Destructive Quotes - Page 33

• It's important for me to fight for principles. But I am not willing to cope with the nastiness of politics anymore and the endless destructive confrontations that it leads to.

  Ingrid Betancourt

  Fighting, Important, Principles

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• Light-skinned black people are seen to be closer to white people. The allegiance to lighter-skinned people has operated in a very destructive way that we have internalized ourselves inside black communities. You look at many of the prominent black people in this society who have been able to do well. Many have been lighter-skinned.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Light, White, People

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• Capitalism can be helpful, but it can also be destructive when it's used by huge enterprises worldwide for the sale of weapons.

  Judy Collins

  Weapons, Helpful, Used

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• I have to admit that many of the relationships I write about are destructive, but that's the yin to the yang of a good relationship. Maybe you have to experience the terrible ones to appreciate the good unions!

  Caroline Leavitt

  Writing, Appreciate, Good Relationship

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• How we sit within the body is an extremely important part of the spiritual journey. The body itself is used either by the spirit within us, or by the fear-based mind. When it is used by the spirit, then it is a thing of holiness. How we dwell within it, how we treat it, and how we use it in relationship to other aspects of the planet is extremely important. When we use the body without reverence, we are destructive elements on the planet. We become destructive to ourselves, to other life forms, and to the earth.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Journey, Mind

  "John Robbins Interviews Marianne Williamson". foodrevolution.org. January 01, 2013.

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• Everyone has a self-destructive nature in them. It's whether you feed it or not. You don't have to be a pop star to feel connected to destruction or self-destruction. But self-destruction is self-obsession, and self-obsession is not really possible if you're engaged in raising children. And if you have a spiritual life, you're constantly being asked to see yourself as one small fragment in the bigger picture.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Spiritual, Stars, Children

  Source: www.independent.ie

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• Indian nationalism is not exclusive, nor aggressive, nor destructive.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  India, Aggressive, Exclusive

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.116, A&C Black

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• Our peaceful non-co-operation must be constructive, non-destructive. Poison should not emerge from the throes of love.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Peaceful, Poison

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• God gives us what we want. For people who want nothing to do with peace, joy, reconciliation and peace... God will give you what you want. I see people make unbelievably destructive choices.

  Rob Bell

  Giving, People, Joy

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• One problem with politics is that it is a zero sum game, i.e. politicians argue how to cut the pie smaller and smaller, by reshuffling pieces of the pie. I think this is destructive. Instead, we should be creating a bigger pie, i.e. funding the science that is the source of all our prosperity. Science is not a zero sum game.

  Michio Kaku

  Zero, Cutting, Thinking

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 7, 2014.

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• I think people have always misinterpreted my self-destructive nature as nihilistic, because if you don't care about the world, you can't create art. I am misanthropic and self-loathing, but never nihilistic. And I think I act far worse off-stage than onstage.

  Marilyn Manson

  Art, Thinking, Self

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• I find most famous Christians to be full of themselves and of prejudice and self-loathing, masquerading as devout religious belief. I find all fundamentalism to be terrifying and very destructive.

  Anne Lamott

  Christian, Religious, Self

  "Interview with Anne Lamott, Author of Help, Thanks, Wow". Interview with Jana Llewellyn, www.friendsjournal.org. January 30, 2013.

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• Studies say great harm can be done to a person if the connection between mother and child isn´t there from the start. Love is a basic need/instinct, and people can get quite desperate and become destructive if they don´t have it.

  Anne Sewitsky

  Mother, Children, Love Is

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• If you want a commercial success - it's the confusion of commerce with art. A successful play is not considered to be the best written. It is the one that sells the most tickets. Those standards are destructive [to theatre].

  Edward Albee

  Art, Successful, Play

  The Believer Interview, www.believermag.com. September 2013.

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• I'm really showing the people what's happening. I'm showing them love. You're spending on guns and drugs and bombs and stuff like those and you're still not reaching out to the people who are suffering. You found money to make bombs and destructive weapons, but you ain't finding no money to help people suffering.

  Sizzla

  Love You, Gun, People

  Source: www.thepier.org

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• Yes, the kingdom of Christianity and the Church has been one of the most destructive forces in history, and there are levels of bastardization of religious beliefs. But the unique thing about Christianity is that it is so amorphous and not reductive to culture or place or anything. It's extremely malleable.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Religious, Unique, Church

  "True Myth: A Conversation With Sufjan Stevens". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. February 16, 2015.

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• Can't react every time you're insulted. Free people absorb destructive things and refuse to be destroyed

  Hillary Clinton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

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

  Dorothy Thompson

  Circles, Mind, Elements

  Dorothy Thompson (1957). “The courage to be happy”

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• Ideas have consequences, and totally erroneous ideas are likely to have destructive consequences.

  Steve Allen

  Ideas, Religion, Consequence

  Steve Allen (1993). “More Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion and Morality”

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• Someday, maybe, there will exist a well-informed, well considered and yet fervent public conviction that the most deadly of all possible sins is the mutilation of a child’s spirit; for such mutilation undercuts the life principle of trust, without which every human act, may it feel ever so good and seem ever so right is prone to perversion by destructive forms of conscientiousness.

  Erik Erikson

  Children, May, Principles

  Erik H. Erikson (1993). “Young Man Luther: A Study in Psychoanalysis and History”, p.70, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Racism built me into a person that was set up to be self-destructive.

  Jayson Blair

  Self, Racism, Persons

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• When we hold our thoughts up against God's standards of what is true and what is real, we can recognize and, with His help, learn to release many of our negative emotions, damaging thoughts, and destructive attitudes.

  Elizabeth George

  Attitude, Real, Negative

  Elizabeth George (1998). “Loving God with All Your Mind”, Harvest House Pub

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• A civilization built on dualism and war within and between persons, one that puts its most creative minds and its best engineers to sadistic work building more and more destructive weapons, is no civilization at all. It needs a radical transformation from the heart outwards. It needs to outgrow and outlaw war just as in the last century it outlawed slavery. The human race has outgrown war, but it hardly knows it yet.

  Matthew Fox

  War, Heart, Civilization

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• Learning to spot narcissists and deal with their destructive behavior can save you the world of hurt that awaits anyone who mistakes the near enemy for a friend.

  Martha Beck

  Hurt, Mistake, Enemy

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• Riches naturally beget pride, love of the world, and every temper that is destructive of Christianity.

  John Wesley

  Pride, World, Riches

  John Wesley, John Emory (1835). “The Works of the Late Reverend John Wesley, A.M.: From the Latest London Edition with the Last Corrections of the Author, Comprehending Also Numerous Translations, Notes, and an Original Preface, Etc”, p.441

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