#destructive

Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears. ↗

— Albert Bandura

#against #appeals #conduct #deaf #destructive

The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#destructive #feeling #life #lives #living

For me, acting was a way of taking destructive energy and doing something productive with it, and in that way it was quite a life saver. ↗

— Nicolas Cage

#destructive #doing #energy #life #me

Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

#because #destructive #essentially #forbidden #hatred

I still have highs and lows, just like any other person. What's missing is the lack of control over the super highs, which became destructive, and the super lows, which are immediately destructive. ↗

— Patty Duke

#became #control #destructive #highs #i

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#destructive #enforced #government #land #law

This mass destructive weapons were sold to Iraqi government by the United States. And Mr. Rumsfeld has been one of the man responsible for this sale, for this bargain, for this market. ↗

— Jacques Verges

#been #destructive #government #iraqi #iraqi government

I came away from the forums with a profound concern about the highly addictive and destructive nature of methamphetamine. Families are torn apart, lives are destroyed and treatment is difficult to get. ↗

— Greg Walden

#addictive #apart #away #came #concern

I have a pathological fear of being on my own. When I'm with my own thoughts, I start to unravel myself, and I start to think really dark thoughts, self-destructive thoughts. ↗

— David Walliams

#dark #fear #i #my own #myself

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe. ↗

— Alan Watts

#hands #only #people #process #realize