Destructive Quote by David Hume

The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“I cannot subscribe to the perverted reasoning that society may advance and strengthen the rule of law by the expenditure of morally innocent lives…

— Robert H. Jackson

Some rule out of a lust for ruling; others, so as not to be ruled:Mto these it is merely the lesser of two evils.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“What is to be done with the millions of facts that bear witness that men, consciously, that is fully understanding their real interests, have…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

No maxim can be more pernicious than that which would teach us to consult the temper of the times, and to tell only so…

— William Godwin

But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency,…

— John Stuart Mill

“We are so little affected by things which are habitual, that we consider this idea of the decision of a majority as if it…

— Edmund Burke

“A general rule is drawn which never or rarely fails: that he who is the cause of another becoming powerful is ruined; because that…

— W.K. Marriott

“From this one can derive a general rule which rarely, if ever, fails: that anyone who is the cause of another becoming powerful comes…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

... the unnatural ways we substitute for the natural prove not enough and soon there must be more and more unnaturalness, more and more violence.

— Lucy Freeman

“Rules, conventions, morals, reality itself: all exist so long as their existence is convenient to the preservation of power. Otherwise, they, like all else,…

— Omar El Akkad