Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know you have it.
View quotes by Ralph EllisonNever feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
View quotes by Millicent FenwickSelf-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.
View quotes by John GardnerAmerica's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly
self-destructive.
View quotes by John GardnerIt can be absurd, cantankerous,
self-destructive and pompous, but it is never crass [on Yorkshire cricket]
View quotes by Peter RoebuckThe ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts - the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria - are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.
View quotes by Edward DahlbergCompassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self.
View quotes by Arnold ToynbeeThe system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
View quotes by E F SchumacherI think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
View quotes by Stephen HawkingHow could such a destructive man [referring to Bush] be so popular with the American people?... Not only is he poisoning our air and water - he's poisoning our political system as well.
View quotes by Barbra StreisandInstead of having a set of policies that are equipping people for the globalization of the economy, we have policies that are accelerating the most destructive trends of the global economy.
View quotes by Barack ObamaIt is worth it to me to know I have succeeded based on my abilities and not on my looks or any 'connections.' I've tried not to embody destructive female images in my work.
View quotes by Ally SheedyOrder without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
View quotes by Theodore RooseveltNothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.
View quotes by Stephen Jay GouldFor me, campaigning and good business is also about putting forward solutions, not just opposing destructive practices or human rights abuses.
View quotes by Anita RoddickEvery man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
View quotes by Martin Luther King JrNothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature!
View quotes by Bernard FontenelleAs man; false man, smiling destructive man
View quotes by Nathaniel LeeAmong the only relics left by the ravages of two destructive conflagrations in Portland is one of these albums, in which this early friend thus autographs his genial
View quotes by John Albion AndrewThe creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.
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