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  • Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action. If it leads to change then it can be useful, since it is then no longer guilt but the beginning of knowledge. Yet all too often, guilt is just another name for impotence, for defensiveness destructive of communication; it becomes a device to protect ignorance and the continuation of things the way they are, the ultimate protection for changelessness.

    Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.130, Crossing Press
  • The possession of power over others is inherently destructive both to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

  • The idea is to identify a destructive thought pattern, then simply label it and watch it and let it pass by whenever it appears in your mind.

    Ideas   Mind   Watches  
    "Think your way free of old problems" by Martha Beck, edition.cnn.com. November 26, 2007.
  • You'll also hear about the widening gap in the educated and the uneducated. The liberals will all say, "We must do something about it" and some in our population swoon, "Oh, yes, it's so unfair, and so unfortunate, and we've gotta do something about the inequality." So the Democrats then have their reason to do something about it, and the way they go about it is not trying to make people equal at all. The way they go about it is not even rooted in changing inequality, at the end of the day. The way they go about it is destructive for everybody.

    Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com
  • I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.

    Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “The Sign of the Four”, p.21, Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Free passion is radiation without a radiator, a fluid, pervasive warmth that flows effortlessly. It is not destructive because it is a balanced state of being and highly intelligent. Self-consciousness inhibits this intelligent, balanced state of being. By opening, by dropping our self-conscious grasping, we see not only the surface of an object, but we see the whole way through.

    Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings”, p.244, Shambhala Publications
  • Faith in anything, be it positive or negative, produces results. Putting faith in fear generates destructive results, beginning with the disintegration of our ability to relate confidently to the external world.

    Caroline Myss (2013). “Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing”, p.138, Harmony
  • Reviews are destructive by their very nature.

    "New Again: John Malkovich". Interview with Becky Johnston, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 10, 2015.
  • With proper tactics, nuclear war need not be as destructive as it appears.

    War   Needs   Nuclear  
  • In the terms of our Great Society the Hell's Angels and their ilk are losers - dropouts, failures and malcontents. They are rejects looking for a way to get even with a world in which they are only a problem.The Hell's Angels are not visionaries, but diehards, and if they are the forerunners or the vanguard of anything it is not the "moral revolution" in vogue on college campuses, but a fast-growing legion of young unemployables whose untapped energy will inevitably find the same kind of destructive outlet that "outlaws" like the Hell's Angels have been finding for years.

    Angel   College   Years  
  • The creative instincts, the love force must be nourished with every beat of our hearts until they overbalance the destructive instincts.

    Gladys Bagg Taber (1948). “The book of Stillmeadow”
  • When you do things in a selfish way, let alone a destructive way, then you are bound by that karma. Your state of mind will go down. You will find yourself becoming depressed, nervous, anxious and upset.

    Karma   Selfish   Upset  
  • Automobiles are often conveniently tagged as the villains responsible for the ills of cities and the disappointments and futilities of city planning. But the destructive effect of automobiles are much less a cause than a symptom of our incompetence at city building.

    Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.7, Vintage
  • Ideas have consequences, and totally erroneous ideas are likely to have destructive consequences.

    Steve Allen (1993). “More Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion and Morality”
  • The destructive fixation of the envious English-Canadian mind requires that the highest, happiest most agile flyers be laid low. [It is] a sadistic desire corroded by soul-destroying envy, to intimidate all those who might aspire to anything the slightest exceptional.

    Envy   Soul   Mind  
  • Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

    Giving   Ashes   Safe  
    Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.88, Canongate Books
  • If you want a commercial success - it's the confusion of commerce with art. A successful play is not considered to be the best written. It is the one that sells the most tickets. Those standards are destructive [to theatre].

    Art   Successful   Play  
    The Believer Interview, www.believermag.com. September 2013.
  • Everything is destroyed by its own particular vice: the destructive power resides within. Rust destroys iron, moths destroy clothes, the worm eats away the wood; but greatest of all evils is envy, impious habitant of corrupt souls, which ever was, is, and shall be a consuming disease.

    War   Iron   Clothes  
  • My vision of a better world would be one under the control of a strong United Nations, one that truly has the support of all countries in the world. Only an effective world government could provide sufficient law and have the power to control the unboundaried destructive forces of pollution and war. I will continue to be a leader in the World Federalist Association.

    Country   Strong   War  
  • Love is always creative, fear always destructive.

  • There is no glory in honesty if it is destructive. And no shame in dishonesty if its goal is to offer grace.

    Life   Honesty   Lying  
  • The protection of evil must be the most self-destructive job.

    Jobs   Self   Evil  
    Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.274, Hachette UK
  • We, the elders, have been patiently waiting until the last moment before quantum transformation. The destructive one-fourth must be eliminated from the social body.

    Waiting   Body   Lasts  
  • At the end of the first half-century of engine-driven flight, we are confronted with the stark fact that the historical significance of aircraft has been primarily military and destructive.

  • If a steaming hot potato fell in your hands you would get it off you as soon as you could. Do the same with negative destructive thoughts- just release them as fast as you can.

    FaceBook post by John Assaraf from Jan 28, 2013
  • Donald Trump and the Bomb are nearly the same age. Which of them will prove to be more destructive remains to be seen, but in combination they are terrifying.

    Age   Bombs   Trump  
    Source: www.counterpunch.org
  • Thus the creative genius may be at once nave and knowledgeable, being at home equally to primitive symbolism and to rigorous logic. He is both more primitive and more cultured, more destructive and more constructive, occasionally crazier and yet adamantly saner, than the average person.

  • You spend hours alone, only with your thoughts, and you torture yourself. It's a tendency of many writers to temper the self-destructive act of writing with other self-destructive acts. I certainly was one of those people for a long time.

    Writing   Self   Long  
  • Changing the destructive things you say to yourself when you experience the setbacks that life deals all of us is the central skill of optimism.

    Skills   Optimism   Deals  
    Martin E.P. Seligman (2011). “Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life”, p.39, Vintage
  • The longest and most destructive party ever held is now into its fourth generation and still no one shows any signs of leaving. The problem of when the drink is going to run out is, however, going to have to be faced one day. The planet over which they are floating is no longer the planet it was when they first started floating over it. It is in bad shape

    Running   Future   Party  
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