Destructive Quotes

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The Greeks invented the idea of nemesis to show how any single virtue, stubbornly maintained gradually changes into a destructive vice. Our success, our industry,… — Sam Keen
The problem isn't that conservatives are wrong about the efficiency of markets or the creativity of enterprise. It's that they have made false idols of… — Joe Conason
If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in their capacity to… — Fredric Jameson
We have thought of peace as passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not the most strenuous… — Mary Parker Follett
There is nothing wrong with you just because you haven't yet met people who share your interests or outlook on life. Unless you are doing… — Alexandra Robbins
Evil isnâ€™t the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and itâ€™s a hell of a lot… — Jim Butcher
Conservatives say the government can't end poverty by force, but they believe it can use force to make people moral. Liberals say government can't make… — Harry Browne
Usurpers always bring about or select troublous times to get passed, under cover of the public terror, destructive laws, which the people would never adopt… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The function of high school, then, is not so much to communicate knowledge as to oblige children finally to accept the grading system as a… — Jules Henry
We will establish ourselves in Palestine whether you like it or not...You can hasten our arrival or you can equally retard it. It is however… — Chaim Weizmann
In Maybe I Will, Laurie Gray writes about important topics that teens need to talk about, including sexual assault, friendship, and alcoholism or self-destructive behaviors… — Cheryl Rainfield
Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another. — Anne Sullivan Macy
Changing the destructive things you say to yourself when you experience the setbacks that life deals all of us is the central skill of optimism. — Martin Seligman
The passive ironic attitude is not cool or romantic, but pathetic and destructive. — Robert Greene
Radical feminism is the most destructive and fanatical movement to come down to us from the Sixties. This is a revolutionary, not a reformist, movement,… — Robert Bork
I want a drink. I want fifty drinks. I want a bottle of the purest, strongest, most destructive, most poisonous alcohol on Earth. I want… — James Frey
I came away from the forums with a profound concern about the highly addictive and destructive nature of methamphetamine. Families are torn apart, lives are… — Greg Walden
Democracy is a kingless regime infested by many kings who are sometimes more exclusive, tyrannical and destructive than one, even if he be a tyrant. — Benito Mussolini
And violence is impractical, because the old eye for an eye philosophy ends up leaving everybody blind .. It is immoral because it is a… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Fear is bound to disappear when you realize that failure is not something shameful, damaging, destructive, or painful, but something natural. — Sri Chinmoy

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