Bad thoughts quickly ripen into bad actions.
Everything was for tomorrow, but tomorrow never came. The present was only a bridge and on this bridge they are still groaning, as the world groans, and not one idiot ever thinks of blowing up the bridge.
Insecurity kills all that is beautiful.
I've always been very impatient. At age 10 I frankly found life boring, and I can remember age 9 having the awful thought, as it seems now looking back on it, A war! That should liven things up a bit!
I got some bad ideas in my head.
The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosives and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices, to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy. And a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own
In large part he was referring to McCarthyism and the Red Scare.
Revenge, we find, the abject pleasure of an abject mind.
O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men!
Destructive thoughts and emotions undermine the very causes of peace and happiness. If you think clearly about it, it makes no sense to think you’re seeking happiness, if you do nothing to restrain angry, spiteful, and malicious thoughts and emotions.
There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.
To think is to destroy.
If a person's mind is controlled by forces of revenge and jealousy, it cannot express love & sympathy. And even if they show love and sympathy to others it will yield no good result. The thought will not be reflected in love but in hate.
Answerless questions can destroy you. Move on.
Doubt, not self-reflection, comes from a destructive energy, and when it rears its head, I talk to it like a lunatic.
Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail on water all around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship.
When the beginnings of self destruction enter the heart, it seems no bigger than a grain of sand.
All I could think of when I got a look at the place from the outside was what fun it would be to stand out there and watch it burn down.
I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.
I have a vivid, apocalyptic imagination.
Thought would destroy their paradise.
I planted a seed of hatred in my heart. I swore it would grow to be a massive tree whose roots would strangle them all.