Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn't know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn't even smell like smoke.
We produce destructive people by the way we are treating them in childhood.
I am convinced now that virtually every destructive behavior and addiction I battled off and on for years was rooted in my (well-earned) insecurity.
If you don't find some way to discuss what's going on inside you, it can come out in other ways that are self-destructive.
The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life.
A life without a lonely place, that is, without a quiet center, becomes destructive.
The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy. The problem comes when healthy criticism is replaced with more destructive intimidation and sanctions.
A guy who's actually self destructive is quite fun to play.
The Internet has become a hate-filled town square with no limits put on destructive verbal behavior.
Being self-critical is good; being self-hating is destructive. There's a very fine line there somewhere, and I walk it carefully.
What you don't do can be a destructive force.
Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
The best method for preventing destructive cult involvement is preventative education. If students and the public at large are more aware of destructive groups beforehand they may better understand and resist their recruitment efforts.
I am a Maoist sympathiser. I'm not a Maoist ideologue, because the communist movements in history have been just as destructive as capitalism.
Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.
Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.
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.
I have to be careful because there is something destructive within me, I think, and I can have a tendency to just search for the kicks. I can't really get too close to someone who's too destructive, or too dark, because then I might go down the rabbit hole myself.
Downsizing itself is an inevitable part of any creatively destructive economy.
The autocracies of the Arab world have been as economically destructive as they've been politically repressive.
The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.
The sad part about our past is that religions, ironically enough, are responsible for creating the most destructive idea that has ever been visited upon the human race: the idea that there is such a thing as 'better.'
Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.
Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
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