“The unthinkable is that we're distorting this atmospheric balance. We're shifting the chemical balance so that we have more poisons in the atmosphere - ozones and acid rain on ground level - while we're also changing the thermal climate of the earth through the greenhouse effect and - get this - simultaneously causing destruction of our primary filter of ultraviolet light. It's incredible. Talk about the national-debt crisis - we're piling up debts in the atmosphere, and the piper will want to be paid.” WantLightEarthLevelsEffectsBalanceRainDestructionPaidCrisisClimateIncrediblesDebtPrimariesAtmospherePoisonGlobal WarmingChemicalsShiftingAcidFiltersUnthinkableGreenhousesNational DebtPipersOzoneThermalUltravioletAcid RainDebt Crisis Author:Michael Oppenheimer
“While we were never able to provide 100 percent certainty regarding the disposition of Iraq's proscribed weaponry, we did ascertain a 90-95 percent level of verified disarmament. This figure takes into account the destruction or dismantling of every major factory associated with prohibited weapons manufacture, all significant items of production equipment, and the majority of the weapons and agent produced by Iraq.” AbleLevelsFiguresMajorsWeaponsPercentDestructionAccountsMajorityIraqProductionsSignificantAgentsCertaintyFactoriesDispositionEquipmentItemsDisarmamentWeaponry Author:Scott Ritter
“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
“Those who know in their hearts that they are not really necessary -- and are entirely replaceable-- must inevitably be tempted to misrepresent the nature of their work and build up a false notion of its importance. A further alienation from truth takes place, a further loss of contact with reality. And one thing we can be sure of is that self-deception, whether on the level of the wind and the rain or on that of spiritual reality, must always come up against the real sooner or later, and that its destruction is very painful.” KnowsHeartRealSelfRealitySpiritualLossLevelsOne ThingWindRainDestructionImportanceNotionCome UpPainfulContactDeceptionSooner Or LaterTemptedAlienationSelf Deception Author:Charles le Gai Eaton
“Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound and there is nothing in the business situation to warrant the destruction of values that has taken place on the exchanges during the past week, my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks. We are continuing and will continue our purchases in substantial amounts at levels which we believe represent sound investment values.” BelieveCountryPastValuesSoundLevelsCommonBusinessSituationTakenWeekConditionsSonAmountDestructionFundamentalsInvestmentMy SonContinuingWarrantsPurchasing Author:John D. Rockefeller
“The level of destruction and terror and violence carried out by the powerful states far exceeds anything that can imaginably can be done by groups that are called terrorists and subnational groups.” StatesDoneLevelsPowerfulViolenceGroupsDestructionTerrorTerroristExceed Author:Noam Chomsky
“There are moments when it frightens us, threatening to expose us as inauthentic. Well, the big-time impostors we read about in literature run this risk constantly, flirting with destruction, not just humiliation or embarrassment. It's a spectacle that we can't help but find compelling, and it involves a certain level of courage that we sneakily admire, perhaps.” WellsMomentsHelpingBigsRunningCertainLiteratureLevelsRiskDestructionAdmireCompellingThreateningHumiliationFlirtingEmbarrassment Author:Walter Kirn
“Sea level rise and destruction of water resources as glaciers melt alone may have horrendous human consequences.” HumansMayWaterLevelsSeaConsequenceResourcesDestructionGlaciersWater ResourcesSea Level Rise Author:Noam Chomsky
“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.” PeoplePersonsDoeHomeMovingLevelsWatchesTerribleDestructionHatredBlindMockeryCaptivity Author:James A. Baldwin
“When we approach love and creativity with the level of conviction that the powers-that-be in the world today are approaching hatred and destruction, then and only then will we have a chance.” WorldTodayChanceLevelsCreativityApproachDestructionHatredConvictionCarpe DiemWorld TodayCarpe Author:Marianne Williamson
“On one level my sense of despair had been dispelled by therapy, yet on another it had not been replaced by either the desire for a future or the concept of one. I felt more aware of who I was, but that in itself-dominated as it was by sensations of fragmentation and isolation-filled me with no great hope, and in many ways only fuelled an appetite for destruction.” WayDesireFeltLevelsDespairDepressionConceptsDestructionFilledIllnessMental IllnessTherapyIsolationSensationsAppetiteReplacedGreat HopeFragmentation Book:My War Gone By, I Miss It So Source: My War Gone By, I Miss It So
“Unfortunately, it is all too often true that suppressors to a creative action must be removed before construction and creation takes place. Any person very high on the Tone Scale may level destruction toward a suppressor.” MayPersonsActionLevelsCreativeCreationDestructionScalesToneConstruction Author:L. Ron Hubbard
“The creation of rule is more creative than the destruction of them. Creation demands a higher level of reasoning and draws connections between cause and effect. The best rules are never stable or permanent, but evolve naturally according to context or need.” NeedsCausesLevelsCreativeEffectsCreationHigherDemandDrawsConnectionsDestructionEvolvePermanentReasoningStableCause And EffectHigher Level Author:Andrea Zittel
“The intelligence community's 2002 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) stated, in a formal presentation to President Bush and to Congress, its view that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction - a belief in which the NIE said it held a 90% level of confidence. That is about as certain as the intelligence community gets on any subject.” SaidCertainBeliefPresidentCommunityLevelsViewsSubjectsWeaponsMassDestructionCongressFormalSaddamPresident BushPresentationNotableWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionIntelligence CommunityNational Intelligence Author:Laurence Silberman
“You know what we need to heal are the thought forms and the feelings that cause us to create war and mass destruction on this kind of a level, because ultimately if we are to survive as a species, we have to become a human race for whom the thought of war is unthinkable.” IfsKnowsNeedsHumansKindWarFeelingsFormCausesLevelsRaceMassDestructionSpeciesHealHuman RaceMass DestructionUnthinkable Author:Marianne Williamson
“On some deep cosmic level, we are all one, and within us we each contain the potential for good and for destruction, for compassion and hate, for generosity and greed.” HateWomenLevelsCompassionDestructionGreedGenerosityCosmic Author:Starhawk