“The liberation of Iraq was part of a broader effort to seriously confront the greatest threat to world security: rogue states capable of obtaining long range weapons of mass destruction.” WorldLongStatesEffortSecurityWeaponsMassCapableDestructionThreatIraqLiberationRangeWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionRoguesObtaining Author:Armstrong Williams
“The drive to be useful is encoded in our genes. But when we gather in very large numbers, as in the modern nation-state, we seem capable of levels of folly and self-destruction to be found nowhere else in all of nature. But if we keep at it and keep alive, we are in for one surprise after another. We can build structures for human society never seen before, thoughts never heard before, music never heard before.” IfsHumansSelfStatesSeemsFoundNationsLevelsNumbersAliveHeardModernCapableDestructionStructureSurprisePersistenceFollyGenesLarge NumbersHuman SocietySelf Destruction Author:Lewis Thomas
“Obsession with a consumerist lifestyle, above all when few people are capable of maintaining it, can only lead to violence and mutual destruction.” PeopleViolenceCapableDestructionLifestyleObsessionMutualMaintaining Book:On Care for Our Common Home, Laudato Si': The Encyclical of Pope Francis on the Environment Source: On Care for Our Common Home, Laudato Si': The Encyclical of Pope Francis on the Environment
“I look at my women with a Shakespearean element too - the variant of emotions they are capable of - it's not all completely dour, there is a bit of humor in there too! I actually think the whole Shakespearean world is wrapped up in every human being, from beauty to destruction and everything in between.” ThinkingWorldEmotionCapableDestruction Author:Miles Aldridge
“The claim that democracy and efficiency are contradictory is nonsense. That's evident in the history of democracy itself, because it is only democrats who were and continue to be capable of learning from mistakes. A more appropriate question is to ask whether a country like China, which has been so incredibly successful economically, is actually inefficient in light of its environmental destruction and its corruption. In China's perception, however, the democratic model is doubtlessly inferior.” CountryMistakeDemocracySuccessfulPerceptionCapableDestructionDemocraticDemocratEnvironmentalCorruptionNonsenseEfficiencyContradictoryLearning From Mistakes Author:Sigmar Gabriel
“Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case.” WholeFeelingsPainFormHumanityEvilPleasureAnimalCompassionCasesDutyCapableCapacityDestructionSpeciesPain And Pleasure Author:John Rawls