Constructive Quotes

• The idea is to make sure that these sex offenders are occupied with constructive matters and not focused on the children who may be knocking at their doors this Halloween

  

  Andrew Spano
  • Children
  • Ideas
  • Doors

• Anyway, one of the first things you learn in space is not to thrash. If you have nothing constructive to do, the most constructive thing you can do is often nothing at all. In a mindful sense, I mean. Thrashing is the thing that gets people killed. Not sitting still.

  

  Elizabeth Bear
  • Learn
  • Killed
  • Thrashing

• Alteration is a constructive act, not a destructive one, and it's the opposite of most of our impulses.

  

  Dario Robleto
  • Opposites
  • Destructive
  • Constructive

• We shall use the terms morality, behavior, conduct, or constructive action in the same broad way. It may sound strange to speak of the morals of an atom, or of the way in which a molecule conducts itself. But in the last analysis, science can draw no fundamental distinction between the conduct of an animal, a bullet, or a freshman, although there may be more unknown factors involved in one case than in the other.

  

  William Patten
  • Action
  • Morality
  • Fundamentals

• All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move is instantly deconstructive. For if the complex can be put into the simple, then it cannot be as complex as it seemed in the first place; and if the simple can be an adequate medium of such complexity, then it cannot after all be as simple as all that.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Simple
  • Moving
  • Propaganda

• Art is one of the few places where you can put it in a constructive way where it won't burn you up inside or hurt anyone.

  

  Eric Drooker
  • Art
  • Hurt
  • Constructive

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