Bhagavad Gita · Chapter 16: The Divine and the Demonic Natures

Bhagavad Gita 16.9

etāṃ dṛṣṭimavaṣṭabhya naṣṭātmāno'lpabuddhayaḥ | prabhavantyugrakarmāṇaḥ kṣayāya jagato'hitāḥ ||

Holding to this view, these lost souls of small understanding and cruel deeds rise up as enemies of the world, for its destruction.

Modern context

Holding to that view, such people become enemies of the world, bent on its destruction. Ideas have consequences. A view of life that says nothing matters except one's own desire, carried far enough, leads to cruelty. History has many examples of people who began with cynicism and ended with violence. The verse warns that how we see the world shapes how we treat it.