Destruction Quotes - Page 6

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  I believe our biggest issue is the same biggest issue that the whole world is facing, and that's habitat destruction.

  Steve Irwin

  Believe, Issues, Environmental

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• Dear Mr. President: ... We urge you, after consulting with Congress, and consistent with the U.S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions (including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraq sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs.

  Joe Lieberman

  Wmds In Iraq, Mass Destruction, Air

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• Iraq made commitments after the Gulf War to completely dismantle all weapons of mass destruction, and unfortunately, Iraq has not lived up to its agreement

  Barbara Boxer

  War, Commitment, Wmd

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• Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.

  Walter Benjamin

  Substance, Conquer, Ecstasy

  Walter Benjamin (2016). “One-Way Street”, p.28, Harvard University Press

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• As horrific as this impact has been on my constituents, it is only a small part of the overwhelming destruction covering 90,000 square miles of the Gulf Coast.

  Jo Bonner

  Impact, Squares, Covering

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• Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction.

  Owen D. Young

  Emotion, Wells, Humans

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• So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real.

  John F. Kerry

  Real, Wmd, Mass Destruction

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• Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books.

  John Dingell

  Book, Environmental, Library

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• He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983.

  Sandy Berger

  Wmd, Mass Destruction, Iraq

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• The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

  George Orwell

  Peace, War, Essentials

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.283, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic.

  James Larkin

  Fighting, Men, Race

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• I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism.

  Cat Stevens

  Spiritual, Reality, Violence

  "Faith and the future" by Yusuf Islam, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2001.

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• You should issue demerits for tree cutting or the destruction of humus.

  Donella Meadows

  Cutting, Issues, Tree

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• Carl took on the military-industrial complex. He campaigned around the world for an end to the production of weapons of mass destruction. To him it was a perversion of science.

  Ann Druyan

  Military, Mass Destruction, World

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• I do not believe in terrorism, violence, destruction, murder, pre-emption, or War.

  Rosanne Cash

  War, Believe, Violence

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• Any band that is out there chasing it is doing more destruction to music then someone who is out there playing what they truly feel.

  Bret Michaels

  Band, Chasing, Feels

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• We hear so much about weapons of mass destruction. But nine out of 10 war victims are killed by guns. It's the AK-47 that's a weapon of mass destruction.

  Andrew Niccol

  War, Gun, Mass Destruction

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• So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.

  James Dickey

  War, Modern, Source

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• All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage.

  Harold Pinter

  Literature, Damage, Collateral

  Interview with Ramona Koval, www.abc.net.au. September 14, 2002.

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• Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.

  Bob Marley

  Weed, Hippie, Drinking

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• Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

  Adolf Hitler

  Education, School, Rise To Power

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• Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.

  Joseph Addison

  Fall, Pride, Haughtiness

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• Number one, that it is smart to communicate and negotiate with your enemy instead of just waging war with bombs and weapons of mass destruction.

  Theodore C. Sorensen

  War, Smart, Mass Destruction

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• There were no weapons of mass destruction and Saddam Hussein was not involved in the September 11th attack.

  Charles Rangel

  Mass Destruction, September 11, Hussein

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• Indeed, the whole human species is endangered, by nuclear weapons or by other means of wholesale destruction which further advances in science are likely to produce.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Mean, Nuclear, Weapons

  Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.134, I.B.Tauris

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