Best Destructive Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“My first relationship at 15 made me really, really mature because it was so destructive and intense. We were inseparable for three years and I was completely and utterly besotted. But then it all fell apart and it took me a long time to get over it.”

“I've become less tolerant as I've got older, but I put that down to realising there are people out there who actually enjoy being destructive, and that those people will never change.”

“The destructive impact of employment tribunal fees, which were introduced in 2013, is by now well known.”

“Modern terrorism is too destructive to be tolerated, much less supported.”

“You cannot have peaceful means - peaceful means will have to be used to bring about peaceful ends. If you use destructive means, you're going to bring about destructive ends.”

“Passion is very destructive.”

“The media has bought into the whole social revolution, the Kinsey ideas, and has been completely taken over by the feminists. And the feminists, I think, are the most destructive elements in our society.”

“A majority of Americans want redemption for racism - for our terrible, destructive racist past - and so see a vote for Obama as redemptive.”

“There is something familial about punk. There is something positive. Even though some punk is destructive, nihilistic, explosive.”

“Really, the ocean itself - that's really the thing that we're up against, the most destructive environment on the planet.”

“Mania is the most destructive of the forces. Everybody around you will tell you you're in trouble, and you can't hear what they are saying.”

“I used to be a light-heavyweight, and I'm much faster than cruiserweight. That's the reason I didn't struggle with David Haye's speed, and David Haye is much quicker than Oleksandr Usyk with one punch and much, much, more destructive with the way he hits.”

“I don't have anyone curbing my instincts, doing anything destructive to my self opinion.”

“I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.”

“I'm trying to find a way to eat up time without being destructive, 'cause that's my go-to, it seems.”

“The anti-elitist values in America, I think, are very destructive to education.”

“In this way, some film schools can be destructive.”

“We are very fortunate to live in this country, but at the same time, the reason the forces are so much more destructive here is because they are faceless.”

“The desire to be right can be very destructive in relationships.”

“I am not destructive. I cannot do something for my own pleasure that hurts someone else.”

“I'm working on my relationship with my mother and father, but my upbringing has been very destructive.”

“The nuclear family doesn't work. It's very destructive; it grew out of selfishness.”

“I've made four films about the destructive nature of relationships, of secrets and lies, and I think I'm no longer interested in that subject - which is a wonderful relief.”

“The Internet has become a hate-filled town square with no limits put on destructive verbal behavior.”

“I was always performing, doing silly voices. The teachers realized I could go one of two ways: be creative or destructive.”

“The discussion about energy options tends to be an intensely emotional, polarised, mistrustful, and destructive one. Every option is strongly opposed: the public seem to be anti-wind, anti-coal, anti-waste-to-energy, anti-tidal-barrages, anti-carbon-tax, and anti-nuclear.”

“I played on teams with 24 guys pulling the rope one way and one guy pulling the other. I've seen how destructive it can be. I tell them, 'If 13 of you are insanely successful and one fails, we all lose.'”

“I still have highs and lows, just like any other person. What's missing is the lack of control over the super highs, which became destructive, and the super lows, which are immediately destructive.”

“There is nothing wrong with wanting pay for work, or seeking to maximize one's income, as long as one does not use means that are destructive.”

“It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth.”

“I don't see 'lines of force' as being destructive, except to the extent that they are exclusively traceable through observance of the path of distorted material left in their wake.”

“Globalization is very destructive to our species.”

“Women can be as destructive, possessive and prone to rage as men, it turns out: but discovering that is what terrifies them, while exhilarating women.”

“Statues are one of the ways I try to test the traditions of European culture against the most modern destructive forces. I often make a point of seeking them out and have used them as mouthpieces in my film poetry, as with Heinrich Heine in 'The Gaze of the Gorgon.'”

“I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.”

“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.”

“As we've seen over the course of the Trump administration's tenure, words can prove just as destructive as laws.”

“Divorce is one of the most destructive, emotionally traumatic experiences a human being can go through, no matter if you're the instigator or the recipient. It's hard, and it hurts, and it takes a long time to feel normal again.”

“I don't think about the reader when I'm writing, but I do when I'm editing, of course. For instance, I self-consciously didn't want to do anything to increase the divide between mothers and nonmothers - I think that divide is so horrible and destructive and unnecessary.”

“I've always had this impulse to be destructive.”

“Hate is a strong word. It's also very destructive, so no - I don't hate Mark Zuckerberg.”

“When you have a situation that's destructive, when there's tremendous inhumanity everywhere, you see how humanity survives in all of its different permutations.”

“There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.”

“I think the most destructive thing is fear: when people don't want to say what they think.”

“The way I do things is very violent, very destructive and in-your-face.”

“Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.”

“Office romances are few, short, and not usually destructive.”

“Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?”

“Now, I'm not onboard with the argument that jokes are destructive to humanity. There are bigger issues, and I do not necessarily subscribe to the belief that jokes perpetuate violence and racism. They lampoon those things most of the time. But I could be wrong about that. I'm not a sociologist or an expert.”

“A guy who's actually self destructive is quite fun to play.”

“I don't find any kind of tension very productive, I find it destructive, actually.”

“The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.”

“The greater jihad is proclaiming war on our ego's destructive and negative emotions and thoughts... which prevent us from attaining perfection.”

“There's this sort of male energy that we have that can seem very destructive. But it doesn't have to be. It actually can be a very positive force.”

“We unavoidably stand in so many unholy places and are subjected to so much that is vulgar, profane, and destructive of the Spirit of the Lord that I encourage our Saints all over the world, wherever possible, to strive to stand more often in holy places.”

“There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.”

“'The Hunger Games' takes place in Panem, a country which is part of America. It's post-apocalyptic. There's been a global war. The Panem country is what remains of this hugely destructive war.”

“The remarkable thing about the Chinese is that they've operated differently than the Russians, the Iranians, and the North Koreans. By and large, they have not done destructive hacks.”

“But we moderns are impatient and destructive.”

“We have equated a cancer diagnosis to 'death,' but we look at diabetes as 'something that you get when you get older.' But look at diabetes - it's the leading cause of limb amputation, heart disease, kidney failure. Many people don't equate diabetes with these other destructive things. I didn't equate it to those until I started reading about it.”

“The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical.”

“The more settled I've become, the more problematic my characters have become. There was a period when I wrote sensitive and gentle songs and these came at a time when life was at its most destructive. I think you write about what you need, on some level.”

“For eons, humans have struggled to find less destructive ways of living together.”

“Some of these love stories can be destructive as examples of what it means to really love. To think that someone is your one and only, that you're fated to be with this person, is a really powerful, sexy fantasy - but it is a fantasy, at least in part.”

“We live in a culture of destructive transparency.”

“We produce destructive people by the way we are treating them in childhood.”

“The attitude of 'every nation unto itself' is a destructive one for the future of Israel.”

“I find flawed characters much more interesting than perfect ones and enjoy the challenge of making readers root for them in spite of their unsympathetic path and destructive choices.”

“In a fragile environment, we need to be aware of ourselves as members of a uniquely powerful species living among other species who are quite as interesting as we are but vulnerable to us because we are cleverer in more destructive ways.”

“The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.”

“I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.”

“Rather than being a 'perversion' of Islam, it is truer to say that the version of Islam espoused by ISIS, while undoubtedly the worst possible interpretation of Islam, and for Muslims and non-Muslims everywhere obviously the most destructive version of Islam, is nevertheless a plausible interpretation of Islam.”

“Fear is destructive and dangerous.”

“I think that the destructive element is too much neglected in art.”

“Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.”

“What you don't do can be a destructive force.”

“When we are “time traveling”, we may trip over problems from the past which distort our memory. If we are weary of dealing with lost causes or lame ducks in our history, we have to make up our mind and give up destructive thinking patterns. At that juncture, time has come to go back to the future. ( “A glimpse of the future" )”