Definition of Destructive

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Destructive

Causing destruction; tending to bring about ruin, death, or devastation; ruinous; fatal; productive of serious evil; mischievous; pernicious; -- often with of or to; as, intemperance is destructive of health; evil examples are destructive to the morals of youth.

One who destroys; a radical reformer; a destructionist.

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Destructive Quotations

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
Albert Einstein

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
Theodore Roosevelt

What you don't do can be a destructive force.
Eleanor Roosevelt

I 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.
Stephen Hawking

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

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
Margaret Mead

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
Alan Watts

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

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.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Destructive Translations

destructive in Latin is perniciosus

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