Destructiveness Quotes

Change can take place only when liberal and radical pressures are both strong. Intelligent liberals have always recognized the debt they owe to radicals, whose existence permits liberals to push further than they would otherwise have dared, all the while posing as compromisers and mediators. Radicals, however, have been somewhat less sensible of their debt to liberals, partly because of the rather single-minded discipline radicals are almost forced to maintain, plagued as they always are by liberal backsliding and timidity on the one hand and various forms of self-destructiveness and romantic posing on the other.... Liberal reforms and radical change. - Philip Slater

But due to the destructiveness of the explosion, we can't precisely identify what happened. - Dave Duncan

Although many machines have been disinfected, we're certainly not out of the woods yet. Many machines may still be infected without their owner's knowledge. The amount of media attention regarding the destructiveness and rapid propagation of the worm are accelerating action to block and remove the virus. - Dmitri Alperovitch