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Every seemingly arbitrary destructive action is a reaction of the organism to the frustration of a gratification of a vital need, especially of a sexual need.
The moral consequences of totalitarian propaganda...are destructive of all morals because they undermind one of the foundations of all morals: the sense of and respect for truth.
A man’s mind is hidden in his writings: criticism brings it to light.
I am a Maoist sympathiser. I'm not a Maoist ideologue, because the communist movements in history have been just as destructive as capitalism.
If I have one criticism of the other late-night shows, it's that they're almost entirely scripted.
You take the constructive criticism, because without the fans you would have no show.
We were meant to grow. When we don't grow, we seek diversions--some harmless (if unproductive), others destructive--to fill the emptiness.
Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical.
There is nothing more American than brutal violence. The country was built on it, revels in it and shows every evidence of clinging to it with the crazed, destructive strength of an obsessive lover.
A Romantic ideology that predates rock glorifies the self-destructive artist as someone who's too honest and delicate for this world... It's not an easy job, and its stresses can take their toll.
Love is always creative, fear always destructive.
If I can understand criticism, I take it very seriously. But it's a process; it doesn't happen overnight.
The most self-destructive thought that any person can have is thinking that he or she is not in total control of his or her life. That’s when, ‘Why me?’ becomes a theme song.
What I was concerned about when I wrote the 'Downward Spiral' record was being a self-centred destructive force. The point was tearing down everything in a search for something else.
I'm not as self-destructive as Dylan Thomas, but I've certainly been around that behavior enough to have found it a release. The thing that I really enjoyed was being able to play misery.
No politician can expect to escape criticism for a controversial decision and we have to be robust in justifying what we do.
The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.
We will glorify war-the world's only hygiene, milliterism, patriotism , the destructive gesture of freedom-bringers, beautiful ideas worth dying for, and scorn for woman
The creative instincts, the love force must be nourished with every beat of our hearts until they overbalance the destructive instincts.
The irony of love is that it guarantees some degree of anger, fear and criticism.
Evil's just destructive? Then storms are evil, if it's that simple. And we have fire, and there there's hail. Underwriters lump it all under 'Acts of God.
Even cynical, selfish people will realize, one way or the other, that it's not in their self-interest to act in self-destructive ways.
I tried not to let all the criticism affect me, but it obviously does not go unnoticed.
If you have expectations as a club, then coping with criticism is part of your job.
Strict rules of evidence would destroy psychoanalysis and literary criticism.
I am not worried about criticism. In fact, it helps one perform better.
For me, acting was a way of taking destructive energy and doing something productive with it, and in that way it was quite a life saver.
We can be so hard on ourselves. And other people can, too - there's so much criticism out there!
Scientific criticism has no nobler task than to shatter false beliefs.
I only write about stuff that’s happened to me.. stuff I can’t get past personally. Luckily, I'm quite self-destructive.
Praise without merit is more harmful than unearned criticism.
To reduce destructive emotions we need to strengthen constructive emotions. For example, to counter anger we cultivate love and compassion.
One of the most durable and destructive legacies of discrimination is the way we've internalized a sense of limitation; how so many in our community have come to expect so little from the world and from themselves.
Conscious choice is creative. Unconscious choice is destructive. That is how we end up living other people's lives.
Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly.
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.
We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.
There are two kinds of hecklers: the destructive and constructive hecklers.
Under crowded conditions the friendly social interactions between members of a group become reduced, and the destructive and aggressive patterns show a marked rise in frequency and intensity.
Conservatives should single-mindedly privilege marriage as the solution to poverty and the best path for raising successful children, and not rationalize the real of destructive cultural change.
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.
.. that a rule, which, in speculation, may seem the most advantageous to society, may yet be found, in practice, totally pernicious and destructive.
Alcohol is a pervasive fact of life, but an extraordinary fact-pleasurable and destructive, anathematized and adulated, and deeply ambiguous ... the genie in the bottle.
If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.
Self-criticism expands the opportunities for discourse and eliminates the need for an adversary.
I love film criticism as an art. I think it's a very important thing.
The way to overcome negative thoughts and destructive emotions is to develop opposing, positive emotions that are stronger and more powerful.
Wars, however frequent and destructive they may be, have never been able to kill entirely the intellectual and moral sense which raises man above the beast.
One of the most destructive things that's happening in modern society is that we are losing our sense of the bonds that bind people together - which can lead to nightmares of social collapse.
Without criticism and reliable and intelligent reporting, the government cannot govern.
If you want a commercial success - it's the confusion of commerce with art. A successful play is not considered to be the best written. It is the one that sells the most tickets. Those standards are destructive [to theatre].
I was so obsessed and consumed with my grievances that I could not get away from myself and think things out in the light. I was in the grip of that blinding, destructive, terrible thing -- righteous indignation.
I think a human animal is far more wild and unpredictable and dangerous and destructive than any other animal.
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.
Philanthropic leaders genially speak of complementing government, not competing with it as if monopoly were good and competition destructive-thus unwittingly conspiring against the public interest.
We're all generous, but with different things, like time, money, talent - criticism.
There's no praise for scoring a fight right, just criticism for one you get wrong.
I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing so little to be reached as with criticism.
Fear is the destructive energy in man. It withers the mind, it distorts thought, it leads to all kinds of extraordinarily clever and subtle theories, absurd superstitions, dogmas, and beliefs.
