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• People still do not understand that a live fish is more valuable than a dead one, and that destructive fishing techniques are taking a wrecking ball to biodiversity.

  Sylvia Earle

  Fishing, People, Technique

  "Can We Stop Killing Our Oceans Now, Please?" by Sylvia Earle, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 14, 2013.

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• I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.

  Dan Harmon

  Self, Want, Self Destructive

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• Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Freedom, Giving, Mastery

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• With the egoic consciousness having become so dysfunctional, and now having at our disposal all these enormous technologies and scientific advances, if nothing changes the ego will use those things - as it already has been doing - and will amplify the technology that we now have. The scientific advances, to a large extent, will be used in the service of the ego, and they will become more and more destructive.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Technology, Ego, Use

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there's no future in riots.

  Jesse Jackson

  Self, Want, Riot

  "Rev. Jesse Jackson appears at protest in Ferguson". "Hannity" with Andrea Tantaros, www.foxnews.com. August 15, 2014.

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• All of these riots around the globe are endangering the world. And mobs are always dangerous, destructive things that end society. Liberal policies promote mobs because liberals crawl on the mobs, the destruction wrought by the mobs to attain power. Tere's only one way to react to a mob to save civilized society, and that is to smash the mob. It is not to mollycoddle the mob.

  Ann Coulter

  World, Way, Destruction

  "Ann Coulter: Liberal Policies Led to U.K. Riots". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. August 11, 2011.

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• Think of our DNA. In the last million years, our DNA hasn't changed at all. It's really much the same as it was in the jungle, a million, two millions years ago. But in the last 200 years, our destructive capacities have increased many, many millions of times over. Why don't we see intelligent signals from outer space? Because in all likelihood, once the civilization reaches the point our civilization has reached, it destroys itself.

  Stephen Hawking

  Thinking, Intelligent, Two

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have always felt that perhaps women have sometimes almost embraced the same values as men, and the same character as men, because they are in the men's world, and they are trying to fit into a system that men have created. And maybe in truth when there is a critical mass of women who play that role in governments, then we will see whether women can really manage power in a way that is less destructive than the way that men have used power.

  Wangari Maathai

  Character, Men, Play

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The Revelations is an amazing, rich material that is full of stories about angels and angels being sent down to Earth to wipe out a third of the population. There are angels that come down and wipe out a third of the population and then another angel will come down and wipe out a third of all the animals living in the sea and another angel will come down and wipe out all the vegetation on the land. They are some vengeful individules, in Revelations, the angels. There is a lot of destructive capacity in an angel's being.

  Misha Collins

  Angel, Animal, Sea

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• . . . word-sniffing . . . is an addiction, like glue -- or snow -- sniffing in a somewhat less destructive way, physically if not economically. . . . As an addict, I am almost guiltily interested in converts to my own illness . . .

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Snow, Addiction, Glue

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• When men are engaged in war and conquest, the tools of science become as dangerous as a razor in the hands of a child of three. We must not condemn man because his inventiveness and patient conquest of the forces of nature are being exploited for false and destructive purposes. Rather, we should remember that the fate of mankind hinges entirely upon man’s moral development.

  Albert Einstein

  Patience, Children, War

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• The result of civilization, at the Sandwich Islands and elsewhere, is found productive to the civilizers, destructive to the civilizees. It is said to be compensation--a very philosophical word; but it appears to be very much on the principle of the old game, "You lose, I win": good philosophy for the winner.

  Herman Melville

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Winning

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• The all American work ethic, destructive enough by itself, also packs a gender double standard that strip-mines the natural resources of both parents. It has taught us that as their earnings and success increase, men become "more manly," while women become "less feminine." This perverse cultural dynamic gives fathers an incentive to stay away from their families and kill themselves at work, while coercing mothers to limit their career commitment, which in turn limits their wages and shortchanges their families.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Mother, Father, Women

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• Any child born into the hugely consumptionist way of life so common in the industrial world will have an impact that is, on average, many times more destructive than that of a child born in the developing world.

  Al Gore

  Children, Impact, Average

  Al Gore (2013). “Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose”, p.308, Routledge

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• In the west, Apollo and Dionysus strive for victory. Apollo makes the boundary lines that are civilization but that lead to convention, constraint, oppression. Dionysus is energy unbound, mad, callous, destructive, wasteful. Apollo is law, history, tradition, the dignity and safety of custom and form. Dionysus is the new, exhilarating but rude, sweeping all away to begin again. Apollo is a tyrant, Dionysus is a vandal.

  Camille Paglia

  Law, Civilization, Tyrants

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae”, p.128, Yale University Press

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• A Law of Nature, (Lex Naturalis) is a Precept, or general Rule, found out by Reason, by which a man is forbidden to do, that, which is destructive of his life, or taketh away the means of preserving the same; and to omit, that, by which he thinketh it may be best preserved.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Mean, Men, Law

  Thomas Hobbes (2005). “Leviathan, Parts I and II”, p.98, Broadview Press

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• Science for the Citizen is ... also written for the large and growing number of adolescents, who realize that they will be the first victims of the new destructive powers of science misapplied.

  Lancelot Hogben

  Numbers, Citizens, Growing

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• The movie industry has ignored the success of films that look favorably on faith with the same sort of self-destructive stubbornness that has led to its continued sponsorship of antireligious-message movies.

  Michael Medved

  Christian, Religious, Self

  Michael Medved (1992). “Hollywood vs. America: popular culture and the war on traditional values”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The artist who makes himself accessible is self-destructive.

  Howard Barker

  Artist, Self, Self Destructive

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• Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.

  Benjamin Cardozo

  Benjamin N. Cardozo (1924). “The Growth of the Law”, p.2, Yale University Press

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• Not rarely, and this is especially true of wives and mothers, the motive behind assuming a disproportionate share of work and responsibility is completely unselfish. We want to protect, to spare those of whom we are fond. We forget that, regardless of the motive, the results of such action are almost always destructive and unproductive.

  Hortense Odlum

  Mother, Responsibility, Wife

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• 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.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Mean, Finals, Analysis

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010). “The Trumpet of Conscience”, p.59, Beacon Press

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• Everyone has a need for significance; and if we can't make that possible, or even probable, in our society, then it will be obtained in destructive ways.

  Rollo May

  Way, Needs, Our Society

  Rollo May (1998). “Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence”, p.179, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Those whose purpose does not match yours are not wrong; they have their mission, and finding their own purposeful way may involve many detours and acts that seem destructive.

  Wayne Dyer

  Doe, Purpose, May

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• Excessive or irrational schedules are probably the single most destructive influence in all of software

  Capers Jones

  Schedules, Influence, Irrational

  Capers Jones (2008). “Applied Software Measurement: Global Analysis of Productivity and Quality”, p.403, McGraw Hill Professional

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