Destructive Tendencies Quotes

We are a slack people but deeply destructive … I think that a constitutional regime would mean the end of Russia. We need a despot!

It's strange what desire will make foolish people do.

I spent the majority of time at school trying to break the rules. I would climb to the top of buildings; I even burned a building down once - not intentionally, just because I was interested in fire. I remember going through the rule book, ticking off the ones I had broken and looking for the ones I hadn't.

Greed has poisoned men's souls.

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.

We never left a set until we'd trashed it.

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

Party spirit was ... and always will be, wherever indulged, the bane of society and good neighborhood.

People are more afraid to love than they are to kill.

Did I help you toward a fate you didn't want, Alaska, or did I just assist in your willful self-destruction?

Bad thoughts quickly ripen into bad actions.

I should've blown more stuff up." -Coach Gleeson Hedge

There's nothing cool about being self-destructive.

If you had the seeds of pestilence in your body you would not have a more active contagion that you have in your tempers, tastes, and principles. Simply to be in this world, whatever you are, is to exert an influence, compared with which mere language and persuasion are feeble.

Humanity was drawn to turmoil and self-destruction as inevitably as the earth was drawn to complete its annual revolution of the sun.

We humans are a fairly barbarous bunch.

A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.

As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.

I'm incredibly self-destructive.

I was really, really wild in my early twenties and a bit self-destructive.

beware the average man the average woman beware their love, their love is average seeks average but there is genius in their hatred there is enough genius in their hatred to kill you to kill anybody not wanting solitude not understanding solitude they will attempt to destroy anything that differs from their own not being able to create art they will not understand art they will consider their failure as creators only as a failure of the world

I can tell you that I am not self-destructive. I'm not a person who wants to die. I'm a person who has life, who wants to live. And I always have. And I wouldn't mistake it for anything else other than that.

Foolish people are never harmless. Stupidity accounts for as many crimes as anger and greed.

I would take anything I love and throw it off the highest cliff you ever saw and not wait to hear it bounce.