Toxic Cycle Quotes

The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders hostility; hostility engenders fear, a disastrous circle.

Violence begets violence, and then you get leaders who are violent men. And you don't want that.

Distrust naturally creates distrust.

We grow despite the horror that we feed upon our own tomorrow. We grow.

Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.

He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.

To caress the serpent that devours us, until it has eaten away our heart.

What feeds me destroys me.

The song is about knowing the end result of every situation you're in, and being able to play it out in your mind and see it before it happens. It's about addiction, really, about knowing how it's all going to end up. In that sense, you're watching a movie of yourself all the time - and then you want out of that movie.

There is an interesting interplay between power corrupting and corruption empowering. The causality does not go one way.

Let's start working towards wellness, a healing in our community, a healing in relationships, so male and female can finally sit down and understand that that young boy or young girl saw behavior exhibited by their parents that was negative and abusive and they're going to pass it on.

Sober Thoughts' is a song about an unhealthy relationship I was in with a girl, where we would continue to mistreat each other, to spite each other. We were bad for each other, yet we always came back together, because we thought we 'loved each other.' It was a young love, not a forever love.