Destructive Quotes - Page 28

• "X-Men" is not really about mutants; it's about humanity. I think it's about the human race. We're an absolutely destructive race. It seems that we can't seem to get beyond this level of tribalism that has been around for thousands of years. Anything we fear we tend to destroy.

  Michael Fassbender

  Men, Thinking, Race

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• With proper tactics, nuclear war need not be as destructive as it appears.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  War, Needs, Nuclear

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• Anytime you have anyone who thinks he or she has God in their pocket, you have the potential for disaster, ... Throughout history, the claim that God is on your side has been used to justify any action, no matter how violent or destructive.

  Charles Kimball

  Thinking, Your Side, Matter

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• The ancestor of every destructive action, every destructive decision, is a negative thought.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Decision, Negative, Action

  Eknath Easwaran (2010). “Words to Live By: Short Readings of Daily Wisdom”, p.18, Nilgiri Press

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• Self-destructive patterns cause as much suffering as outer catastrophes.

  Anais Nin

  Self, Suffering, Patterns

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Mind, Body, Disease

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• To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful, and so destructive to life that human beings should shun it ... as they once shunned bubonic plague.

  Alice Walker

  War, Immature, Should

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way”, p.36, New Press, The

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• I no longer believe the conservative message that children are naturally selfish and destructive creatures who need civilizing by hierarchies or painful controls. On the contrary, I believe that hierarchy and painful controls create destructive people. And I no longer believe the liberal message that children are blank slates on which society can write anything. On the contrary, I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.

  Gloria Steinem

  Family, Children, Selfish

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• What mighty ills have not been done by woman!
  Who was't betray'd the Capitol? A woman;
  Who lost Mark Antony the world? A woman;
  Who was the cause of a long ten years' war,
  And laid at last old Troy is ashes? Woman;
  Destructive, damnable, deceitful woman!

  Thomas Otway

  War, Women, Years

  Thomas Otway, Thomas Thornton (1813). “The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway: In Three Volumes”, p.254

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• I have sometimes wondered also whether in people like me who come to the boil fast (soupe au lait, the French call this trait, like a milk soup that boils over) the tantrum is not a built-in safety valve against madness or illness. ... The fierce tension in me, when it is properly channeled, creates the good tension for work. But when it becomes unbalanced I am destructive. How to isolate that good tension is my problem these days. Or, put in another way, how to turn the heat down fast enough so the soup won't boil over!

  May Sarton

  Anger, People, Safety

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• I think that passion if really intense is always destructive if not to the two involved, always to other people.

  May Sarton

  Passion, Thinking, Two

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• People don't want to be understood - I mean not completely. It's too destructive. Then they haven't anything left. They don't want complete sympathy or complete understanding. They want to be treated carelessly and taken for granted lots of times.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Taken, Mean, People

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1973). “BRING ME A UNICORN”

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• The love of popularity seems little else than the love of being beloved; and is only blamable when a person aims at the affections of a people by means in appearance honest, but in their end pernicious and destructive.

  William Shenstone

  Mean, People, Littles

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• Even if every program were educational and every advertisement bore the seal of approval of the American Dental Association, we would still have a critical problem. It's not just the programs but the act of watching television hour after hour after hour that's destructive.

  Ellen Goodman

  Educational, After Hours, Television

  Ellen Goodman (1981). “Close to home”, Fawcett

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• There is no monster more destructive than the inventive mind that has outstripped philosophy.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Philosophy, Mind, Monsters

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• A system must be managed. It will not manage itself. Left to themselves in the Western world, components become selfish, competitive. We cannot afford the destructive effect of competition.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Selfish, Competition, World

  "The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education". Book by W. Edwards Deming, 1993.

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• One of the most destructive anti-concepts in the history of moral philosophy is the term 'duty.

  Ayn Rand

  Philosophy, Moral, Duty

  Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.94, Penguin

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• Stardom can be very destructive - particularly if you believe in it.

  Shelley Winters

  Believe, Fame, Stardom

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• The creative instincts, the love force must be nourished with every beat of our hearts until they overbalance the destructive instincts.

  Gladys Taber

  Heart, Creativity, Creative

  Gladys Bagg Taber (1948). “The book of Stillmeadow”

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• Drunkenness is deplorably destructive, but her demurer sister Gluttony destroys a hundred to her one.

  William Kitchiner

  Food, Cooking, Culinary

  William Kitchiner, Luigi Cornaro (1847). “Directions for Invigorating and Prolonging Life; Or, The Invalid's Oracle ...”, p.173

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• Shameless actually good since it gives a kind of freedom. We consider the old, functionless shame destructive. Today, if you have a strong sense of shame you also have a strong desire to overcome it. And that's when you can write.

  Karl Ove Knausgard

  Strong, Writing, Giving

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• Nothing can be more unphilosophical than to be positive or dogmatical on any subject; and even if excessive scepticism could be maintained it would not be more destructive to all just reasoning and inquiry. When men are the most sure and arrogant, they are commonly the most mistaken, and have there given reins to passion, without that proper deliberation and suspense which can alone secure them from the grossest absurdities.

  David Hume

  Passion, Men, Being Positive

  David Hume (2016). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: Revision of Great Book”, p.213, VM eBooks

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• The appetite for power is old and irrepressible in humankind, and in its action almost always destructive.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Power, Action, Appetite

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “The First Salute: A View of the American Revolution”, p.65, Random House

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

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Sound, Lions, Innocent

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• He that has no present Christ has a future, dark, chaotic, heaving with its destructive ocean; and over it there goes forever--black-pinioned winging its solitary and hopeless flight, the raven of his anxious thoughts, and finds no place to rest, and comes back again to the desolate ark with its foreboding croak of evil in the present and evil in the future.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Ocean, Dark, Anxious Thoughts

  Alexander Maclaren (1859). “Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester”, p.289

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