The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.
It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!
There is a self-destructive program running in the consciousness of humanity, and we must write a new program.
We must take the money out of politics, and end psychopathic, self-destructive government and corporate madness.
The best method for preventing destructive cult involvement is preventative education. If students and the public at large are more aware of destructive groups beforehand they may better understand and resist their recruitment efforts.
People like to let loose at rock concerts and it gives them an excuse to do it in a way that is not destructive to others and not really destructive to the band.
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.
A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.
If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.
I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.
We hear so much about weapons of mass destruction. But nine out of 10 war victims are killed by guns. It's the AK-47 that's a weapon of mass destruction.
So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.
Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.
Creation and destruction are the two ends of the same moment. And everything between the creation and the next destruction is the journey of life.
A destructive thought process exists within all of us, and we are plagued to varying degrees by an internal dialogue that is harmful, restrictive, and at its ultimate extreme, self-destructive.
For as Jews, the problem happens to be more urgent and vital than for others; because the destruction of religion on America will involve the destruction also of the religious training of freedom; and with that our civil liberties.
But successful investors tend to be not too self-destructive. They tend to be patient, they tend not to follow the crowd, and they tend not to be too guilty about winning.
Self-destruction is inevitable because existence is a full-time job.
The total destruction of falsehood allows authentic creative flow to happen.
