Destructive Quotes
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When change is necessary, not to change is destructive!
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Conscious choice is creative. Unconscious choice is destructive. That is how we end up living other people's lives.
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Want to know what’s more destructive than a nuclear bomb? Words.
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It wasn't that expectations changed. But [teens] went from general expectations of success to having no idea of the right thing to do. In the '60s there was a strong prejudice against careerism. We were self-indulgent and self-destructive.
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The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive.
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For many years, I struggled with how I felt about myself. I hid and harbored very self-destructive eating issues, namely anorexia, which at its worst caused me to lose half of my hair and brought my weight down dramatically.
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Over the years our research team has repeatedly found that chronic emotional abuse and neglect can be just as devastating as physical abuse and sexual molestation.1 Sherry turned out to be a living example of these findings: Not being seen, not being known, and having nowhere to turn to feel safe is devastating at any age, but it is particularly destructive for young children, who are still trying to find their place in the world.
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We may think we are smarter than all other animals, but our destructive acts to nature and other animals do not validate this.
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The habit of expressing loosely organized opinions is one of the most destructive of habits.
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Worry is an unhealthy and destructive mental habit.
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Through microscopic examination one can find in almost every life incidents or traits that can be destructive when they are magnified.
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Our unleashed words can be every bit as damaging and destructive as any other kind of aggressive outburst.
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And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly.
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Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.
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Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!
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Some twenty boys sat behind wilfully collapsible desks, occupying their brief intermission in various more or less destructive and useless ways.
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There are aspects of human life that are not purely destructive, and there is a need to pay attention to the things around us while they are still around us. And you know, in a way, if you don't pay that attention, the anger is just bitterness.
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I am not self-destructive. I am not a person who wants to die.
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Nothing is more destructive of individual character than for a man to lose all faith in his own abilities for the prosecution of his work.
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I don't find any kind of tension very productive, I find it destructive, actually.
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Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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The French, unfortunately, actually believe what they say, and that has been very destructive.
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Self-pity is the most destructive of all narcotics.
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There's a world of difference between a strong ego, which is essential, and a large ego-which can be destructive.
