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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that the door is closing and that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

~ Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov American Society Funding Library Read Self Destruction United States

But if you write a version of Ragnarok in the twenty-first century, it is haunted by the imagining of a different end of things. We are a species of animal which is bringing about the end of the world we were born into. Not out of evil or malice, or not mainly, but because of a lopsided mixture of extraordinary cleverness, extraordinary greed, extraordinary proliferation of our own kind, and a biologically built-in short-sightedness.

~ A.s. Byatt

A.s. Byatt Apocalypse End Of The World Environmental Catastrophe Gods Loki Myth Mythology Norse Mythology Ragnarok Self Destruction

Freeways flickering; cell phones chiming a tuneWe're riding to Utopia; road map says we'll be arriving soonCaptains of the old order clinging to the reinsAssuring us these aches inside are only growing painsBut it's a long road out of Eden(...)Behold the bitten apple, the power of the toolsBut all the knowledge in the world is of no use to foolsAnd it's a long road out of Eden

~ Eagles

Eagles Civilization Eden Materialism Self Destruction Utopia

Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us.

~ Donna Tartt

Donna Tartt Self Destruction Want Wanting

When we don’t put the brakes on our self-absorption, we have nothing stopping us from total self-destruction. We become the fruits of our actions.

~ Zeena Schreck

Zeena Schreck Beatdom Egocentricity Hubris Karma Karmic Effects Self Absorption Self Destruction Selfishness Zeena Schreck

This is how women self-sabotage and self-destruct. Unless we have constant witnesses to our hard work, we are convinced we pull off every day of our lives through smoke and mirrors. (27)

~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

Sarah Ban Breathnach Accomplishments Appreciation Self Destruction Self Sabotage

The poor manufacture the engines of their own destruction, but it's the rich who sell them.

~ Sebastian Japrisot

Sebastian Japrisot Poor Rich Self Destruction War

There is something deeply attractive, at least to quite a lot of people, about squalor, misery, and vice. They are regarded as more authentic, and certainly more exciting, than cleanliness, happiness, and virtue.

~ Theodore Dalrymple

Theodore Dalrymple Authenticity Ennui Eventful Happiness Lifestyle Misery Raison D Être Resignation Self Destruction Vice

I've always turned my anger inwards towards self-destruction.

~ Mackenzie Phillips

Mackenzie Phillips Always Self Destruction
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