“Starvation and disease are the original weapons of mass destruction. When you burn fields and kill animals, people are left vulnerable.” PeopleLeftAnimalFieldsDiseaseWeaponsMassDestructionOriginalsVulnerableStarvationWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass Destruction Author:James Nachtwey
“All parents want their offspring to be exemplars of virtue and achievement and happiness. But most of all, we want desperately for you to be safe - safe from disease and violence and self-destruction.” WantSelfParentVirtueViolenceSafeDiseaseAchievementDestructionOffspringSelf Destruction Author:Estelle Ramey
“If I had to predict, the way things are going, I'd say the chances are about 50-50 that humanity will be extinct or nearly extinct within 50 years. Weapons of mass destruction, disease, I mean this global warming is scaring the living daylights out of me.” IfsWayYearsMeanHumanityChanceDiseaseWeaponsMassDestructionGlobal WarmingChances AreWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionDaylight Author:Ted Turner
“I've had two great years, probably five good years. So I had 20 years of just kind of uncertainty and suffering and ego destruction and poverty. All these things. There's no way I'm ever going to catch up to the misery years. It's impossible... If I don't do anything dumb or I don't get a disease or something, and then I've got to five to eight years I think where it'll really be great and then it will start to degenerate like uranium, you know?” IfsThinkingKnowsWayYearsKindTwoSufferingPovertyFiveImpossibleEgoDiseaseDestructionMiseryEightDumbUncertaintyDegeneratesUraniumGreat YearGood Years Author:Louis C. K.
“The potency of prayer hath subdued the strength of fire; it hath bridled the rage of lions, hushed anarchy to rest, extinguished wars, appeased the elements, expelled demons, burst the chains of death, expanded the gates of heaven, assuaged diseases, repelled frauds, rescued cities from destruction, stayed the sun in its course, and arrested the progress of the thunderbolt.” WarCoursesHeavenPrayerCitiesSunFireProgressDiseaseElementsDestructionRageChainsDemonGatesLionsAnarchyFraudArrestedPotencyThunderboltsGates Of Heaven Author:Saint John Chrysostom
“Something is wrong. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, crime, torture, corruption and the ice capades. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed. This is not what you expect to find on the resume of a supreme being. It's what you expect from an office temp with a bad attitude.” IfsWarReligionCan DoAttitudePovertyAtheismCrimeOfficeDiseaseDestructionHungerCorruptionSupremeIceTortureImpressedResumesFilthSupreme BeingBad AttitudeNot ImpressedBest God Author:George Carlin
“You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life sickens more than disease And boldness is the root of beauty - Which draws us together.” LifeTogetherFallPathArmsDiseaseDrawsRootsDestructionBoldness Author:Boris Pasternak
“We cannot confront the massive challenges of poverty, hunger, disease and environmental destruction unless we address issues of population and reproductive health” ChallengesPovertyIssuesDiseaseDestructionEnvironmentalHungerPopulationAddressesMassiveReproductive HealthEnvironmental Destruction Author:Thoraya Obaid
“All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I’d be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.” IfsWorldWholeViolenceDespairDiseaseStandingDestructionWhole WorldTranquilHooverJ Edgar Hoover Author:Lenny Bruce
“Until the 19th century, the term 'to consume' was used mainly in its negative connotations of 'destruction' and 'waste'. Tuberculosis was known as 'consumption', that is, a wasting disease. Then economists came up with a bizarre theory, which has become widely accepted, according to which the basis of a sound economy is a continual increase in the consumption (that is, waste) of goods” UsedSoundTermKnownEconomyCenturyTheoryDiseaseWasteNegativeDestructionBasesIncreaseAcceptedGoodsConsumptionEconomistBizarre19th CenturyConnotationTuberculosis Author:Petr Skrabanek
“It's terribly wrong to stuff that sacred citadel with junk you know darn well is bad for you, I came to realize I was barreling pell-mell down the road leading to disease, disability and premature destruction of the most precious thing I could ever be given-my own life.” KnowsWellsArtGivenStuffRealizingMy OwnDiseaseDestructionSacredMartial ArtsDisabilityJunkMy Own LifeDown The RoadPrematurePrecious ThingsCitadels Author:Ralph Maxwell
“In the seed and the soil, we find the answers to every one of the crises we face. The crises of violence and war. The crises of hunger and disease. The crisis of the destruction of democracy.” WarFacesAnswersDemocracyViolenceDiseaseDestructionCrisisHungerSeedsSoilViolence And War Author:Vandana Shiva
“The unchecked striving for more, for endless growth, is a dysfunction and a disease. It is the same dysfunction the cancerous cell manifests, whose only goal is to multiply itself, unaware that it is bringing about its own destruction by destroying the organism of which it is a part.” GoalGrowthDiseaseDestructionStriveEndlessCellsDestroyingOrganismsDysfunction Book:A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose