#destructive

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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I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#advocated #both #complete #destructiveness #disputes

I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#faculty #guess #habit #i #logical

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

— Margaret Mead

#constructive #destructive #human #human nature #nature

The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness. ↗

— Dorothy Thompson

#creates #destructive #element #fear #human

Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after. ↗

— Alan Watts

#based #destroy #destructive #far #more

I know what it is to want something that could destroy you. ↗

— Nenia Campbell

#want #wanting #behavior

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

— Alexis Carrel

#because #destructive #essentially #forbidden #hatred

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

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