"Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.…" — Mary Douglas

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• Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive… — Alain Badiou
• I definitely see the good in people. Certainly in my own life I strive to be somebody who is functional… — Alan Ball
• Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the… — Albert Bandura
• I've always had this impulse to be destructive. — Russell Brand
• Oh yes, there's lots of great food in America. But the fast food is about as destructive and evil as… — Anthony Bourdain
• I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are… — A. S. Byatt
• For me, acting was a way of taking destructive energy and doing something productive with it, and in that way… — Nicolas Cage
• Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive. — Alexis Carrel
• The more settled I've become, the more problematic my characters have become. There was a period when I wrote sensitive… — Nick Cave
• Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought… — William Cobbett
• Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they… — Carl Jung
• Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of… — Millicent Fenwick

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