Destruction Quotes - Page 19

• The surest source of destruction to men is to obey themselves.

  John Calvin

  Men, Source

  John Calvin (2014). “Obtaining the Grace of Christ: Institutes of The Christian Religion (Book 3)”, p.235, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The main achievement of economics is that it has provided a theory of peaceful human cooperation. This is why the harbingers of violent conflict have branded it as a dismal science and why this age of wars, civil wars, and destruction has no use for it.

  Ludwig von Mises

  War, Achievement, Peaceful

  Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays”

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• Nothing is more detestable to the physical anthropologist than... the wretched habit of cremating the dead. It involves not only a prodigal waste of costly fuel and excellent fertilizer, but also the complete destruction of physical historical data. On the other hand, the custom of embalming and mummification is most praiseworthy and highly to be recommended.

  Earnest Hooton

  Hands, Data, Historical

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• Today, it is more important than ever to raise human consciousness, so that technology becomes a means of empowerment, not destruction.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Mean

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• For eighteen centuries every engine of destruction that human science, philosophy, wit, reasoning or brutality could bring to bear against a book has been brought to bear against that book to stamp it out of the world, but it has a mightier hold on the world today than ever before. If that were man's book it would have been annihilated and forgotten hundreds of years ago.

  R. A. Torrey

  Philosophy, Book, Men

  Charles Leach, R. A. Torrey “Our Bible: How We Got It and Ten Reasons Why I Believe the Bible is the Word of God”, Moody Publishers

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• For great as the powers of destruction may be, greater still, are the powers of healing.

  Starhawk

  Healing, May, Stills

  Starhawk (2011). “The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Goddess: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.51, Harper Collins

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• Sustainable farms are to today's headlong rush toward global destruction what the monasteries were to the Dark Ages: places to preserve human skills and crafts until some semblance of common sense and common purpose returns to the public mind.

  Gene Logsdon

  Dark, Common Purpose, Skills

  Gene Logsdon (2000). “Living at Nature's Pace: Farming and the American Dream”, p.13, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• The idea that human-transforming technology that mingles the dna of natural and synthetic beings and merges man with machines could somehow be used or even inspired by evil supernaturalism to foment destruction within the material world is for some people so exotic as to be inconceivable. Yet nothing should be more fundamentally clear, as students of

  Thomas Horn

  Technology, Men, Ideas

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• Your troubles may point you to death and destruction, but God's Word points you to life.

  T. B. Joshua

  May, Trouble

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• We need a new kind of politics. Not the politics of governance, but the politics of resistance. The politics of opposition. The politics of joining hands across the world and preventing certain destruction.

  Arundhati Roy

  Joining Hands, Needs, World

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The Algebra of Infinite Justice”, p.215, Penguin Books India

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• The President of Iran has called for the destruction of Israel and the West and has even denied the holocaust took place. Iran and its terrorist arm Hezbollah are responsible for the current conflicts between Israel and Lebanon.

  Michael McCaul

  Israel, Iran, Holocaust

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• I fully share the Congress's objective of promoting nonproliferation and combating Iran's efforts to acquire weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and missile delivery systems. This issue remains at the top of the agenda with Russia as well as with other countries whose companies may be providing such assistance to Iran. In the case of Russian entities' cooperation with Iran, we have imposed penalties ten times in the past and stand ready to apply them again whenever necessary.

  William J. Clinton

  Country, Past, Iran

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001”, p.462, Best Books on

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• The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction also represents a serious danger. If these weapons were to fall into the hands of terrorists, and they pursue this aim, the consequences would be simply disastrous.

  Vladimir Putin

  Fall, Mass Destruction, Hands

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• Well, first of all, I have to say that Iraq has already used weapons of mass destruction against her own people and against Iranians during their long war, so we know that weapons of mass destruction are existent with the Iraqis.

  Richard Armitage

  War, Mass Destruction, Iraq

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• Our President feels, and apparently many in the United Nations Security Council feel, that it is necessary to disarm Iraq before Iraq can again use weapons of mass destruction on her neighbors or she makes some liaison with terrorists who will use these weapons either against Iraq's neighbors or ourselves.

  Richard Armitage

  Mass Destruction, Iraq, President

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• Today, Iraq is an immediate danger to our nation. This time, we cannot wait. We cannot wait for Saddam Hussein to take a devastating action or to transfer a weapon of mass destruction to someone else who will. After September 11th, it is simply no longer an option to sit back and contemplate an enemy - one with a stated intent to harm us, a track record and the means, and just wait for him to strike in order to protect ourselves.

  Richard Armitage

  Mean, Iraq, Mass Destruction

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• Well, I think finding the weapons of mass destruction is going to be quite time consuming. I know we've uncovered some documents, we'll have to exploit them, and we're going to have to blanket a country the size of California and search, I think, quite rigorously, but we'll come up with them.

  Richard Armitage

  Country, Thinking, Mass Destruction

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• For the last eight years, American policy toward Iraq has been based on the direct threat Saddam poses to international security. That threat is clear. Saddam's history of aggression leaves little doubt that he would resume his drive for regional domination and his quest for weapons of mass destruction if he had the chance.

  Sandy Berger

  Iraq, Eight, Mass Destruction

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• I think the burden is on those people who think he didn't have weapons of mass destruction to tell the world where they are.

  Ari Fleischer

  Stupid, Thinking, Mass Destruction

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• The truth is that for reasons that have a lot to do with the U.S. government bureaucracy, we settled on the one issue that everyone could agree on, which was weapons of mass destruction, as the core reason.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  Stupid, Wmd, Government

  "Pentagon challenges Vanity Fair report" by Jamie McIntyre, www.cnn.com. May 30, 2003.

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• In Iraq, a ruthless dictator cultivated weapons of mass destruction and the means to deliver them. He gave support to terrorists, had an established relationship with al Qaeda, and his regime is no more.

  Dick Cheney

  Stupid, Mean, Mass Destruction

  Dick Cheney's speech for Bush-Cheney '04 in Austin, Texas, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. November 7, 2003.

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• Imagine the consequences if Saddam fails to comply and we fail to act. Saddam will be emboldened, believing the international community has lost its will. He will rebuild his arsenal of weapons of mass destruction. And some day, some way, I am certain, he will use that arsenal again, as he has ten times since 1983.

  Sandy Berger

  Believe, Mass Destruction, Iraq

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• No one has done what Saddam Hussein has done, or is thinking of doing. He is producing weapons of mass destruction, and he is qualitatively and quantitatively different from other dictators.

  Madeleine Albright

  Thinking, Wmd, Mass Destruction

  "U.S. policy on Iraq draws fire in Ohio". www.cnn.com. February 18, 1998.

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• I come to this debate, Mr. Speaker, as one at the end of 10 years in office on the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, where stopping the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction was one of my top priorities. I applaud the President on focusing on this issue and on taking the lead to disarm Saddam Hussein... Others have talked about this threat that is posed by Saddam Hussein. Yes, he has chemical weapons, he has biological weapons, he is trying to get nuclear weapons.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Mass Destruction, Years, Iraq

  "Pelosi: Unilateral Use of Force Will Be Harmful to the War on Terrorism". Nancy Pelosi's address to the US House of Representatives, pelosi.house.gov. October 10, 2002.

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• We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country.

  Al Gore

  Country, Wmd, Mass Destruction

  Gore speech, usatoday30.usatoday.com. September 23, 2002.

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