Destructive Quotes - Page 23

• There is a time you can't turn it back. When a person is very destructive, when they hate you tremendously, you have to disassociate with them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hate, Buddhism, Rama

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• For all her active goodness, Florence Nightingale herself was far from being the angelic figure of popular adulation: according to Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians she was a self-righteous, domineering amazon, who was ruthless in her compassion, merciless in her philantropy, destructive in friendships, obsessional in her list for power, and demonic in her saintliness.

  David Cannadine

  Compassion, Self, Florence Nightingale

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• In football, hate can be a beautiful thing; sustaining and nourishing, quite unlike other manifestations of an otherwise destructive emotion.

  Nicky Campbell

  Beautiful, Soccer, Football

  "Mugging up on a long lost devotion to the United of old" by Nicky Campbell, www.theguardian.com. December 20, 2006.

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• I very much believe in things unseen, both of positive and destructive energy, and I have never seen The Exorcist through from start to finish. I find it too realistic, frankly, and too disturbing for me. I absolutely believe in spiritual warfare and have experienced it in my life. So I respect Mr. Friedkin's extraordinary success with that, but it's not a picture I'll ever see.

  Ashley Judd

  Spiritual, Believe, Unseen

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• We must control the tendencies within our being that are destructive, when we want to slam somebody else, hurt them, injure them, or push them out of the way. A reverence for life needs to be developed, in which all things are sacred.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Hurt, Buddhism

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• Without balance and wisdom, power becomes very destructive. It creates unhappiness and not happiness. To simply see a teacher to gain power is a mistake.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Mistake

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• The United Nations has become a largely irrelevant, if not positively destructive institution, and the just-released U.N. report on the atrocities in Darfur, Sudan, proves the point.

  Linda Chavez

  Literature, Atrocities, Institutions

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• When willpower is not guided, it's terrible. Hitler had a lot of will. But he used it for destructive purposes because he lacked wisdom.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Purpose, Willpower

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• To abdicate from the rule of reason and substitute for it an authentication of belief by the intentness and degree of conviction with which we hold it can be perilous and destructive. Religious beliefs give a spurious spiritual dimension to tribal enmities.

  Peter Medawar

  Spiritual, Religious, Giving

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• The bulk of the totalitarian-minded in the democratic societies are men and women who are attracted to this destructive way of life for inner emotional reasons unknown to themselves.

  Joost Meerloo

  Men, Emotional, Atheism

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• "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

  Source: www.npr.org

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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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