When you look at Trump, you can really see someone who's destructive to any form of life enhancement in virtually every area.
The signs of excessive indulgence in this destructive pastime are easily detectable. They are these: A disposition to eat, to drink, to smoke, to meet together convivially, to laugh, to joke, and tell indelicate stories— and mainly, a yearning to paint pictures.
The French, unfortunately, actually believe what they say, and that has been very destructive.
The destructive power of a lie is stronger than the truth.
When we are caught up in a destructive emotion, we lose one of our greatest assets: our independence.
and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure.
I don't think there's any harm at all in allowing a kid to fantasize. In fact, I think to stop people from fantasizing is a very destructive thing indeed.
Not rarely, and this is especially true of wives and mothers, the motive behind assuming a disproportionate share of work and responsibility is completely unselfish. We want to protect, to spare those of whom we are fond. We forget that, regardless of the motive, the results of such action are almost always destructive and unproductive.
Studies say great harm can be done to a person if the connection between mother and child isn´t there from the start. Love is a basic needinstinct, and people can get quite desperate and become destructive if they don´t have it.
There are aspects of human life that are not purely destructive, and there is a need to pay attention to the things around us while they are still around us. And you know, in a way, if you don't pay that attention, the anger is just bitterness.
I'm a very emotional person, a person of real extremes, and that's often destructive both to myself and others.
To advocate irrationality is to advocate that which is destructive to human life.
Although my view is a world-wide one and my area of observation is Europe, the nation closest to my heart is, understandably, my homeland. And it is a fortunate coincidence, fortunate in terms of the explanation of the world, that it is this country which is the clearest example of the playground of destructive development in the whole world.
I allowed myself to suffer how jarringly destructive the present feels and how fragile the past.
Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature!
I think I had gotten messages really young that poetry wasn't for me, that it was for, basically, some dead white men. My experience and my intellect was on the outside of understanding that. I think that's what's so destructive.
There is no disease so destructive as lust.
We have progressed in a technological sense, but I'm not so sure whether we have progressed in a civilizational matter - the quality of the civilization has not improved. It's a civilization that's in love with technology but forgetting about the human side of it and the destructive tendency in human civilization has not been faced.
Perfectionism is self destructive simply because there's no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal.
Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.