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“A living creature develops a destructive impulse when it wants to destroy a source of danger... The original motive is not pleasure in destruction... I destroy in a dangerous situation because I want to live and do not want to have any anxiety. In short, the impulse to destroy serves a primary biological will to live.”

Want Pleasure Situation Dangerous Danger Source Creatures Anxiety Destruction Originals Primaries Impulse Motive Destructive Living Creatures Will To Live Dangerous Situations

Author:Wilhelm Reich

“Even in heavenly pleasures he finds no satisfaction, the disciple who is fully awakened delights only in the destruction of all desires.”

Desire Pleasure Destruction Satisfaction Delight Heavenly Disciple Awakened

Book:Sacred Books of the East: Including Selections from the Vedic Hymns, Zend-Avesta, Dhammapada, Upanishads, the Koran, and the Life of Buddha

Source: Sacred Books of the East: Including Selections from the Vedic Hymns, Zend-Avesta, Dhammapada, Upanishads, the Koran, and the Life of Buddha

“If we cannot meet our everyday surroundings with equanimity and pleasure and grow each day in some useful direction, then... life is on the road toward misfortune, misery and destruction.”

Ifs Life Is Grows Pleasure Destruction Misery Everyday Each Day Misfortunes Surroundings Equanimity

Author:Luther Burbank

“There is not a little generalship and stratagem required in the managing and marshalling of our pleasures, so that each shall not mutually encroach to the destruction of all. For pleasures are very voracious, too apt to worry one another, and each, like Aaron's serpent, is prone to swallow up the rest. Thus drinking will soon destroy the power, gaming the means, and sensuality the taste, for other pleasures less seductive, but far more salubrious, and permanent as they are pure.”

Mean Littles Pleasure Worry Taste Pure Destruction Drinking Sensuality Permanent Seductive Serpent Gaming Stratagem

Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“Mankind's self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order.”

Firsts Self Order Pleasure Virtue Mankind Degrees Destruction Aesthetic Alienation

Author:Jerry Mander

“From the 5th grade through the 4th year of college, our young people are being indoctrinated with a Marxist philosophy and I am fearful of the harvest. The younger generation is further to the left than most adults realize. The old concepts of our Founding Fathers are scoffed and jeered at by young moderns whose goals appear to be the destruction of integrity and virtue, and the glorification of pleasure, thrills, and self-indulgence.”

“I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted, I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.”

Heart Art Reason Might Pleasure Doubt My Heart Destruction Mere Destroyed Deviation

Book:The 120 days of Sodom and other writings

Source: The 120 days of Sodom and other writings

“Drama is hate. Drama is pushing your pain onto others. Drama is destruction. Some take pleasure in creating drama while others make excuses to stay stuck in drama. I choose not to step into a web of drama that I can't get out of.”

I Can Pain Hate Pleasure Steps Drama Creating Destruction Excuse Stuck Pushing

Author:Bindu

“Many young people adopt pleasures for which they have not the least taste, only because they are called by that name.... You mustallow that drunkenness, which is equally destructive to body and mind, is a fine pleasure. Gaming, that draws you into a thousand scraps, leaves you penniless, and gives you the air and manners of an outrageous madman, is another most exquisite pleasure, is it not? As to running after women, the consequences of that vice are only the loss of one's nose, the total destruction of health, and, not unfrequently, the being run through the body.”

“We say, then, that Scripture clearly proves this much, that God by his eternal and immutable counsel determined once for all those whom it was his pleasure one day to admit to salvation, and those whom, on the other hand, it was his pleasure to doom to destruction. We maintain that this counsel, as regards the elect, is founded on his free mercy, without any respect to human worth, while those whom he dooms to destruction are excluded from access to life by a just and blameless, but at the same time incomprehensible judgment”

Humans Hands Pleasure One Day Prove Judgment Eternal Destruction Mercy Regard Salvation Determined Access Scripture Doom Excluded Blameless

Book:The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)

Source: The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)

“No matter how many pleasures Satan offers you, his ultimate intention is to ruin you. Your destruction is his highest priority.”

Matter Pleasure Offers Highest Destruction Ultimate Intention Priorities Ruins Satan

Book:Getting to No: How to Break a Stubborn Habit

Source: Getting to No: How to Break a Stubborn Habit

“I think maybe the destructive pleasure got turned into the destructive pleasure of war (something we see still in the images of US soldiers urinating on the dead bodies of Taliban soldiers). Something of the pleasure in destruction gets unleashed, and then becomes part of war effort rationalised first as revenge (or justice defined as revenge). But then it takes new forms, as we see now.”

Thinking Firsts Stills War Body Form Justice Pleasure Effort Destruction Soldier Revenge Defined Destructive Art Of War Taliban Unleashed

Author:Judith Butler

“The star [Tycho's supernova] was at first like Venus and Jupiter, giving pleasing effects; but as it then became like Mars, there will next come a period of wars, seditions, captivity and death of princes, and destruction of cities, together with dryness and fiery meteors in the air, pestilence, and venomous snakes. Lastly, the star became like Saturn, and there will finally come a time of want, death, imprisonment and all sorts of sad things.”

“The true gardener then brushes over the ground with slow and gentle hand, to liberate a space for breath round some favorites; but he is not thinking about destruction except incidentally. It is only the amateur like myself who becomes obsessed and rejoices with a sadistic pleasure in weeds that are big and bad enough to pull, and at last, almost forgetting the flowers altogether, turns into a Reformer.”

Thinking Enough Hands Bigs Lasts Turns Space Forget Pleasure Flower Destruction Breaths Rounds Gentle Obsessed Weed Rejoice Brushes Gardener Reformers Sadistic

Author:Freya Stark

“Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case.”

Whole Feelings Pain Form Humanity Evil Pleasure Animal Compassion Cases Duty Capable Capacity Destruction Species Pain And Pleasure

Author:John Rawls

“He believed that all people existed behind varying layers of armor which, like the archaeological layers of earth itself, reflected the historical events and turbulence of a lifetime. An individual's armor that had been developed to resist pain and rejection might also block a capacity for pleasure and achievement, and feelings too deeply trapped might be released only by acts of self-destruction or harm to others. Reich was convinced that sexual deprivation and frustration motivated much of the world's chaos and warfare.”