Quotes with destructive

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  • Anne Sullivan Macy Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.
    Anne Sullivan Macy
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Barbara Amiel Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. It has swallowed up over half a dozen countries since World War II.
    Barbara Amiel
    British journalist, writer, and socialite (1940 - )
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh People don't want to be understood, I mean not completely. It's too destructive. Then they haven't anything left.
    Bring Me a Unicorn (1971)
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith 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
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • John W. Gardner Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.
    John W. Gardner
    American Educator, Social Activist (1912 - 2002)
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  • Alan Watts 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
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Walter Benjamin The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Ernest Dimnet The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
    Ernest Dimnet
    French priest, writer and lecturer (1866 - 1954)
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  • Henry George The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical.
    Henry George
    American political economist and journalist (1839 - 1897)
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  • Basil Bunting The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.
    Basil Bunting
    British poet (1900 - 1985)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Douglas Jerrold There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.
    Douglas Jerrold
    English journalist and playwright (1803 - 1857)
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  • Bertrand Russell Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Alan Watts Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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