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• Women more than men can strip war of its glamour and its out-of-date heroisms and patriotisms, and see it as a demon of destruction and hideous wrong.

  Lillian Wald

  War, Women, History

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• The end of the Cold War removed the immediate causes of whole destruction but not the threat contained in our knowledge. We must tame this knowledge with the ideals of justice, caring, and compassion summoned from our common human spiritual and moral heritage, if we are to live in peace and serenity in the twenty-first century.

  Mahnaz Afkhami

  Spiritual, War, Knowledge

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• The concept known as bal tashchit--'Do no destroy'--has a special significance in Jewish tradition...We are constantly being warned in our faith that the capricious, thoughtless, wasteful destruction of the elements and creatures of the earth is wrong...We should remind ourselves daily of our responsibility to all aspects of creation.

  David Geffen

  Nature, Responsibility, Animal

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• Patriotism does not oblige us to acquiesce in the destruction of liberty. Patriotism obliges us to question it, at least.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Patriotism, Liberty, Doe

  Wendy Kaminer (2002). “Free for All: Defending Liberty in America Today”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• Every artist, every scientist, must decide now where he stands. He has no alternative. There is no standing above the conflict on Olympian heights. There are no impartial observers. Through the destruction, in certain countries, of the greatest of man's literary heritage, through the propagation of false ideas of racial and national superiority, the artist, the scientist, the writer is challenged. The struggle invades the formerly cloistered halls of our universities and other seats of learning. The battlefront is everywhere. There is no sheltered rear.

  Paul Robeson

  Country, Struggle, Artist

  Paul Robeson, Philip Sheldon Foner (1978). “Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974”, Brunner-Routledge

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• Mankind needs peace more than ever, for our entire planet, threatened by nuclear war, is in danger of total destruction. A destruction only man can provoke, only man can prevent.

  Elie Wiesel

  Peace, War, Men

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• Monotheistic religions alone furnish the spectacle of religious wars, religious persecutions, heretical tribunals, that breaking of idols and destruction of images of the gods, that razing of Indian temples and Egyptian colossi, which had looked on the sun 3,000 years: just because a jealous god had said, Thou shalt make no graven image.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Religious, War, Jealous

  "Religion: A Dialogue" by Arthur Schopenhauer,

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• A truly free society must not include a peace which oppresses us. We must learn on our own terms what peace and freedom mean together. There can be no peace if there is social injustice and suppression of human rights, because external and internal peace are inseparable. Peace is not just the absence of mass destruction, but a positive internal and external condition in which people are free so that they can grow to their full potential.

  Petra Kelly

  Peace, Mean, Rights

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• I just have this absolute belief that humans are moving away from cruelty and destruction towards a time when we can truly live in harmony with nature. When we understand that there is a spiritual power around us from which we can draw strength. That is where I believe human destiny ultimately is taking us. I just hope we have time.

  Jane Goodall

  Strength, God, Spiritual

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• Beautiful forms and compositions are not made by chance, nor can they ever, in any material, be made at small expense. A composition for cheapness and not excellence of workmanship is the most frequent and certain cause of the rapid decay and entire destruction of arts and manufacturers.

  Josiah Wedgwood

  Beautiful, Wisdom, Art

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• How could a society escape destruction if, when political ties are relaxed, moral ties are not tightened, and what can be done with a people master of itself if it not subject to God?

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Wisdom, Ties, People

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1990). “Democracy in America”

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• We all are learning, modifying, or destroying ideas all the time. Rapid destruction of your ideas when the time is right is one of the most valuable qualities you can acquire. You must force yourself to consider arguments on the other side.

  Charlie Munger

  Change, Learning, Ideas

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• Through the practices of yoga, we discover that concern for the happiness and well being of others, including animals, must be an essential part of our own quest for happiness and well being. The fork can be a powerful weapon of mass destruction or a tool to create peace on Earth.

  Sharon Gannon

  Success, Powerful, Yoga

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• Humanity has passed through a long history of one-sidedness and of a social condition that has always contained the potential of destruction, despite its creative achievements in technology. The great project of our time must be to open the other eye: to see all-sidedly and wholly, to heal and transcend the cleavage between humanity and nature that came with early wisdom.

  Murray Bookchin

  Eye, Technology, Long

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• We have to get awakened to the fact that in recent decades, great destruction has been caused to our moral values as a result of our children, parents and families, getting influenced by the chaotic conditions of modern times.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Children

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• Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Joblessness is a weapon of mass destruction, homelessness, a weapon of mass destruction... racism, a weapon of mass destruction, fear, a weapon of mass destruction. We must disarm these weapons and renew our commitment to quality public schools and dedicated teachers and good housing and quality health care and decent jobs and stronger neighborhoods.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Teacher, Jobs, Teaching

  "House Divided: Kucinich Delegates Block Kerry From Receiving Unanimous Nomination". "Democracy now" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. July 29, 2004.

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• There exists among the intolerable degraded, the perverse and powerful desire to force into the arena of the actual those fantastic crimes of which they have been accused, achieving their vengeance and their own destruction through making the nightmare real.

  James A. Baldwin

  Powerful, Real, Evil

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• Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.

  Daniel Defoe

  Death, Self Esteem, Dying

  An Essay Upon projects 'Of Projectors'

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• This health-care plan is all about the destruction of the creation of wealth in America and the socialization of this country, and it won't work - never has anywhere else - and we're going to go to the mat here to see to it that they don't succeed.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, America, Care

  "Rush Limbaugh Show", www.mediamatters.org. April 4, 1994.

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• Illusions are certainly expensive amusements; but the destruction of illusions is still more expensive, if looked upon as an amusement, as it undoubtedly is by some people.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, People, Suffering

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.462, Courier Corporation

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• Is O used by René and Sir Stephen, or does she in fact use them, and...all those irons and chains and obligatory debauchery, to fulfill her own dream-that is, her own destruction and death? And, in some surreptitious way, isn't she in charge of them? Doesn't she bend them to her will?

  Anne Desclos

  Dream, Iron, Doe

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• There are many upright and faithful who live all the commandments and whose lives and prayers keep the world from destruction.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Prayer, Faithful, Missionary

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• We lament, too, the destruction of purity among women and young girls as is evidenced by the increasing immodesty of their dress and conversation and by their participation in shameful dances.

  Pope Pius XI

  Girl, Dresses, Modesty

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• A reduction in meat consumption is the most powerful single act that you can take to halt the destruction of our environment and preserve our natural resources.

  John Robbins

  Powerful, Meat Consumption, Vegetarian

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• If you want to know the one reason that's taking me back, I'll tell you: I cannot bring myself to abandon to destruction all the greatness of the world, all that which was mine and yours, which was made by us and is still ours by right - because I cannot believe that men refuse to see, that they can remain blind and deaf to us forever, when the truth is ours and their lives depend on accepting it.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Believe, Greatness

  "Atlas Shrugged".

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