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“Be still, Be joyous, Celebrate creation, preservation and destruction; For these are the seasons of your life: Of your knowing and being.”

Inspirational Stills Knowing Creation Buddhism Destruction Seasons Celebrate Preservation Joyous

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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 or democracy?”

“The price of dishonesty is self-destruction.”

Inspirational Self Destruction Dishonesty Self Destruction

Author:Rita Mae Brown

“Real victories are those that protect human life, not those that result from its destruction or emerge from its ashes.”

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Author:King Hussein I

“Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.”

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Author:Madeleine L'Engle

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”

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Author:George Orwell

“In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction: a hand is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently towards a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward; and the hand may be a little child's.”

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Book:Silas Marner

Source: Silas Marner

“Family and work. Family and work. I can let them be at war, with guilt as their nuclear weapon and mutually assured destruction as their aim, or I can let them nourish each other.”

Inspirational I Can War Weapons Destruction Aim Guilt Nuclear Nuclear Weapons Assured Work Family Mutually Assured Destruction

Book:The Writing Life

Source: The Writing Life

“Like all art forms, film is a media as powerful as weapons of mass destruction; the only difference is that war destroys and film inspires.”

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Author:Nicolas Winding Refn

“We can either passively continue on the road to utter domestication and destruction or turn in the direction of joyful upheaval, passionate and feral embrace of wildness and life that aims at dancing on the ruins of clocks, computers and that failure of imagination and will called work. Can we justify our lives by anything less than such a politics of rage and dreams?”

Source: Future Primitive Revisited

“But people who long to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many foolish desires and schemes that plunge them into ruin and destruction. For love of money is the root of all of evil and some having pursued its power, fall from faith and end in sorrow.”

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Author:Saint Timothy

“We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.”

“In a time of destruction, create something: a poem, a parade, a community, a school, a vow, a moral principle; one peaceful moment.”

Inspirational Moments School Poetry Peace Community Moral Principles Creation Morality Creating Destruction Peaceful Vow Parades Moral Principles Beautiful Moments

Book:The Fifth Book of Peace

Source: The Fifth Book of Peace