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• I believe that the fundamental alternative for man is the choice between "life" and "death"; between creativity and destructive violence; between reality and illusions; between objectivity
  and intolerance; between brotherhood-independence and dominance-submission.

  Erich Fromm

  Believe, Creativity, Reality

  Erich Fromm (1994). “On Being Human”, Continuum

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• The unconscious can become destructive if it is disregarded and thwarted.

  Anais Nin

  Unconscious, Ifs, Disregarded

  "The Novel of the Future". Book by Anais Nin, 1969.

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• Children of the middle years do not do their learning unaffected by attendant feelings of interest, boredom, success, failure, chagrin, joy, humiliation, pleasure, distress and delight. They are whole children responding in a total way, and what they feel is a constant factor that can be constructive or destructive in any learning situation.

  Dorothy H Cohen

  Children, Learning, Years

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• There's nothing cool about being self-destructive.

  Patti Smith

  Self, Self Destructive, Self Destructive Behavior

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• The French, unfortunately, actually believe what they say, and that has been very destructive.

  Paul Krugman

  Believe, Has Beens

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• Regardless, heterosexual marriage is largely in trouble today because people see it as a selfish means of pleasing self, rather than a committed relationship in which the focus is on meeting the needs of the partner, that sense of selfishness and the redefinition of love as to something that is purely sentimental and emotional, has been destructive.

  Mike Huckabee

  Love, Selfish, Mean

  "Clinton puts squeeze on Dems campaign cash", www.foxnews.com. July 6, 2015.

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• Inanimate objects are sometimes parties to litigation. A ship has a legal personality, a fiction found useful for maritime purposes. The corporation sole - a creature of ecclesiastical law - is an acceptable adversary, and large fortunes ride on its cases... So it should be as respects valleys, alpine meadows, rivers, lakes, estuaries, beaches, ridges, groves of trees, swampland, or even air that feels the destructive pressures of modern technology and modern life.

  William O. Douglas

  Party, Technology, Air

  "Sierra Club v. Morton, 405 U.S. 727". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. April 19, 1972.

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• Man is suddenly becoming aware that by an ill-considered exploitation of nature he risks destroying it and becoming in his turn the victim of this degradation. Not only is the material environment becoming a permanent menace - pollution and refuse, new illness and absolute destructive capacity - but the human framework is no longer under man's control, thus creating an environment for tomorrow which may well be intolerable. This is a wide-ranging social problem which concerns the entire human family.

  Pope Paul VI

  Men, Creating, Risk

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• Criticism of growth arose with the discovery that growth beyond a certain point is destructive of the earth. We are already using resources much faster than they can be replenished. We are producing wastes much faster than nature's sinks can process them. The growth economy will end. The only questions are when its end will come, and whether humanity will be able to survive its demise.

  John B. Cobb

  Using Resources, Discovery, Humanity

  John B. Cobb (1994). “Sustaining the Common Good: A Christian Perspective on the Global Economy”

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• A lot of the Republican rhetoric better than the Democrats'. But when they're in office, it's pretty much the same thing. It's serving their supporters, it's corporate welfare, it's cronyism which is so destructive, particularly to the disadvantaged.

  Charles Koch

  Office, Republican, Welfare

  "Charles Koch on the 2016 race, climate change and whether he has too much power". Interview with Matea Gold, www.washingtonpost.com. August 4, 2015.

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• 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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