Best Own Destruction Quotes
54 Own Destruction quotes by 46 unique authors
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The so-called consumer society and the politics of corporate capitalism have created a second nature of man which ties him libidinally and aggressively to the…
— Herbert Marcuse
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You are the most dangerous kind of female the world can ever know. You carry the seeds for your own destruction and the destruction of…
— Virginia C. Andrews
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I knew that there had been times in the past-terrible times-when people had destroyed others in haste,in fear, and had brought about their own destruction
— Lois Lowry
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Your reason and your passion are your rudder and sails of your seafaring soul, if either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can…
— Khalil Gibran
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What did it avail to pray when he knew his soul lusted after its own destruction?
— James Joyce
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Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy--a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your values and does…
— Ayn Rand
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For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.
— Khalil Gibran
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At the most we gaze at it in wonder, a kind of wonder which in itself is a form of dawning horror, for somehow we…
— W G Sebald
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I know not what to call this, nor will I urge that it is a secret, overruling decree, that hurries us on to be the…
— Daniel Defoe
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People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state on innocence long after…
— James A. Baldwin
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A person does not lightly elect to oppose his society. One would much rather be at home among one's compatriots than be mocked and detested…
— James A. Baldwin
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Even then, more than a year earlier, there were neurons in her head, not far from her ears, that were being strangled to death, too…
— Lisa Genova
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Don't interfere!" The Doctor silenced her angrily. "I cannot will my own destruction.
— Peter Grimwade
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You see, evil always contains the seeds of its own destruction. It is ultimately negative, and therefore encompasses its downfall even at its moments of…
— Neil Gaiman
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I once had a patient who used to practice the most horrible tortures on himself, and when I asked him why he did such things,…
— Joanne Greenberg
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The person who takes every opportunity to "pick on" others is often mistakenly called "sadistic". In reality, this person is a misdirected masochist who is…
— Anton Szandor LaVey
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B.O.Y. means ‘Beware of You’… Be aware of your power. We have the choice to live positively or in our own destruction.
— Hayley Williams
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I see little hope for democracy as an effective form of government, but I admire the poetry of how it makes its victims complicit in…
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
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We all live under the constant threat of our own annihilation. Only by the most outrageous violation of ourselves have we achieved our capacity to…
— R. D. Laing
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Some day soon, reaper, your mouth is going to be the source of your own destruction." "That does seem likely, doesn’t it?" Tod glanced at…
— Rachel Vincent
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Once, during the drinking phase, Wendy had accused him of desiring his own destruction but not possessing the necessary moral fiber to support a full-blown…
— Stephen King
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For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.
— Janet Frame
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There exists among the intolerable degraded, the perverse and powerful desire to force into the arena of the actual those fantastic crimes of which they…
— James A. Baldwin
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We must confront this Zionist entity. All ties of all kinds must be severed with this plundering criminal entity, which is supported by America and…
— Mohammed Morsi
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For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction.
— Robert W. Welch, Jr.
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