Destructive Quotes

You cannot stop destructive actions by others, but you can stop your own destructive reactions to them

When change is necessary, not to change is destructive!

I have a theory that theories are destructive.

Tell me what you are for, and I will show you what is going to expand in a positive way. Tell me what you are against, and I can show you what is going to expand in a destructive way.

Destructive fear must be stopped in its tracks or it will undermine the life God invites us to live.

The sin that is most destructive in your life right now is the one you are most defensive about.

The only thing more destructive than a tornado is a family.

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

Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.

Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.

There is no disease so destructive as lust.

Ideas have consequences, and totally erroneous ideas are likely to have destructive consequences.

Agriculture is the most destructive industry that we have. More than coal mining and other extractive industries.

But we moderns are impatient and destructive.

Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.

What you don't do can be a destructive force.

Words are so awesome. Words are containers for power. They carry either creative power or destructive power.

We have the power to abstain from destructive behavior.

Familiarity is the most destructive of all iconoclasts.

Scientology is destructive and a rip-off.

My worst habit is my fear & my destructive rationalizing.

But what is criticism? Criticism is purely destructive; anyone can destroy, but not everyone can build up.

When you learn how much bycatch comes from shrimp [and how destructive it is] - I'm not going to eat shrimp anymore.

I've always had this impulse to be destructive.

Reviews are destructive by their very nature.

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

The French, unfortunately, actually believe what they say, and that has been very destructive.

I've really carelessly gotten out of relationships that were incredibly destructive instead of being honest.

Enlightenment is a destructive process.

Indian nationalism is not exclusive, nor aggressive, nor destructive.

Vulgarity is not as destructive to an artist as snobbery.

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

Society becomes very destructive.

ACLU has become eccentric and destructive.

I was really, really wild in my early twenties and a bit self-destructive.

Office romances are few, short, and not usually destructive.

Having books published is very destructive to writing.