Destructive Behavior Quotes

We really do prefer to build things rather than destroy things, believe it or not.

When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, "Who is destroying the world?" You are.

Only self-hatred could lead him to ruin himself because his heart was "broken.

Doing something extraordinarily good is very hard to do and you could fail. Extraordinarily bad is easy to do - it's much easier to burn down a building than to build one.

Malice drinketh up the greater part of its own poison.

All drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self-esteem. They’re no good at all. But I’m not going to go around preaching against them.

Evil, in this system of ethics, is that which tears apart, shuts out the other person, raises barriers, sets people against each other.

Being angry is like picking up a knife with no handle: it is self-harming.

When humans act like animals, they become the most dangerous of animals to themselves and other humans, and this is because of another critical difference between humans and animals: Whereas animals are usually restrained by the limits of physical appetites, humans have mental appetites that can be far more gross and capacious than physical ones. Only humans squander and hoard, murder and pillage because of notions.

… a better hand at pulling down than building.

Boredom is the beginning of all destruction and everything that is negative.

I just broke up all the furniture in the house. My mother had to get rid of me. So she put me in dance class.

Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquents.

Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

Reactionary movements can't sustain themselves unless they find something new to catch and burn on.

Don't be a rock star. I've seen people around me have their lives destroyed by drugs. It just depends on what kind of person you are. Like, some people have a "go" button and a "stop" button, and some people just have the "go" button, meaning that they take drugs and just take more, and more, and more. It could be 6 in the morning and they'll say, "Okay, I have to get more now." I'm not that kind of person.

When you glorify violence, then it comes back to bite you.

Like the tiger, that seldom desists from pursuing man after having once preyed upon human flesh, the reader who has once gratified his appetite with calumny makes ever after the most agreeable feast upon murdered reputations!

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Americans–mostly under 30–are determined to destroy our society

for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men

Hatred, anger, and violence can destroy us: the politics of polarization is dangerous.

Men ruin themselves headlong for unworthy women.

Violence does not contribute to anything.

Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power - not because they don't see it, but because they see it and they don't want it to exist.