#destructive

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision. ↗

— Salvador Dali

#destroys #destructive #limiting #only #our

I've been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I've never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I'm not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it's got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive. ↗

— Alan Greenspan

#becoming #been #between #comes #destructive

As Luxenberg's work has only recently been published we must await its scholarly assessment before we can pass any judgements. But if his analysis is correct then suicide bombers, or rather prospective martyrs, would do well to abandon their culture of death, and instead concentrate on getting laid 72 times in this world, unless of course they would really prefer chilled or white raisins, according to their taste, in the next. ↗

— Ibn Warraq

#criticism-of-the-koran #death #destructive-cult #houris #islam

Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity. ↗

— Gary Ryan Blair

#course #destructive #even #failure #inaction

I find all that slightly destructive but mad love alluring. ↗

— Sienna Miller

#destructive #find #i #love #mad

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. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#aware #because #destructive #environment #fragile

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#equally #liberty #order #without

Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after. ↗

— Alan Watts

#based #destroy #destructive #far #more

No Blame: The most liberating and empowering day of my life was the day I freed myself from my own self-destructive nonsense. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#empowering #liberating #nonsense #self-destructive #success

I know what it is to want something that could destroy you. ↗

— Nenia Campbell

#want #wanting #behavior