Destructive Quotes

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  One of the most destructive forces in the world is love. For the following reason: The world is a conglomeration of objects, no, of events and the approachings of events towards objects, therefore of becoming stases static stagnant, of all that is unreal. You get in the world, you get your daily life your routine doesn’t matter if you’re rich poor legal illegal, you begin to believe what doesn’t change is real, and love comes along and shows all these unchangeable for ever fixtures to be flimsy paper bits. Love can tear anything to shreds.

  Kathy Acker

  Real, Believe, Tears

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• The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Hands, Suffering, Atmosphere

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• The truth of God may well be likened to a narrow path skirted on either side by a dangerous and destructive precipice: in other words, it lies between two gulfs of error.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Lying, Errors, Two

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• Everything you stand for, believe in, experience and aspire to is the result of thought. And thought is destructive because it is nothing more than a protective mechanism, programmed to protect its own interests at all costs.

  U.G. Krishnamurti

  Believe, Cost, Results

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• Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Stupid, Eye, Agitation

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• Conscious choice is creative. Unconscious choice is destructive. That is how we end up living other people's lives.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Women, People, Choices

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• You know what the most destructive force in the universe is?  Regret.

  Tommy Lee

  Regret, Force, Knows

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• Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

  Salvador Dali

  Photography, Vision, Shackles

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• I know one gay ex-Mormon who is a talented, self-destructive alcoholic. Whenever he is drunk and going on a tear, we are back to the Mormon Church and his being thrown out of the Mormon Church and growing up with this sense of being evil.

  Andrew Solomon

  Growing Up, Gay, Self

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• The problem with life is, we often do things that will ultimately be self-destructive and make us unhappy, yet in that moment it seems like the best idea in the world. You have to be careful of moments - they're tricksy things.

  Sophie Dahl

  Self, Ideas, Unhappy

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• Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears.

  Albert Bandura

  Powerful, Fall, Mean

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• Oh yes, there's lots of great food in America. But the fast food is about as destructive and evil as it gets. It celebrates a mentality of sloth, convenience, and a cheerful embrace of food we know is hurting us.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Hurt, America, Evil

  "Anthony Bourdain’s Off-the-Menu Travel Tips". Interview with Mary Anne Potts, adventureblog.nationalgeographic.com. August 3, 2011.

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• I've always had this impulse to be destructive.

  Russell Brand

  Impulse

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.

  A. S. Byatt

  Book, Writing, People

  "Writing in terms of pleasure". Interview with Sam Leith, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2009.

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• For me, acting was a way of taking destructive energy and doing something productive with it, and in that way it was quite a life saver.

  Nicolas Cage

  Acting, Energy, Way

  "'You've got to be able to break the wall'". Interview with Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2007.

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• Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.

  Alexis Carrel

  Jealousy, Law, Hatred

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• The more settled I've become, the more problematic my characters have become. There was a period when I wrote sensitive and gentle songs and these came at a time when life was at its most destructive. I think you write about what you need, on some level.

  Nick Cave

  Song, Writing, Character

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• Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of "speculation"; but which ought to be called Gambling.

  William Cobbett

  Gambling, Names, Evil

  "Advice to Young Men, and (Incidentally) to Young Women, in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life (Letter 2)". Book by William Cobbett, 1829.

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• Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

  Norman Cousins

  Peace, War, World

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• The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

  Ernest Dimnet

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  "What We Live by". Book by Ernest Dimnet, p. 238, 1932.

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• Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.

  Mary Douglas

  Moral, Pretension, Superiority

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• I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Science, Literature, Logic

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “The Sign of the Four”, p.21, Arthur Conan Doyle

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• I still have highs and lows, just like any other person. What's missing is the lack of control over the super highs, which became destructive, and the super lows, which are immediately destructive.

  Patty Duke

  Missing, Lows, Stills

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• I'm not against extracting a modest amount of wildlife out of the ocean for human consumption, but I am really concerned about the large-scale industrial fishing that engages in destructive practices like trawling and longlining.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Fishing, Practice

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