Destructive Quotes

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Light, Creative, Darkness

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
Albert Einstein

Government, Respect, Nothing

What you don't do can be a destructive force.
Eleanor Roosevelt

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
Stephen Hawking

Life, Nature, Human

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
Theodore Roosevelt

Liberty, Order, Equally

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

Vision, Surrealism, Destroys

Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Important, Self, Done

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue.
Erich Fromm

Envy, Feeling, Moral

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
Margaret Mead

Nature, Human, Aggressive

Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.
Bertrand Russell

Great, Thought, Free

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

Life, Jealousy, Hatred

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
Alan Watts

Technology, Same, Universe

Aggression is inherently destructive of relationships. People and ideologies are pitted against each other, believing that in order to survive, they must destroy the opposition.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Against, Believing, Order

Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.
Alan Watts

After, Far, Destroy

Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
Gary Ryan Blair

Success, Failure, Goal

Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.
Mary Douglas

I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Logical, Guess, Habit

It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.
Christopher Lasch

Life, Family, Loyalty

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

Happiness, Great, Ruined

Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.
Eartha Kitt

Greed, Destroys

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
Oliver Goldsmith

Beauty, Happiness, Nature

Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism.
Audre Lorde

Black, Racism, Whatever

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.
David Hume

Society, Alone, Friends

I get anxious about a lot of things, that's the trouble. I get anxious about everything. I just can't stop thinking about things all the time. And here's the really destructive part - it's always retrospective. I waste time thinking of what I should have said or done.
Hugh Laurie

Time, Thinking, Done

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.
William Henry Harrison

Nature, Power, Nothing

I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office.
Newt Gingrich

Nature, Country, Negative

I'm trying to find a way to eat up time without being destructive, 'cause that's my go-to, it seems.
Shia LaBeouf

Time, Trying, Find

For eons, humans have struggled to find less destructive ways of living together.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Together, Find, Living

For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.
Erwin Schrodinger

Community, Virtue, Animal

The most destructive criticism is indifference.
E. W. Howe

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