“Nothing should be permitted to stand in the way of the preservation of the forests, and it is criminal to permit individuals to purchase a little gain for themselves through the destruction of forests when this destruction is fatal to the well-being of the whole country in the future.” WayShouldWellsLittlesCountryWholeIndividualGainsDestructionConservativeCriminalsForestsWell BeingPermitPreservation Book:Presidential addresses and state papers Source: Presidential addresses and state papers
“Possession of books denounced as heretical was made a criminal offense. Copies of such books were burned and destroyed. But in Upper Egypt, someone, possibly a monk from a nearby monastery of St Pachomius, took the banned books and hid them from destruction - in the jar where they remained buried for almost 1,600 years.” YearsMadeBookReligionDestructionPossessionCriminalsDestroyedCopiesBuriedBurnedOffenseEgyptMonkJarsBannedMonasteriesBanned Books Book:The Gnostic Gospels Source: The Gnostic Gospels
“The essence of justice is mercy. Making a child suffer for wrong-doing is merciful to the child. There is no mercy in letting the child have its own will, plunging headlong to destruction with the bits in its mouth. There is no mercy to society nor to the criminal if the wrong is not repressed and the right vindicated. We injure the culprit who comes up to take his proper doom at the bar of justice, if we do not make him feel that he has done a wrong thing. We may deliver his body from the prison, but not at the expense of justice nor to his own injury.” IfsFeelsMayChildrenDoneBodySufferingBitsJusticeMouthsDestructionMercyEssencePrisonCome UpCriminalsBarsInjuryExpensesDoomWrong ThingsMercifulRetributionRepressedCulpritVindicated Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin
“The kind of violence, looting, destruction that we saw from a handful of individuals in Baltimore, there's no excuse for that. That's not a statement. That's not politics. That's not activism. That's just criminal behavior.” KindPoliticsIndividualSawsViolenceBehaviorDestructionExcuseActivismCriminalsStatementsHandfulNo ExcusesBaltimoreLootingCriminal Behavior Author:Barack Obama
“Kant argued that, where nature could be considered beautiful in her acts of destruction, human violence appeared instead as monstrous. However, a misreading of Kant in Romantic philosophy led to the idealization of the murderer as a sublime genius that has colored constructions of that criminal figure ever since.” HumansPhilosophyBeautifulViolenceFiguresGeniusDestructionCriminalsConstructionSublimeMurdererMonstrousMisreading Author:Richard Marshall
“Drugs are available to those who want them. And where are those profits going? Into organized crime, [to criminals] who spend their profits on the destruction of whole societies.” WantWholeCrimeDrugDestructionProfitAvailableCriminalsOrganizedOrganized Crime Author:Sam Branson
“I really think we were charting a course to having a more sane response to mass incarceration, to drug use, and to understanding that the war on drugs has resulted only in the empowerment of vast criminal enterprises and the destruction of democracies around the world. And all that is coming to a miserable, horrific halt.” ThinkingWorldWarUseCoursesUnderstandingDemocracyDrugMassEmpowermentDestructionResponseCriminalsAround The WorldMiserableEnterpriseSaneHaltWar On DrugsHorrificIncarcerationDrug UseMass IncarcerationCharting Author:Ayelet Waldman
“What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated? What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy. What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and, therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals? The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Non-cooperation with evil is a sacred duty.” KindDoeWarHumanityEvilNamesLeftStrongDifferencesLibertyDemocracyCrimeDutyVictoryHolyWeakDestructionSacredMadForgivingCriminalsCooperationAttributesAntiwarDefeatedHomelessTotalitarianismOrphanNever Forgive Author:Mahatma Gandhi
“The only form of revolution beneficial to the people is one which destroys the entire state to the roots and exterminates all the state traditions, institutions and classes…. Day and night [the revolutionary] must have but one thought, one aim – merciless destruction…for him morality is everything which contributes to the triumph of the revolution. Immoral and criminal is everything that stands in its way.” PeopleWayStatesFormNightClassRevolutionMoralityTraditionRootsDestructionAimInstitutionsCriminalsTriumphRevolutionaryImmoralBeneficialDay And Night Author:Sergey Nechayev
“Alfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirable tasks. They are also a means to terrible destruction in the hands of the great criminals who lead peoples to war.” MenMeanWarHelpingHandsPowerfulTerribleDiscoveryTasksDestructionCriminalsCharacteristicsHelp MeAdmirableNobelExplosives Author:Pierre Curie