“ The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity too great for the eye of man. ”
- Sir William Blake- Copy
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“ There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body. ”
- Douglas William Jerrold- Copy
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“ We love peace, but not peace at any price. There is a peace more destructive of the manhood of living man, than war is destructive to his body. Chains are worse than bayonets. ”
- Douglas William Jerrold- Copy
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“ The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this counrty is closely related with this. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger. ”
- Raymond G. Swing- Copy
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“ What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast. ”
- May Sarton- Copy
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“ Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ The protection of evil must be the most self-destructive job. ”
- Alice Walker- Copy
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“ The $864 billion Republican tax cut is a destructive plan that will eat the surplus alive and suck the VA dry. They are trading veterans for votes and it is shameful. ”
- Lane Evans- Copy
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“ Children are a house's enemy. They don't mean to be-they just can't help it. It's their enthusiasm, their energy, their naturally destructive tendencies. ”
- Delia Ephron- Copy
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“ Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty. ”
- Stephen Jay Gould- Copy
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“ Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever. ”
- Arthur Henderson- Copy
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“ Uncontrolled emotion is as undisciplined and needlessly destructive as starting a forest fire with a carelessly tossed match or cigarette. After all, forests can be replanted. ”
- Loretta Young- Copy
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“ The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. ”
- Ernet Dimner- Copy
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“ The most self-destructive thought that any person can have is thinking that he or she is not in total control of his or her life. That's when, "Why me?" becomes a theme song. ”
- Roger Dawson- Copy
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“ Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self. ”
- Millicent Fenwick- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ To be free of destructive stress don't sweat the small stuff and by realizing that all stuff is small. ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government… ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive and more constructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person. ”
- Frank Barron- Copy
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“ America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive. ”
- Johannes A. Gaertner- Copy
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“ Faith is courage; it is creative, while despair is always destructive. ”
- David S. Muzzey- Copy
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“ I have known war as few men now living know it. Its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes. ”
- Dorothee Soelle- Copy
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“ I never guess. It is a shocking habit — destructive to the logical faculty. ”
- Arthur Conan Doyle- Copy
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“ I wander if there really is a brave man with a really good imagination? If hypocrisy was destructive to the environment the world would have ended a long, long time ago. ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ Management that is destructively critical when mistakes are made kills initiative and it's essential that we have many people with initiative if we're to continue to grow. ”
- Lewis Lehr- Copy
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