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“Racism is a destructive and artificially-manufactured element in the collective human psyche designed to fragment the natural desire of human beings to know and love one another”

Knows Humans Desire Natural Human Beings Elements Racism And Love Destructive Collectives Fragments Love One Another Human Psyche

Author:Jane Urquhart

“Many Americans do not want persons who openly engage in homosexual conduct as partners in their business, as scoutmasters for their children, as teachers in their children's schools, or as boarders in their home. They view this as protecting themselves and their families from a lifestyle that they believe to be immoral and destructive.”

Want Believe Children Persons Home School Views Teacher Partners Lifestyle Destructive Homosexual Immoral Scoutmasters

Book:Scalia's Court: A Legacy of Landmark Opinions and Dissents

Source: Scalia's Court: A Legacy of Landmark Opinions and Dissents

“In the past, destruction of your neighbour might have been considered a victory, but today we are all interdependent. We live in a global economy; we face problems like climate change that affect us all. The 7 billion human beings alive today belong to one human family. In the context that others' interests are in our interest and our interest is in their interest, the use of force is self-destructive.”

“When possums were introduced in 1837 to start a fur industry, no one predicted that these Australian neighbours would naturalize with destructive enthusiasm, wreaking havoc on gardens and bush alike. Up to 20 million possums a year were killed during the height of the fur trade, but this barely checked their rapid expansion.”

Years Millions Industry Garden Trade Enthusiasm Height Destructive Expansion Rapids Neighbour Australian Fur Havoc Possums

Author:Bee Dawson

“Most relativists believe that relativism is absolutely true and that everyone should be a relativist. Therin lies the self-destructive nature of relativism. The relativist stands on the pinnacle of an absolute truth and wants to relativize everything else.”

Want Should Believe Self Lying Absolutes Destructive Absolute Truth Self Destructive Relativism Pinnacle

Author:Norman Geisler

“The lessons of history, confirmed by the evidence immediately before me, show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber. To dole out relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit. It is inimical to the dictates of a sound policy. It is in violation of the traditions of America.”

Source: The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“The welfare state corrupts family life. Even Democrats have acknowledged the destructive consequences of the welfare state on the underclass. It has rendered vast numbers of male unnecessary to females, who have looked to the state to support them and their children (and the more children, the more state support) rather than to husbands. In effect, these women took the state as their husband.”

Children States Numbers Support Effects Husband Consequence Female Democrat Males Welfare Destructive Unnecessary Family Life Welfare State

Author:Dennis Prager

“The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white - who find in that paranoid vision an excuse for counterproductive and ultimately self-destructive attitudes and behavior.”

Self Left Black White Attitude Vision Worst Behavior Bottom Excuse Envy Destructive Resentment Paranoid Tolls Self Destructive Black Or White Counterproductive

Author:Thomas Sowell

“Taxing the rich to fund the poorly managed government programs is simply a self-destructive decision: It does nothing more than move money and investment decisions away from proven moneymakers (read: job producers) to Washington amateurs. In both cases, American's lose.”

Doe Self Government Jobs Moving Loses Decision Cases Rich Program Investment Producers Destructive Fund Proven Self Destructive Government Programs

Author:T. J. Rodgers

“So-called 'higher education' is a veritable magnet for second-raters and actively destructive parasites bent on promoting unsound ideas to the inexperienced and gullible. The concentrate in areas like social studies, literature, and art - where opinion reigns supreme. And I find their opinions almost universally appalling.”

Art Ideas Literature Social Opinion Study Higher Areas Supreme Destructive Reign Bent Promoting Magnet Social Studies Higher Education Parasites Gullible Literature And Art

Author:Doug Casey

“Language is the most beautiful and destructive thing because it allows you to express yourself, but it totally confuses everything.”

Beautiful Language Destructive Express Yourself

Author:Nate Lowman

“We still find, especially in parts of academe, the damaging notion that everything is a struggle for power, or being empowered, or hegemony, or oppression: and that all competition is a zero-sum game. This is not more than repetition of Lenin's destructive doctrine. Intellectually, it is reductionism; politically, it is fanaticism.”

Stills Games Struggle Competition Notion Doctrine Oppression Destructive Zero Repetition Empowered Fanaticism Hegemony Reductionism Zero Sum Game

Author:Robert Conquest

“All the forms of double taxation in the current system are punitive and self-destructive because they are literally destroying people's incentive to provide that seed corn for future economic growth.”

People Self Form Growth Economic Currents Seeds Destructive Destroying Taxation Incentives Corn Economic Growth Self Destructive

Author:Daniel J. Mitchell

“Adolescence was invented in the 19th century to enable middle-class families to keep their children out of sweatshops. But it has degenerated into a process of enforced boredom and age segregation that has produced one of the most destructive social arrangements in human history: consigning 13-year-old males to learning from 15-year-old males.”

“Kindness that allows barriers to one's relationship with God to spring up is self-destructive.”

Self Kindness Spring Destructive Barriers Relationship With God Self Destructive

Author:Max Anders

“Grace doesn't lead us into destructive behavior. Sin does. And grace is the only remedy for sin. The kindness of God leads to repentance.”

Doe Sin Kindness Grace Behavior Destructive Repentance Remedy Destructive Behavior Kindness Of God

Author:Tullian Tchividjian

“Liberalism's fatal flaw,... is that it has no permanent norms, only a succession of enthusiasms espoused by minor prophets. Each of these seems like a hot new idea to liberals, but soon goes to irksome and destructive extremes.”

Ideas Seems Hot Extremes Enthusiasm Permanent Prophet Liberalism Destructive Flaws Minors New Ideas Norm Succession Fatal Flaws

Author:Joseph Sobran

“I would like to suggest to you that the extent to which government in America has departed from the original design of in habiting the destructive actions of man and invoking a common justice; the extent to which government has invaded the productive and creative areas; the extent to which the government in this country has assumed the responsibility for the security, welfare, and prosperity of our people is a measure of the extent to which socialism has developed here in this land of ours.”

People Men Country Government Action America Justice Common Responsibility Creative Land Security Design Areas Originals Prosperity Socialism Welfare Destructive Productive Departed

Author:Leonard Read

“Government planning not only fails; it tends to produce outcomes that are the opposite of what its proponents say that they favor. The only stable and productive social system is one that embraces human liberty in its totality, and defends the market economy, private property, sound money, and peaceful international relations, while opposing government intervention as economically and socially destructive.”

“Continued dependence on relief inducers a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber.”

Spiritual Moral Relief Destructive Dependence Fiber Disintegration

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Far too many businesses have been all too eager to lobby for maintaining and increasing subsidies and mandates paid by taxpayers and consumers. This growing partnership between business and government is a destructive force, undermining not just our economy and our political system, but the very foundations of culture.”

Has Beens Government Political Culture Force Economy Growing Paid Foundation Consumers Destructive Partnership Maintaining Taxpayers Political Systems Mandates Subsidies Undermining

Author:Charles Koch

“A discussion becomes destructive when it begins to generate more heat than light.”

Light Discussion Heat Destructive

Author:M. Scott Peck

“Constructive change offers the best method for avoiding destructive change.”

Offers Method Destructive Avoiding Constructive

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“It is significant that the socialist mentality is usually also an atheistic mentality, where atheism is understood not so much as the disbelief in God as the hatred of God˜an attitude as precarious logically as it has been destructive in practice. There is an important sense in which religion as traditionally understood reconciles humanity to imperfection and to failure. Since the socialist sets out to abolish failure, traditional religion is worse than _de trop_: it is an impediment to perfection.”

“Competition is overrated. In practice it is quite destructive and should be avoided wherever possible. Much better than fighting for scraps in existing markets is to create and own new ones.”

Should Fighting Practice Competition Destructive Avoided Scrap Overrated

Author:Peter Thiel

“How to overcome destructive criticism? Just love a little more. That's all.”

Littles Criticism Overcoming Destructive Destructive Criticism

Author:Sri Chinmoy

“Individual freedom and drug laws contradict each other. In a genuinely free society, people are free to ingest whatever they want to ingest, no matter how harmful or destructive. What people ingest is none of the government's business. If drug users or drug addicts wish to get help, a free society provides the means to do so.”

People Ifs Want Mean Matter Helping Government Law Individual Wish Drug Destructive Users Addict Free Society Drug Addict Individual Freedom Drug Laws

Author:Jacob G. Hornberger

“Wisdom and Love must balance mutually. Wisdom without Love it's a destructive element. Love without Wisdom can leads us to error: love is law, but conscious love.”

Law Love Is Balance Elements Conscious And Love Errors Destructive Without Love

Author:Samael Aun Weor

“Self pity is the worst possible emotion anyone can have. And the most destructive. It is, to slightly paraphrase what Wilde said about hatred, and I think actually hatred's a subset of self pity and not the other way around - 'It destroys everything around it, except itself.'”

Thinking Way Said Self Emotion Worst Hatred Pity Destructive Self Pity Wilde Paraphrase

Author:Stephen Fry

“Inflation is not a benign element in the economy's operation. It is, as it has always been, the most dangerous and destructive form of taxation.”

Form Economy Dangerous Elements Operations Destructive Taxation Inflation Benign

Author:Robert Higgs

“Hatred is the most destructive force on earth. It does the most damage to those who harbor it.”

Doe Earth Force Hatred Damage Destructive Harbors

Book:Stairway to Success: The Complete Blueprint for Personal and Professional Achievement

Source: Stairway to Success: The Complete Blueprint for Personal and Professional Achievement

“Until we become the architects of a society that is truly free and ecological, it will always seem that when the human brain is not adaptive, it is more often destructive than creative.”

Humans Seems Brain Creative Destructive Architect Ecological Human Brain Adaptive

Author:Murray Bookchin

“There is knowledge of God and the spiritual nature of man, as well as other types of reality..., that are not reducible to the world dealt with by the so-called "natural" sciences. The idea that knowledge - and, of course, reality - is limited to that world is the single most destructive idea on the stage of life today.”

Men World Wells Ideas Reality Today Spiritual Courses Natural Stage Type Destructive Nature Of Man Natural Science Knowledge Of God Stages Of Life Spiritual Nature

Author:Dallas Willard

“One of the main destructive forces within our family has been these runaway egos. I think if you look at any show business family, that struggle exists.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Has Beens Shows Force Struggle Ego Our Family Destructive Show Business Runaway Business Family

Author:Rufus Wainwright

“Your moment of clarity comes when you face your fears. Sobriety gave me back me - my life. Self-medication kills you slowly. You can never get a handle on that. It's a highly destructive force that has to be dealt with on a spiritual level as much as a physical one.”

Self Moments Faces Spiritual Force Levels Handle Clarity Destructive Medication Sobriety Your Mom Face Your Fears Moments Of Clarity

Author:Chaka Khan

“In an all-out nuclear war, more destructive power than in all of World War II would be unleashed every second during the long afternoon it would take for all the missiles and bombs to fall. A World War II every second-more people killed in the first few hours than all the wars of history put together. The survivors, if any, would live in despair amid the poisoned ruins of a civilization that had committed suicide.”

Source: Jimmy Carter

“Nazi Germany was so destructive to Judaism not only for the loss of life, but because many who survived began to see the practice of Judaism as somewhat of a health hazard.”

Loss Practice Germany Destructive Survived Nazi Judaism Hazards Nazi Germany

Author:Jon Stewart

“Reviews are destructive by their very nature.”

Destructive Reviews

Author:John Malkovich

“I'd been used to this idea of destructive performance art instead of a slick, good-sounding show. So, I became frustrated as I felt I'd been doing the shows wrong. That sucked.”

Art Ideas Shows Used Felt Performances Destructive Frustrated Slick Performance Art

Author:Erika M. Anderson

“Is [Obama] the worst president ever? He's certainly the most destructive president we've had in terms of tearing apart this country and all of the freedoms that we have fought for.”

Country President Term Worst Destructive Tearing Apart

Author:Kimberly Guilfoyle

“Digital [photography] has sped up the process to a point that it's a bit self-destructive. It is like driving by a new neighborhood without stopping for a walk. Special discoveries need time.”

Needs Self Bits Process Walks Special Photography Discovery Driving Destructive Digital Neighborhood Stopping Self Destructive Time Of Need Sped Digital Photography

Author:Mona Kuhn

“The ACLU is an organization with a long and distinguished history of fighting to protect freedom of speech. On the other hand, in recent years, it has carried its mandate to ever more eccentric and often highly destructive lengths. While is may have been perfectly honorable for Dukakis to belong to the ACLU, it was equally legitimate for Bush to attack him for it. And with what enormous relish he did the job!”

Years May Long Has Beens Hands Jobs Fighting Protect Speech Organization Enormous Destructive Length Freedom Of Speech Honorable Distinguished Eccentric Relish Mandates

Author:Newt Gingrich

“Love: I recognize the emotion for what it is, an irrational self-destructive impulse, which is disguised as joy.”

Self Joy Emotion Impulse Destructive Irrational Sanctuary Self Destructive

Author:Nikola Tesla

“Tell me what you are for, and I will show you what is going to expand in a positive way. Tell me what you are against, and I can show you what is going to expand in a destructive way.”

Way I Can Shows Destructive

Book:Everyday Wisdom

Source: Everyday Wisdom

“Somehow don't be bored, but if you must, use it in action. Use its destructive potential.”

Ifs Use Action Bored Destructive

Author:Richard Diebenkorn

“Violence is always an effort toward greater freedom or love. Openness is freedom and love. Even the most violent or self-destructive emotions are rooted in the heart's need for openness, to be free, to give and receive love.”

Needs Giving Heart Self Effort Emotion Greater Violence And Love Violent Destructive Openness Rooted Self Destructive Giving And Receiving Love And Freedom

Book:Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide to Life and Death and Love and Sex

Source: Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide to Life and Death and Love and Sex

“A man with a weak Masculine is especially prone to despise and fear these qualities and may attempt to suppress the more destructive elements of the Feminine force in his partner.”

Men May Force Quality Elements Weak Partners Destructive Feminine Despise Masculine

Author:David Deida

“Today we are going to talk about words. You know, words are containers for power. They carry creative or destructive power. They carry positive or negative power. We can choose our words and we should do it carefully.”

Knows Should Today Creative Negative Destructive Our Words Containers Destructive Power

Author:Joyce Meyer

“I think the notion of success is fairly destructive. You can see elements of this surrounding any band becoming too popular. On the other hand, survival means you are doing fine.”

Thinking Mean Hands Fine Becoming Band Elements Survival Notion Destructive

Author:Howe Gelb

“Worker ownership within a state capitalist, semi-market system is better than private ownership but it has inherent problems. Markets have well-known inherent inefficiencies. They're very destructive.”

Wells States Problem Known Workers Destructive Capitalist Inherent Ownership Well Known Inefficiency

Author:Noam Chomsky

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