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• Our destruction of nature is not just bad stewardship, or stupid economics, or a betrayal of family responsibility; it is the most horrid blasphemy. It is flinging God's gifts into His face, as if they were of no worth beyond that assigned to them by our destruction of them.

  Wendell Berry

  Betrayal, Stupid, Responsibility

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.308, Counterpoint

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• Can we actually suppose that we are wasting, polluting, and making ugly this beautiful land for the sake of patriotism and the love of God? Perhaps some of us would like to think so, but in fact this destruction is taking place because we have allowed ourselves to believe, and to live, a mated pair of economic lies: that nothing has a value that is not assigned to it by the market; and that the economic life of our communities can safely be handed over to the great corporations.

  Wendell Berry

  Beautiful, Lying, Believe

  Wendell Berry, Daniel Kemmis, Courtney White (2006). “The Way of Ignorance: And Other Essays”, p.23, Counterpoint Press

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• This generation may either be the last to exist in any semblance of a civilised world or that it will be the first to have the vision, the bearing and the greatness to say, 'I will have nothing to do with this destruction of life, I will play no part in this devastation of the land, I am determined to live and work for peaceful construction for I am morally responsible for the world of today and the generations of tomorrow.'

  Richard St. Barbe Baker

  Life, Greatness, Land

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• J.R.R.Tolkien has confessed that about a third of the way through The Fellowship of the Ring, some ruffian named Strider confronted the hobbits in an inn, and Tolkien was in despair. He didn't know who Strider was, where the book was going, or what to write next. Strider turns out to be no lesser person than Aragorn, the unrecognized and uncrowned king of all the forces of good, whose restoration to rule is, along with the destruction of the evil ring, the engine that moves the plot of the whole massive trilogy, The Lord of the Rings.

  Ansen Dibell

  Kings, Moving, Book

  Ansen Dibell (1988). “Plot”, Writers Digest Books

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• We have to create; it is the only thing louder than destruction.

  Andrea Gibson

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• No amount of outer technology, no amount of computers and biotechnology and nanotechnology is going to stop the continuation of warfare and racism and environmental destruction. What's called for on the Earth at this time is really a change of heart ... the question is really not the future of humanity, but the presence of eternity.

  Jack Kornfield

  Heart, Technology, Racism

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• All creative effort - including the making of an omelet - is preceded by destruction.

  Yi-Fu Tuan

  Creativity, Effort, Creative

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• I think it is no exaggeration to say we are on the cusp of the further perfection of extreme evil, an evil whose possibility spreads well beyond that which weapons of mass destruction bequeathed to the nation-states, on to a surprising and terrible empowerment of extreme individuals.

  Bill Joy

  Thinking, Mass Destruction, Evil

  "Be very afraid of the future", www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2000.

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• An organic farmer is the best peacemaker today, because there is more violence, more death, more destruction, more wars, through a violent industrial agricultural system. And to shift away from that into an agriculture of peace is what organic farming is doing.

  Vandana Shiva

  War, Agriculture, Today

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• Turn off your televisions. Ignore the Newt-Mitt-Rick- Barack reality show. It is as relevant to your life as the gossip on “Jersey Shore.” The real debate, the debate raised by the Occupy movement about inequality, corporate malfeasance, the destruction of the ecosystem, and the security and surveillance state, is the only debate that matters.

  Chris Hedges

  Real, Ecosystems, Surveillance State

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• The hope that fuels the pursuit of endless economic growth - that billions of consumers in India & China will one day enjoy the lifestyles of Europeans and Americans - is as absurd & dangerous a fantasy as anything dreamt up by Al-Qaeda. It condemns the global environment to early destruction & looks set to create reservoirs of nihilistic rage & disappointment among hundreds of millions of have-nots - the bitter outcome of the universal triumph of Western Modernity, which turns the revenge of the East into something darkly ambiguous, and all its victories truly Pyrrhic.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Disappointment, Revenge, Growth

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• The Kennedy Administration's public pronouncements on the matter suggested that the presence of Soviet nuclear missiles in Castro's Cuba would represent an unacceptable strategic threat to the United States. . . . This urgent transformation of Cuba into an important strategic base - by the presence of these large, long-range, and clearly offensive weapons of sudden mass-destruction - constitutes an explicit threat to the peace and security of all the Americas. . . .

  John F. Kennedy

  Mass Destruction, America, Long

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• Evil company is always to be shunned; because it leads to lust and anger, illusion, forgetfulness of the goal, destruction of the will (lack of perseverance), and destruction of everything. (Narada Bhakti Sutra)

  Swami Vivekananda

  Perseverance, Anger, Evil

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• Many problems that confront us today are created by man, whether they are violent conflicts, destruction of the environment, poverty or hunger. These problems can be resolved thanks to human efforts by understanding that we are brother and sister and by developing this sense of closeness. We must cultivate a universal responsibility toward each other and extend it to the planet that we have to share.

  Dalai Lama

  Brother, Responsibility, Men

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• Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.

  Napoleon Hill

  Ambition, Doe, Way

  Napoleon Hill, Steve Berges (2010). “Think and Grow Rich: Collector's Edition”, p.185, American Liberty Press

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• We all moan and groan about the loss of the quality of life through the destruction of our ecology, and yet every one of us, in our own little comfortable ways, contributes daily to that destruction. It's time now to awaken in each one of us the respect and attention our beloved Mother deserves.

  Ed Asner

  Mother, Loss, Quality

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• Where destruction is the motive, unity is dangerous.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Unity, Dangerous, Motive

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• Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes, decays into plutocracy, and is captured by the shoemaker whom the mercenaries and millionaires make into a king. The people invent their oppressors, and the oppressors serve the function for which they are invented.

  Mark Twain

  Kings, Civilization, People

  Mark Twain (1940). “Mark Twain in eruption: hitherto unpublished pages about men and events”, Harper & Brothers

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• There's a dance of mutual destruction going on between the media and politicians.

  Carmen Lawrence

  Communication, Media, Politician

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• The vulnerability of precious things is beautiful because vulnerability is a mark of existence. The destruction of Troy. The fall of the petals from fruit trees in blossom. To know that what is most precious is not rooted in existence - that is beautiful.

  Simone Weil

  Beautiful, Fall, Tree

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.108, Psychology Press

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• The difference between destruction of the immune system and stimulation of the immune system is an interpretation.

  Deepak Chopra

  Differences, Interpretation, Stimulation

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• We are addicted to money and our obsession with it is leading to the destruction of our planet.

  Mark Boyle

  Obsession, Planets, Our Planet

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• The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and from all modern wars in the utter ruthlessness with which it was fought.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Agency, Ruthlessness

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.199, Da Capo Press

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• Socialism of any type leads to a total destruction of the human spirit...

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Spirit, Socialism, Type

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Commencement address at Harvard University, June 7, 1978.

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• The destruction of the earth’s environment is the human rights challenge of our time.

  Desmond Tutu

  Rights, Challenges, Earth

  "Facing One of the Greatest Human Rights Challenges of Our Time" by Jackie Jenkins-Scott, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 10, 2014.

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