#destructive

I'm still a firm believer that we were definitely put here to use our minds, and that is what makes us different. And that that's the key. If there is anything that is going to stop mankind from being such a beastly, destructive creature, it is reason. ↗

— Caleb Carr

#beastly #being #believer #creature #definitely

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#contains #destructive #envy #feeling #guise

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

#behaviour #destructive #destructiveness #disturbing #echoes

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

#any #black #circles #condemned #destructive

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

— Margaret Mead

#constructive #destructive #human #human nature #nature

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

— George Michael

#got #honest #i #know #mother

When you look at other countries that are developing the capabilities and the technology to deploy missiles of very significant destructive capability with nuclear, chemical, or biological warheads, then the MAD dogma makes even less sense. ↗

— Don Nickles

#capabilities #capability #chemical #countries #deploy

But we moderns are impatient and destructive. ↗

— John C. Ransom

#impatient #moderns

There were days that I literally had no reason to get out of bed. It just was so destructive for me. ↗

— Joey Lauren Adams

#days #destructive #get #had #i

The anti-elitist values in America, I think, are very destructive to education. ↗

— Joshua Jackson

#destructive #education #i #i think #think