What is "self-destruction"

Usage examples of "self-destruction".

I cannot deprive them of that small particle of comfort, for, were it not for it, they would soon feel hatred for themselves, and self-hatred often leads to the fatal idea of self-destruction.

Where the continuities between the earlier and later fiction stand out most clearly is in Gaddis's previous depictions of artists and writerscharacters who, through their appetite for destruction and self-destruction, fail on their own terms.

After all, society can absorb a little violence, but for the destabilised individual it means ultimate self-destruction.

All the other social groups—workers, farmers, professional men, scientists, soldiers—exist under dictatorships, even though they exist in chains, in terror, in misery, and in progressive self-destruction.

But such a society can achieve nothing save the rule of brute force and a state of progressive self-destruction.

And when we grew too enervated to practice active self-destruction, we sank into clinical depression, as Arlie was doing now.

Counter-missiles streamed to meet them, Dragon’s Teeth spawned, targets proliferated, Dazzlers flared, counter-missile and MDM impeller wedges vanished in mutual self-destruction.

It may be they were not deceived by human judgment, but prompted by divine wisdom, to their act of self-destruction.

There is something special about our time—not just the temporal chauvinism that those who reside in any epoch doubtless feel, but something, as outlined above, clearly unique and strictly relevant to our species' future chances: This is the first time that (a) our exponentiating technology has reached the precipice of self-destruction, but also the first time that (b) we can postpone or avoid destruction by going somewhere else, somewhere off the Earth.

Even given a new opportunity to engage in imperialism, it ignored that option—and turned its aggressive instincts inward, upon itself, in the form of factionalization, feuding and quite often self-destruction.

Men determined on death prefer it at the hands of others, for the reason that the soul which Plato giveth us is rebellious at the thought of self-destruction.

Once intelligent beings achieve technology and the capacity for self-destruction of their species, the selective advantage of intelligence becomes more uncertain .

The booze, the pills, the self-degradation had followed in a descending spiral of self-destruction that had led her to that pier—and to Ramsey.

The Progenitors had struck out for the stars in order to escape the cycle of self-destruction the rest of humanity had seemed caught in.

He supposed that the admiral would check the kid out on them, too, and decided that the navy had gone to hell in a handbasket if it would certify the spacemad on a self-destruction course.