#destructive

The destructive character knows only one watchword: make room; only one activity: clearing away ... The destructive character is young and cheerful. For destroying rejuvenates in clearing away traces of our own age ... ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#age

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

Aggression is inherently destructive of relationships. People and ideologies are pitted against each other, believing that in order to survive, they must destroy the opposition. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#aggression #believing #destroy #destructive #each

For eons, humans have struggled to find less destructive ways of living together. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#find #humans #less #living #struggled

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss! ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#bliss #charming #colors #consummate #deceptive

Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#constraining #dangerous #destructive #dogmatic #innovation

Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#become #been #common #destructive #end

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