Destructive Quotes
718 quotes by 593 authors
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Bill Clinton is like a lot of white politicians. They eat soul food, they party with black women, they play the saxophone, but when it…
— Sister Souljah
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Currency warfare is the most destructive form of economic warfare.
— Harry Dexter White
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The United States military is now evolving geometrically as it gains experience from near-constant fighting and grafts new technology daily. Indeed, it seems to be…
— Victor Davis Hanson
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You spend hours alone, only with your thoughts, and you torture yourself. It's a tendency of many writers to temper the self-destructive act of writing…
— Ben Gibbard
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Gambling is not as destructive as war or as boring as pornography. It is not as immoral as business or as suicidal as watching television.…
— Mario Puzo
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The belief in the probability of death with dignity is our, and society’s, attempt to deal with the reality of what is all too frequently…
— Sherwin B. Nuland
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People who avoid all criticism fail. It's destructive criticism we need to avoid, not criticism in all forms.
— Tim Ferriss
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Our age is one of transition, in which the normal channels for utilizing the daimonic are denied; and such ages tend to be times when…
— Rollo May
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The destructive impact of psychiatry upon our civilization has been given far too little attention, and the role of psychiatry in Nazi Germany almost no…
— Peter Breggin
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I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters. I find flawed characters much more interesting than perfect ones…
— Emily Giffin
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Christianity was created by some decadent and degenerated Romans as a tool of oppression, in the late Roman era, and it should be treated accordingly.…
— Varg Vikernes
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People hate what they don't understand and try to destroy it. Only try to keep yourself clear and don't allow that destructive force to spoil…
— Eva Le Gallienne
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All pain is per se and especially in excess, destructive and ultimately fatal in its nature and effects.
— James Young
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People like to let loose at rock concerts and it gives them an excuse to do it in a way that is not destructive to…
— James Young
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When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be…
— Sadie Frost
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The book is a dialogue between The Dalai Lama and a group of scientists about how we can better handle our destructive emotions and how…
— Daniel Goleman
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If you are a troublemaker…it’s our job to politically destroy you. Put it this way. As long as JB Jeyaretnam stands for what he stands…
— Lee Kuan Yew
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Let's face it, gossip is one of the world's most destructive habits, and we're exposed to it practically everywhere we go and in much that…
— Lori Palatnik
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The popular distinction between 'constructive' and 'destructive' criticism is a sentimentality: the mind too weak to perceive in what respects the bad fails is not…
— Brigid Brophy
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The most self-destructive thought that any person can have  is thinking that he or she is not in total control of his or her…
— Roger Dawson
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