It is necessary for every American, with becoming energy to endeavor to stop the dissemination of principles evidently destructive of the cause for which they… — Mercy Otis Warren
Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to… — James Madison
Our status as a free society and world power is not based on brute strength. When we've taken up arms, it has been for the… — Ronald Reagan
A time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. A nation that continues year after year to… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
That which offends you only weakens you. Being offended creates the same destructive energy that offended you in the first place- so transcend your ego… — Wayne Dyer
Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love too much at… — Ernest Hemingway
The subconscious mind makes no distinction between constructive and destructive thought impulses. It works with the material we feed it, through our thought impulses. The… — Napoleon Hill

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