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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. ↗

— Helen Garner

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It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

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Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism. ↗

— Audre Lorde

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Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another. ↗

— Anne Sullivan Macy

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

— Shirley Manson

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Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive. ↗

— Margaret Mead

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I know I have a very self-destructive tendency since my mother died, I have got to be honest. ↗

— George Michael

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I am convinced that policies meant to reduce alleged carbon dioxide-induced global warming will be destructive. ↗

— Christopher Monckton

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We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel. ↗

— Frederica Montseny

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But we moderns are impatient and destructive. ↗

— John C. Ransom

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