Self Destructive Quotes - Page 3

• Every rebellion which is not in its own nature self-destructive, is an expression of the divine spirit.

  Paul Carus

  Self, Expression, Spirit

  Paul Carus (2013). “History of the Devil”, p.449, Lulu Press, Inc

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• When I first went into freelancing, I think there was a period of about eight months when nothing happened. Everything that I wrote crumbled up, and then it became a self-destructive thing - when you begin to doubt yourself, when doubt turns into - it's sort of like impotence. Once impotent, you're forever impotent. Because you're always worried about being impotent.

  Rod Serling

  Thinking, Eight, Self

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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• There's also a part of me that's self-destructive, and another part that's a hero who's going to stand up for a principle.

  Terrence Howard

  Hero, Self, Principles

  Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• I was a violent, self-destructive teenager, who was adopted right at the end of World War II. I was lied to and abused by my parents. I hated life in Utah. I resented the Mormon Church, its sense of superiority and its certitude. I escaped through the Beat writers and discovered poetry and have devoted my entire life to the practice of poetry in varying ways. Poetry gave me a reason for being. And I'm not exaggerating when I say that.

  Sam Hamill

  War, Teenager, Self

  Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.

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• I truly believe that forgiveness is the fast track to greater love and it's the path that can really heal all. We all have areas of our own lives where we have a hard time forgiving, whether it's with ourselves, or others, but when we can practice forgiveness, many of our self-destructive habits will begin to fade away.

  Marci Shimoff

  Believe, Hard Times, Practice

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• My view of addiction, whether it's drugs, food, alcohol or any list of other things, is the same reason I asked my mother why I wasn't a drug addict or alcoholic, which is because when you're not loved, often people become an addict and self destructive. Now the opposite of love is indifference and even worse is rejection and abuse, and I meet those people.

  Bernie Siegel

  Mother, Love Is, Opposites

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I was not self-destructive, though I almost destroyed myself. In the end, I turned away from stand-up with a tired swivel of my head...

  Steve Martin

  Tired, Self, Ends

  "Born Standing Up". Book by Steve Martin, www.npr.org. November 20, 2007.

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• I think Alice [Cooper] probably, on some level, recognized that good old self-destructive streak that does happen in some people's lives. So, though I wasn't there with Alice and the Vampires, but I'd give anything in the world to have been, I had my own version, I suppose, a little later.

  Johnny Depp

  Thinking, Self, People

  "Alice Cooper, Johnny Depp And Friends Write A Musical Toast To Decadence". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. September 12, 2015.

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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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• I hope the Church will examine what is good and what is ill, and what good could be achieved by getting the suicidal, self-destructive, possibly carnal, or celibate to move toward this experience of love.

  Andrew Solomon

  Moving, Suicidal, Self

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• It's so important to embrace what you have because if you don't, that can be the root of very self-destructive habits, which I think people waste a lot of energy on.

  Jillian Hervey

  Thinking, Roots, Self

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• People continually ask me, "Why does the media do what it does? Why are they so obviously self-destructive? Why are they so obviously predictable? Why is the media so obviously biased? Do they not see how other people see?" No, they don't. But then again, they don't care, folks.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Self, Media, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I do think what the Tea Party also had was Obamacare and the unpopularity of that, at least at the time. And so whether there is something that is equally unpopular and equally galvanizing that is almost self-destructive from the administration, that's another factor that we will wait and see.

  Mark Shields

  Party, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We're all self-destructive when we're young. We all rebel. If we don't, there's something wrong. But when a Chicano kid's in a rebellious state, he has nowhere to go but to put himself in jeopardy with the police. When a kid who has some class privilege rebels, he's in a beautiful room and he can buy these horrible CDs and drugs. He's buffered from being a criminal.

  Jimmy Santiago Baca

  Beautiful, Kids, Self

  Interview with Barbara Stahura, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2003.

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• You try to steer a course in American society that's not self-destructive. But America is a country that inflicts injury. It does not like to see anything that comes in response, and accuses one of anger as if it were an unnatural response.

  Randall Robinson

  Country, America, Self

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

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• Europe is acting in a very self-destructive manner, but is doing so because it's trying to be loyal to the United States.

  Michael Hudson

  Self, Europe, Trying

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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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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• The sad thing is that, even though we know our lives aren't working in certain areas, we are still afraid to change. We are locked into our comfort zone, no matter how self-destructive it may be. Yet, the only way to get out of our comfort zone and to be free of our problems and limitations is to get uncomfortable.

  Robert Anthony

  Change, Self, May

  Robert Anthony (2004). “Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want”, p.4, Morgan James Publishing

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• Love of learning will never let you down. You can have a quest for money, you can have a quest for power, you can have a quest for fame and they are sometimes gratifying and sometimes self-destructive. The love of learning is always gratifying and never self-destructive. The more educated, the more cultivated a society becomes, better off is everybody.

  David McCullough

  Self, Quests, Sometimes

  Source: belmontvision.com

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• Making our goal anything other than peace is emotionally self-destructive.

  Marianne Williamson

  Self, Goal, Destructive

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• From the writing stage, I had envisioned a film that would be bright and light, even if the movie addresses adolescent unrest and self-destructive behavior. Talking about adolescence, I wanted to make a very musical film that was also a love story with a sensorial, sensual dimension and which had a strong emotional impact.

  Alante Kavaite

  Strong, Writing, Emotional

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I kind of came from the Townes Van Zandt school of throwing yourself off a cliff and then that's what you write about, and that rule number one of creative writing is you have to have conflict. But if you write about yourself mostly, then if you don't have conflict, then you create it. And the older I get, the more I realize that that's not a very smart way to do this. Not to say I'm the most self destructive person on earth, but it's easy to do.

  John Fullbright

  Smart, Writing, School

  Source: www.npr.org

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• All the forms of double taxation in the current system are punitive and self-destructive because they are literally destroying people's incentive to provide that seed corn for future economic growth.

  Daniel J. Mitchell

  Self, People, Growth

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• Kindness that allows barriers to one's relationship with God to spring up is self-destructive.

  Max Anders

  Kindness, Spring, Self

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• It's very hard to be good. It is self-destructive thinking to think that there is too much good.

  Henry Blodget

  Thinking, Self, Too Much

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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