Destruction Quotes - Page 28

• We believe, as the President has indicated, that this combination of a rogue state that possesses weapons of mass destruction and has known ties to terrorist organizations, is a grave threat to the people of the United States and to other countries around the world.

  Paul Cellucci

  Country, Believe, Organization

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• Whereas Iraq has consistently breached its cease-fire agreement between Iraq and the United States, entered into on March 3, 1991, by failing to dismantle its weapons of mass destruction program, and refusing to permit monitoring and verification by United Nations inspections; Whereas Iraq has developed weapons of mass destruction, including chemical and biological capabilities, and has made positive progress toward developing nuclear weapons capabilities

  Tom Harkin

  Agreement, Iraq, Fire

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• Iraq does pose a serious threat to the stability of the Persian Gulf and we should organize an international coalition to eliminate his access to weapons of mass destruction. Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to completely deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power.

  Al Gore

  Wmd, Mass Destruction, Iraq

  Al Gore's speech on Iraq, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2002.

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• The threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real, but as I said, it is not new. It has been with us since the end of that war, and particularly in the last 4 years we know after Operation Desert Fox failed to force him to reaccept them, that he has continued to build those weapons. He has had a free hand for 4 years to reconstitute these weapons, allowing the world, during the interval, to lose the focus we had on weapons of mass destruction and the issue of proliferation.

  John F. Kerry

  Real, War, Mass Destruction

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• Saddam's removal is necessary to eradicate the threat from his weapons of mass destruction

  Jack Straw

  Wmd, Mass Destruction, Weapons

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• Before people crow about the absence of weapons of mass destruction, I suggest they wait a bit.

  Tony Blair

  Wmd, Mass Destruction, People

  "9/11: The Shocking Truth Laid Bare". Article by Lasha Darkmoon, www.veteranstoday.com. September 6, 2014.

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• I am confident that we will find evidence that makes it clear he had weapons of mass destruction.

  Colin Powell

  Wmd, Mass Destruction, Weapons

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• I can't imagine anyone who doesn't think the world is safer without a tyrant who murdered his own people, used weapons of mass destruction against them and flouted the world for so many years.

  Karen Hughes

  Thinking, Mass Destruction, Years

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• There was promulgation of false propaganda by the administration about the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. There was promulgation of false propaganda about Iraq as a base for Al Qaeda.

  Jimmy Carter

  Mass Destruction, Tyrants, Iraq

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• The need always to lie and always to avoid the truth stripped everyone of what Custine called 'the two greatest gifts of God-the soul and the speech which communicates it.' People became hypocritical, cunning, mistrustful, cynical, silent, cruel, and indifferent to the fate of others as a result of the destruction of their own souls.

  Theodore Dalrymple

  Lying, Fate, Two

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• Even in a minute instance, it is best to look first to the main tendencies of Nature. A particular flower may not be dead in early winter, but the flowers are dying; a particular pebble may never be wetted with the tide, but the tide is coming in. To the scientific eye all human history is a series of collective movements, destructions or migrations, like the massacre of flies in winter or the return of birds in spring.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Spring, Flower, Eye

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• The city of Hiroshima stands as more than a monument to massive death and destruction. It stands as a living testament to the necessity for progress toward nuclear disarmament.

  Edward Kennedy

  Death, Science, Nuclear Disarmament

  Edward Moore Kennedy (1979). “Our Day and Generation: The Words of Edward M. Kennedy”

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• The Olympics create a space for the complete destruction of human rights in Russia.

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

  Russia, Rights, Space

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• In my opinion, nothing has contributed so much to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country and that every act of its rulers must be excused, if not imitated. And so for the last ten years, I have been convinced that the destruction of the Soviet myth was essential if we wanted a revival of the socialist movement.

  George Orwell

  Country, Russia, Socialist Countries

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “It is what I think, 1947-1948”, Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd

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• Our arms must be mighty ... ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Risk, May, Arms

  Farewell Address, delivered 17 January 1961

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• But we cannot allow weapons of mass destruction to fall into the hands of terrorists. I will not allow that to happen.

  George W. Bush

  Fall, Mass Destruction, Hands

  "Decision Points". Book by George W. Bush, books.google.ru. November 10, 2010.

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• Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.

  Jules Verne

  Men, Creative, Instinct

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea / Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)”, p.135, Jules Verne

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• Even if we give first priority to the destruction of terrorist networks, and even if we succeed, there are still governments that could bring us great harm. And there is a clear case that one of these governments in particular represents a virulent threat in a class by itself: Iraq. As far as I am concerned, a final reckoning with that government should be on the table.

  Al Gore

  Government, Class, Iraq

  "A Commentary on the War Against Terror: Our Larger Tasks". Address to the Council on Foreign Relations, February 12, 2002.

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• We can not have equilibrium in this world with the current inequality and destruction of Mother Earth. Capitalism is what is causing this problem and it needs to end.

  Evo Morales

  Mother, Needs, World

  "Cochabamba: Mining protests overshadow climate summit" by Claudia Lopez Pardo, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2010.

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• Destruction of the embryo in the mother's womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed upon this nascent life.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Mother, Womb, Embryos

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “Ethics”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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• If you can sin and not weep over it, you are an heir of Hell. If you can go into sin, and afterwards feel satisfied to have done so, you are on the road to destruction. If there are no prickings of conscience, no inward torments, no bleeding wounds; if you have no throbs and heavings of a bosom that cannot rest; if your soul never feels filled with wormwood and gall when you know you have done evil, you are no child of God.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Children, Evil, Soul

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 13: Sermons 728 to 787”, p.783, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• In order to create it is necessary to destroy; and the agent of destruction in society is the poet. I believe that the poet is necessarily an anarchist, and that he must oppose all organized conceptions of the State, not only those which we inherit from the past, but equally those which are imposed on people in the name of the future.

  Herbert Read

  Believe, Past, Order

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• It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Suicidal, Answers, Consciousness

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.232, Simon and Schuster

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• Of course, Israel cannot be expected to negotiate with anyone who is dedicated to its destruction. But while I know you have had differences with the Palestinian Authority, I believe that you do have a true partner in President Abbas.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Differences, Israel

  "Obama: Israel Has "True Partners" In Peace In Abbas, Fayyad". www.realclearpolitics.com. March 21, 2013.

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• Through a historical catastrophe - the destruction of Jerusalem by the emperor of Rome - I was born in one of the cities in the diaspora. But I always deemed myself a child of Jerusalem, one who is in reality a native of Jerusalem.

  Shmuel Yosef Agnon

  Children, Reality, Rome

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