In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.
Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.
This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.
The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical.
Wouldn’t you rather play chess, Ma’am?....It’s less destructive of clothes.
Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.
Moreover, in the experimental sciences, the scientific fraternity must test a new theory to destruction, if possible.
violent storms. and beautiful smiles. both have electricity. both are equally destructive in nature.
The thing the Buddhists and the Sufis have in common is a belief that religious certainties are destructive.
According to Mr. Obama, exceptionalism is so yesterday, an uncool, antiquated and ultimately destructive notion.
Never glorify anger; as anger is only destructive! You can never be happy destroying something!
For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction.
The American Republic was bound - is still bound - to follow in the centuries to come the same course to destruction as did Rome.
There's so much destruction all over the world - and all you can do is complain about ME!
It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.
Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction.
Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame's is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement.
If the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government.
The world has been experiencing a whole pattern of auto-destruction, whether in environmental disasters like Chernobyl or health disasters like AIDS.
Have any of our friends got off the Island with their families, or what must they submit to? Despotism or destruction, I fear, is their fate.
