The world is beset by many problems, but in my opinion, this hijacking of our brain's reward centers by electronic media is potentially one of the most destructive.
Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing.
If you don't find some way to discuss what's going on inside you, it can come out in other ways that are self-destructive.
In my experience endings are false positives. Perhaps like a phoenix, out of the ashes of destruction we could be reborn." -Cassandra Rainbow in PHOENIX-
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.
The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.
Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. It has swallowed up over half a dozen countries since World War II.
There's no nobility with war. It's tear-'em-up destruction that leaves you frustrated, bitter and angry... If you really knew what it was like for an hour, you wouldn't want anyone to go through it.
Every morning I wake up to have the same hope, that mankind had survived its own greed, its own desire to self-destruct, its own monopoly to destroy the environment regardless of the consequences, its own religious and ideological dogma that kept it ...
Any philosophy, whether of a religious or political nature - and sometimes the dividing line is hard to determine - fights less for the negative destruction of the opposing ideology than for the positive promotion of its own. Hence its struggle is le...
The only absolute truth is change, and death is the only way to stop change. Life is a series of judgments on changing situations, and no ideal, no belief fits every solution. Yet humans need to believe in something beyond themselves. Perhaps all int...
Fire isn't always an element of destruction. Classical alchemical doctrine teaches that it also has dominion over another province: change.
Lies and secrets, Tessa, they are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave only destruction behind.
there are men who are ancient and determined enemies of the Church of Rome who live in perpetual hope of its destruction
Democracy is a kingless regime infested by many kings who are sometimes more exclusive, tyrannical and destructive than one, even if he be a tyrant.
But insight doesn't necessarily produce self-control. Sometimes you just see your destructiveness more clearly.
An Odonian’s goal is positive, not negative. Suffering is dysfunctional, except as a bodily warning against danger. Psychologically and socially it’s merely destructive.
It’s funny. From up here, the destruction seems to fade. Almost as if like people, in time, even the world can heal itself.
They’ve worked the absolute-power-corrupts-absolutely truth since the beginning of time. They foment destruction and chaos. It puts them in their happy place.
Did the destruction of one dream leave a vacuum that required filling with another? Is a broken heart more vulnerable?
Our destructive thoughts are like dandelions, you either get the full root out, or they come back again and again". — Marie Cunningham
