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«Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends.»
Author: Albert Bandura
| About:
Morality
| Keywords:
acceptable, destructive, disengagement, justification, personally, portray, portrayed, portraying, portrays, socially, The Service
«Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive»
«Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.»
Author: John W. Gardner
(Secretary, Writer)
| About:
Pity
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«Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.»
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
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«The way to overcome negative thoughts and destructive emotions is to develop opposing, positive emotions that are stronger and more powerful.»
«Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
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«Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.»
Author: Alan Watts
(Interpreter, Thinker, Writer)
| About:
Technology
| Keywords:
destructive, one and the same, technology
«Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
charming, consummate, consummated, consummating, deceptive, describe, destructive, novel
«Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
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«Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.»
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