Destructive Quotes - Page 13

• Let's face it, gossip is one of the world's most destructive habits, and we're exposed to it practically everywhere we go and in much that we see - work, recreation, sports, home, in magazines, on television.  There is absolutely nothing beneficial about gossip - it hurts everyone involved

  Lori Palatnik

  Sports, Hurt, Home

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• 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.

  Roger Dawson

  Song, Thinking, Self

  Roger Dawson (1994). “The 13 secrets of power performance”, Prentice Hall Direct

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• Christians were regarded as separated from society and therefore destructive of the Greco-Roman way of life.

  Kenneth Scott Latourette

  Christian, Way

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• I think a human animal is far more wild and unpredictable and dangerous and destructive than any other animal.

  Jeff Corwin

  Animal, Thinking, Dangerous

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• I think the hardest thing in life is to forgive. Hate is self destructive. If you hate somebody, you're not hurting the person you hate, you're hurting yourself. It's a healing, actually, it's a real healing...forgiveness.

  Louis Zamperini

  Hurt, Hate, Real

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• The key quality that anyone has to develop - a regular person as well as a warrior - is humility. If you don't try to develop humility, what you end up developing is pride, and that's destructive; it destroys yourself and it destroys the world around you.

  Vladimir Vasiliev

  Art, Humility, Warrior

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• In the search for reality, energy creates its own discipline. But mere discipline, without full comprehension of all this, has no meaning, it is a most destructive thing.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Reality, Discipline

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• Health care is a far more serious, immediate and destructive problem than social security. . . . The upfront investment needed to fund system wide [health care] reform . . . would be far offset by the savings.

  Henry Simmons

  Reform, Would Be, Saving

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• The function of high school, then, is not so much to communicate knowledge as to oblige children finally to accept the grading system as a measure of their inner excellence. And a function of the self-destructive process in American children is to make them willing to accept not their own, but a variety of other standards, like a grading system, for measuring themselves. It is thus apparent that the way American culture is now integrated it would fall apart if it did not engender feelings of inferiority and worthlessness.

  Jules Henry

  Education, Children, Fall

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• We will establish ourselves in Palestine whether you like it or not...You can hasten our arrival or you can equally retard it. It is however better for you to help us so as to avoid our constructive powers being turned into a destructive power which will overthrow the world.

  Chaim Weizmann

  World, Helping, You Like It

  Judische Rundschau, No. 4, 1920.

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• In Maybe I Will, Laurie Gray writes about important topics that teens need to talk about, including sexual assault, friendship, and alcoholism or self-destructive behaviors that result from trauma. Maybe I Will may help some teens know they're not alone.

  Cheryl Rainfield

  Writing, Self, Important

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• Changing the destructive things you say to yourself when you experience the setbacks that life deals all of us is the central skill of optimism.

  Martin Seligman

  Skills, Optimism, Deals

  Martin E.P. Seligman (2011). “Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life”, p.39, Vintage

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• The passive ironic attitude is not cool or romantic, but pathetic and destructive.

  Robert Greene

  Attitude, Ironic, Passive

  Twitter post from Apr 19, 2015

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• Radical feminism is the most destructive and fanatical movement to come down to us from the Sixties. This is a revolutionary, not a reformist, movement, and it is meeting with considerable success. Totalitarian in spirit, it is deeply antagonistic to traditional Western culture and proposes the complete restructuring of society, morality, and human nature.

  Robert Bork

  Radical Feminism, Feminist, Western Culture

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• I want a drink. I want fifty drinks. I want a bottle of the purest, strongest, most destructive, most poisonous alcohol on Earth. I want fifty bottles of it. I want crack, dirty and yellow and filled with formaldehyde. I want a pile of powder meth, five hundred hits of acid, a garbage bag full of mushrooms, a tube of glue bigger than a truck, a pool of gas large enough to drown in. I want something anything whatever however as much as I can.

  James Frey

  Dirty, Mushrooms, Want Something

  James Frey (2003). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.153, Rutgers University Press

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• I came away from the forums with a profound concern about the highly addictive and destructive nature of methamphetamine. Families are torn apart, lives are destroyed and treatment is difficult to get.

  Greg Walden

  Nature, Profound, Torn Apart

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• Democracy is a kingless regime infested by many kings who are sometimes more exclusive, tyrannical and destructive than one, even if he be a tyrant.

  Benito Mussolini

  Kings, Tyrants, Democracy

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• And violence is impractical, because the old eye for an eye philosophy ends up leaving everybody blind .. It is immoral because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for everybody. Means and ends are inseparable. The means represent the ideal in the making; in the long run of history destructive means cannot bring about constructive ends.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Running, Philosophy, War

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• Fear is bound to disappear when you realize that failure is not something shameful, damaging, destructive, or painful, but something natural.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Realizing, Painful, Natural

  Sri Chinmoy (1997). “The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• Remember that this is not something we do just once or twice. Interrupting our destructive habits and awakening our heart is the work of a lifetime.

  Pema Chodron

  Heart, Awakening, Remember

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.46, Shambhala Publications

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• There are three ways of securing a society that shall be stable as regards population. The first is that of birth control, the second that of infanticide or really destructive wars, and the third that of general misery except for a powerful minority.

  Bertrand Russell

  Powerful, War, Eugenics

  Bertrand Russell (2012). “The Impact of Science on Society”, p.117, Routledge

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• A human being in a neurotic state might very well be compared to a bewitched person, for people caught in a neurosis are apt to behave in a manner uncongenial and destructive towards themselves as well as others.

  Marie-Louise von Franz

  People, Neurosis, Might

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• Spend the most time with your best people. ... Talent is the multiplier. THe more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield. The time you spend with your best is, quite simply, your most productive time. ... Persistence directed primarily toward your non-talents is self-destructive. ... You will reprimand yourself, berate yourself, and put yourself through all manner of contortions in an attempt to achieve the impossible.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Persistence, Yield, Self

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• Evil's just destructive? Then storms are evil, if it's that simple. And we have fire, and there there's hail. Underwriters lump it all under 'Acts of God.

  Thomas Harris

  Simple, Fire, Evil

  Thomas Harris (2009). “The Silence of the Lambs”, p.22, Macmillan

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• These often unsung heroes understand...that poverty, disease and famine are just as deadly and destructive as earthquakes, hurricanes and tsunamis. Individuals ...are taking on these challenges in their communities, volunteering to make a difference. They remain the true champions of our work towards the Millennium Development Goals.

  Kofi Annan

  Hero, Earthquakes, Differences

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