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It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth. ↗

— Helen Garner

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The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical. ↗

— Henry George

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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

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

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

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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

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Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another. ↗

— Anne Sullivan Macy

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

— Jena Malone

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

— Shirley Manson

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Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive. ↗

— Margaret Mead

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I know I have a very self-destructive tendency since my mother died, I have got to be honest. ↗

— George Michael

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