Destructive Quotations

I'm not a 21-year-old angsty self-destructive rapscallion anymore.

Agriculture is the most destructive industry that we have. More than coal mining and other extractive industries.

The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life.

I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.

Christians were regarded as separated from society and therefore destructive of the Greco-Roman way of life.

I was really, really wild in my early twenties and a bit self-destructive.

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

I've always had this impulse to be destructive.

I don't find any kind of tension very productive, I find it destructive, actually.

Office romances are few, short, and not usually destructive.

Destructive fear must be stopped in its tracks or it will undermine the life God invites us to live.

Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.

Familiarity is the most destructive of all iconoclasts.

Scientology is destructive and a rip-off,

All pain is per se and especially in excess, destructive and ultimately fatal in its nature and effects.

There emanates from superlatives a destructive force.

Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.

Belief is such a powerful thing - but because it is, it can also be very destructive and it's very easily manipulated.

The artist who makes himself accessible is self-destructive.

When you learn how much bycatch comes from shrimp [and how destructive it is] - I'm not going to eat shrimp anymore.

ACLU has become eccentric and destructive.

There's nothing cool about being self-destructive.

You don't have freedom unless you have the freedom to do stupid self-destructive things.

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

A hug's a happy thing while a shrug's so often destructive.

But we moderns are impatient and destructive.

The autocracies of the Arab world have been as economically destructive as they've been politically repressive.

Reviews are destructive by their very nature.

Vulgarity is not as destructive to an artist as snobbery.

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

Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.

You cannot stop destructive actions by others, but you can stop your own destructive reactions to them

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

My worst habit is my fear & my destructive rationalizing.

Ideas have consequences, and totally erroneous ideas are likely to have destructive consequences.

The only thing more destructive than a tornado is a family.

But what is criticism? Criticism is purely destructive; anyone can destroy, but not everyone can build up.

There is no disease so destructive as lust.

Indian nationalism is not exclusive, nor aggressive, nor destructive.

Having books published is very destructive to writing.

Words are so awesome. Words are containers for power. They carry either creative power or destructive power.