Destructive Quotes - page 4

The Internet has become a hate-filled town square with no limits put on destructive verbal behavior. (Bill O'Reilly)
The autocracies of the Arab world have been as economically destructive as they've been politically repressive. View quote
James Surowiecki
The Destructive Arts are exactly like Martial Arts, except they don't have uniforms or usefulness and the end result doesn't resemble art in any way. View quote
Jim Benton
I have to be careful because there is something destructive within me, I think, and I can have a tendency to just search for the kicks. I can't really get too close to someone who's too destructive, or too dark, because then I might go down the rabbit hole myself. View quote
Alexander Skarsgard
When we hold our thoughts up against God's standards of what is true and what is real, we can recognize and, with His help, learn to release many of our negative emotions, damaging thoughts, and destructive attitudes. View quote
Elizabeth George
There is no glory in honesty if it is destructive. And no shame in dishonesty if its goal is to offer grace. View quote
M. J. Rose
I allowed myself to suffer how jarringly destructive the present feels and how fragile the past. View quote
Ann Brashares
We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species. View quote
Wendell Berry
We are seeking another basic outlook: the world as an organization. This would profoundly change categories of our thinking and influence our practical attitudes. We must envision the biosphere as a whole with mutually reinforcing or mutually destructive inter-dependencies. View quote
Ludwig von Bertalanffy
I think the hardest thing in life is to forgive. Hate is self destructive. If you hate somebody, you're not hurting the person you hate, you're hurting yourself. It's a healing, actually, it's a real healing... forgiveness. View quote
Louis Zamperini
Your criticism sounds to me as if you have read too many critical books and are too smart in an artificial, destructive, and very limited way. (Flannery O’Connor)
I've always known a lot of very bad people, destructive, brutes of a certain kind. Then I've seen these lovely impulses and what not, and they've stayed with me and comforted me. View quote
Paula Fox
Want to know what's more destructive than a nuclear bomb? Words. View quote
Kim Jong-un
Agriculture is the most destructive industry that we have. More than coal mining and other extractive industries. View quote
Allan Savory
Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another. View quote
Anne Sullivan Macy
I am convinced now that virtually every destructive behavior and addiction I battled off and on for years was rooted in my (well-earned) insecurity. View quote
Beth Moore
I don't see 'lines of force' as being destructive, except to the extent that they are exclusively traceable through observance of the path of distorted material left in their wake. View quote
Brian Ferneyhough
I don't want my kids growing up believing that there is nothing destructive in the world. View quote
Chuck Connors
There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process. View quote
Joy Williams
Christians were regarded as separated from society and therefore destructive of the Greco-Roman way of life. View quote
Kenneth Scott Latourette
The coal mining industry is very destructive and it doesn't have to be. (Kevin Richardson)
Marriage is a custom brought about by women who then proceed to live off men and destroy them, completely enveloping the man in a destructive cocoon or eating him away like a poisonous fungus on a tree. View quote
Richard Harris
Not only did God deliver me from the bondage of alcoholism, he also blessed my family financially because of my commitment to honor what he had done for me and for not doing what I believed could possibly be destructive to others. View quote
Richard Kiel
I'm always studying something or trying to learn something, keep myself creatively occupied, because I think that energy can get kind of destructive if it doesn't have somewhere to go. View quote
Rosemarie DeWitt
Cheating is not the American way. It is small, while we are large. It is cheap, while we are richly endowed. It is destructive, while we are creative. It is doomed to fail, while our gifts and responsibilities call us to achieve. It sabotages trust and weakens the bonds of spirit and humanity, without which we perish. View quote
Terrence McNally