Destructive Quotes

The Spirit of God is as destructive of evil as it is creative of good.

The moral consequences of totalitarian propaganda...are destructive of all morals because they undermind one of the foundations of all morals: the sense of and respect for truth.

When you're at peace with yourself and love your self, it is virtually impossible to do things to yourself that are destructive.

Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!

I release all fears and doubts. I accept myself and create peace in my mind and heart. I now choose to free myself from all destructive fears and doubts. I am loved and I am safe.

Love: I recognize the emotion for what it is, an irrational self-destructive impulse, which is disguised as joy.

Sin doesn't always look sinful to us; sometimes it looks beautiful. That's why we need grace to see sin for what it really is - dark, dangerous, enslaving and destructive.

Fear is the most subtle and destructive of all human diseases.

Only the destructive forces know death as lord. Only spiritual forces know life as the Lord. Know ye the Lord!

Conventional economics is a form of brain damage. Economics is so fundamentally disconnected from the real world, it is destructive.

There should be no distasteful tasks in one's life. If you just hate to do a thing, that hatred for it develops body-destructive toxins, and you become fatigued very soon.

Nothing is more destructive of individual character than for a man to lose all faith in his own abilities for the prosecution of his work.

It is a destructive addition to add anything to Christ

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

Basically we should stop doing those things that are destructive to the environment, other creatures, and ourselves and figure out new ways of existing.

We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent - people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save.

We want our children to live in an America...that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet.

I only write about stuff that’s happened to me.. stuff I can’t get past personally. Luckily, I'm quite self-destructive.

The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders hostility; hostility engenders fear, a disastrous circle.

I still have highs and lows, just like any other person. What's missing is the lack of control over the super highs, which became destructive, and the super lows, which are immediately destructive.

Cleverness without wisdom: the most destructive force on Earth.

In the final analysis, means and ends must cohere because the end is preexistent in the means, and, ultimately, destructive means cannot bring about constructive ends.

There's also a part of me that's self-destructive, and another part that's a hero who's going to stand up for a principle.

Tell me what you are for, and I will show you what is going to expand in a positive way. Tell me what you are against, and I can show you what is going to expand in a destructive way.

We need to understand how destructive emotions affect us and constructive emotions can help us, so that we can maintain our peace of mind.

Every seemingly arbitrary destructive action is a reaction of the organism to the frustration of a gratification of a vital need, especially of a sexual need.

Ethnic stereotypes are boring and stressful and sometimes criminal. It's just not a good way to think. It's non-thinking. It's stupid and destructive.

Extreme independence is as destructive to a relationship as total dependence.

Making those we love happy sounds innocent as a dove, but it can be as destructive as a lion.

The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those of the body. [Lat., Morbi perniciores pluresque animi quam corporis.]

For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.

It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.

Destructive fear must be stopped in its tracks or it will undermine the life God invites us to live.

I definitely have a real self-destructive streak.

Nothing is more destructive of human dignity than a rule which imposes a mute and blind obedience.

The only thing more destructive than a tornado is a family.

I think Obama is possibly the most dangerous and destructive president we have ever had

I am not self-destructive. I am not a person who wants to die.

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 to overcome them.

I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.

The sin that is most destructive in your life right now is the one you are most defensive about.

The protection of evil must be the most self-destructive job.

Love is always creative, fear always destructive.

Belief is such a powerful thing - but because it is, it can also be very destructive and it's very easily manipulated.

Your criticism sounds to me as if you have read too many critical books and are too smart in an artificial, destructive, and very limited way.

Man is the most dangerous, destructive, selfish, and unethical animal on earth.

A life without a lonely place, that is, without a quiet center, becomes destructive.

To a winner, complacency and overconfidence can be destructive. To losers, desperation and despondency are just as harmful.

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 life. That’s when, ‘Why me?’ becomes a theme song.

The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.