destructiveness
Noun
Meaning
The quality of destroying or ruining.
The faculty supposed to impel to the commission of acts of destruction; propensity to destroy.
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Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.
The fact that no limits exist to the destructiveness of this weapon makes its very existence and the knowledge of its construction a danger to humanity as a whole. It is necessarily an evil thing considered in any light.
Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.
Destructiveness is the outcome of an unlived life.
The more the drive toward life is thwarted, the stronger is the drive toward destruction; the more life is realized, the less is the strength of destructiveness. Destructiveness is the outcome of unlived life.
I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.