Destructive Quotes

Writers transform: they throw a hand grenade into the notion of reality that people carry around in their heads. That's very dangerous, very destructive, but not to do it means you are satisfied with the status quo - and that's a kind of danger as well, because a kind of violence is already being perpetuated.

How clever of me. I have found such a pathway into hell that I can never get back out.

At some time in their careers, most good historians itch to write a history of the world, endeavor to discover what makes humanity the most destructive and creative of species.

[Referring to Jefferson Davis:] ... as cold as a lizzard with the ambition of Lucifer, and what he touches will not prosper.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

More and more I feel like the boy who cut off his nose to spite his face.

An evil word it is/ This Love.

There are people (men and women both, unfortunately) who have no good in them--none. That there are people whom it is necessary to detest without compromise. That there are people who must be dealt with as enemies of the human race. That there are people who have no human heart, and who must be crushed like savage beasts and cleared out of the way

No, my dear, I'm not in love with you, no more than you are with me, and if I were, you would be the last person I'd ever tell. God help the man who ever really loves you. You'd break his heart, my darling, cruel, destructive little cat who is so careless and confident she doesn't even trouble to sheathe her claws.

Worry is one of the most destructive scourges of mankind.

War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.

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

I actually found it very moving how destructive depression is. I was really saddened by this burden people have to handle.

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

The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive.

Revenge is the raging fire that consumes the arsonist.

Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.

I can't think of a single area where [Barack] Obama is not destructive.

Modern terrorism is too destructive to be tolerated, much less supported.

He can be lethal death.

[On World War II:] The war, which destroyed so much of everything, was also constructive, in a way. It established clearly the cold, and finally unhypocritical fact that the most important thing on earth to men today is money.

It was spring break, so the theater was always packed with high schools students. It was an animal house. I wanted to burn the place down.

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

Love is a kind of possession. It’s a poison.

Twitter," said Manny, waving his hand. "You know what that is? Termites with microphones.