Destructive Quotes

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The longest and most destructive party ever held is now into its fourth generation and still no one shows any signs of leaving. The problem… — Douglas Adams
Love is always creative, fear always destructive. — Emmet Fox
Birth Control which has been criticized as negative and destructive, is really the greatest and most truly eugenic method, and its adoption as part of… — Margaret Sanger
I only write about stuff thatâ€™s happened to me.. stuff I canâ€™t get past personally. Luckily, I'm quite self-destructive. — Amy Winehouse
Vulgarity is not as destructive to an artist as snobbery. — Pauline Kael
Automobiles are often conveniently tagged as the villains responsible for the ills of cities and the disappointments and futilities of city planning. But the destructive… — Jane Jacobs
De Tocqueville considered the impulse toward well-being as one of the strongest impulses of a democratic society. He can't be blamed for underestimating the destructive… — Saul Bellow
Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness. — John Cage
Governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish them at will whenever… — Jefferson Davis
One of the most destructive forces in the world is love. For the following reason: The world is a conglomeration of objects, no, of events… — Kathy Acker
The possession of power over others is inherently destructive both to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised. — George Davis Herron
Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive? — Paulo Coelho
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and… — Bertrand Russell
I am convinced that policies meant to reduce alleged carbon dioxide-induced global warming will be destructive. — Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley
A challenge so far-reaching in its impact and irreversible in its destructive power, that it alters radically human existence... There is no doubt that the… — Tony Blair
To a winner, complacency and overconfidence can be destructive. To losers, desperation and despondency are just as harmful. — Bill Walsh
Because I'm moved in writing to be irrepressible. Writing to you seems like some holy cause, cause there's not enough female irrepressibility written down. I've… — Chris Kraus
Christian Zionism has become the most powerful and destructive force at work in America today. Influential in shaping Western foreign policy on the Middle East,… — Unknown Author
Conscious choice is creative. Unconscious choice is destructive. That is how we end up living other people's lives. — Sarah Ban Breathnach
We have allowed our youths to buy into a culture (hip hop) that has been perverted, corrupted and overtaken by prison culture. The music, attitude… — Jason Whitlock

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