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“The Communist threat from without must not blind us to the Communist threat from within. The latter is reaching into the very heart of America through its espionage agents and a cunning, defiant, and lawless communist party, which is fanatically dedicated to the Marxist cause of world enslavement and destruction of the foundations of our republic.”

World Heart America Causes Party Destruction Foundation Blind Threat Agents Reaching Latter Republic Communist Dedicated Cunning Espionage Marxist Enslavement Communist Party

Author:J. Edgar Hoover

“We exhort the compromisers to open their hearts to truth, to free themselves of their wretched and blind circumspection, of their intellectual arrogance, and of the servile fear which dries up their souls and paralyzes their movements. Let us therefore trust the eternal Spirit which destroys and annihilates only because it is the unfathomable and eternal source of all life. The passion for destruction is a creative passion, too!”

Heart Soul Spirit Passion Creative Movement Source Eternal Intellectual Destruction Blind Arrogance Wretched Unfathomable Circumspection Creative Passion Intellectual Arrogance

Author:Mikhail Bakunin

“An ignorant people is the blind instrument of its own destruction.”

People Destruction Instruments Blind Ignorant Ignorant People

Book:El Libertador: Writings of Simón Bolívar

Source: El Libertador: Writings of Simón Bolívar

“Original sin, the true original sin, is the blind destruction for the sake of greed of this natural paradise which lies all around us-if only we were worthy of it.”

Ifs Lying Natural Sin Destruction Originals Blind Greed Sake Worthy Paradise Original Sin

Book:Desert Solitaire

Source: Desert Solitaire

“A person does not lightly elect to oppose his society. One would much rather be at home among one's compatriots than be mocked and detested by them. And there is a level on which the mockery of people, even their hatred, is moving, because it is so blind: It is terrible to watch people cling to their captivity and insist on their own destruction.”

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Author:James A. Baldwin

“I know no study which is so unutterably saddening as that of the evolution of humanity, as it is set forth in the annals of history. Out of the darkness of prehistoric ages man emerges with the marks of his lowly origin strong upon him. He is a brute, only more intelligent than the other brutes, a blind prey to impulses, which as often as not led him to destruction; a victim to endless illusions, which make his mental existence a terror and a burden, and fill his physical life with barren toil and battle.”

Source: The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley

“War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.”

Mean War Peace Stupid Destruction Murder Blind Stupidity Obedience Anti War Antiwar Irresponsible Wanton Callousness Blind Obedience

Book:Now and After: the ABC of Anarchist Communism

Source: Now and After: the ABC of Anarchist Communism

“War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. It degrades and stupefies with the sense that you are not responsible, that 'tis not yours to think and reason why, but to do and die,' like the hundred thousand others doomed like yourself. War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.”

Source: Now and After: the ABC of Anarchist Communism

“We and you ought not to pull on the ends of a rope which you have tied the knots of war. Because the more the two of us pull, the tighter the knot will be tied. And then it will be necessary to cut that knot, and what that would mean is not for me to explain to you. I have participated in two wars and know that war ends when it has rolled through cities and villages, everywhere sowing death and destruction. For such is the logic of war. If people do not display wisdom, they will clash like blind moles and then mutual annihilation will commence.”

People Ifs Knows Mean Two War Ends Cities Cutting Ought Destruction Logic Blind Mutual Village Display Tied Rope Clash Knots Annihilation Sowing Moles Two Of Us

Author:Nikita Khrushchev

“And violence is impractical, because the old eye for an eye philosophy ends up leaving everybody blind .. It is immoral because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for everybody. Means and ends are inseparable. The means represent the ideal in the making; in the long run of history destructive means cannot bring about constructive ends.”

“Is It Unloving to Speak of Hell? If you were giving some friends directions to Denver and you knew that one road led there but a second road ended at a sharp cliff around a blind corner, would you talk only about the safe road? No. You would tell them about both, especially if you knew that the road to destruction was wider and more traveled. In fact, it would be terribly unloving not to warn them about that other road.”

Ifs Giving Facts Would Be Speak Hell Safe Destruction Blind Corners Traveled Cliffs Denver

Book:Heaven

Source: Heaven

“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.”

Ifs Knows Men World Want Life Believe Long Made Stills Reason Desire Belief Loses Accepting Forever Greatness Mines Depends Truth Is Battle Destruction Blind Refuse Abandon Deaf Desire To Live

Author:Ayn Rand