“If we cannot meet our everyday surroundings with equanimity and pleasure and grow each day in some useful direction, then... life is on the road toward misfortune, misery and destruction.” IfsLife IsGrowsPleasureDestructionMiseryEverydayEach DayMisfortunesSurroundingsEquanimity Author:Luther Burbank
“Genocide, the physical extinction of a people, is universally condemned, but ethnocide, the destruction of people's way of life, is not only not condemned, it's universally celebrated as part of a development strategy.” PeopleWayInspirationLife IsMotivationDevelopmentDestructionStrategyGenocideExtinction Author:Wade Davis
“There is no explanation you can give that will explain away all the sufferings and evil and torture and destruction and hunger in the world! You'll never explain it. Because life is a mystery, which means your thinking mind cannot make sense of it. For that you've got to wake up and then you'll suddenly realize that reality is not the problem, you are the problem.” ThinkingWorldGivingMindMeanProblemRealityLife IsSufferingEvilRealizingMysteryDestructionWake UpHungerMake SenseExplanationTortureThinking Mind Author:Anthony de Mello
“Our determination to defend our values and way of life is greater than their (terrorists) determination to cause death and destruction to innocent people in a desire to impose extremism upon the world.” PeopleWorldWayLife IsDesireValuesCausesGreaterDeterminationDestructionTerroristInnocentExtremism Author:Tony Blair
“You cannot dissociate birth from death, creation from destruction, good from evil. Thus any art is a form of drama standing between the two extreme poles of birth and death, just like life is drama. This is not sad, because to be alive means to be mortal, to pass through.” MeanArtTwoFormLife IsEvilAliveCreationBirthDramaArt IsStandingDestructionExtremesMortalsBirth And DeathTwo Extremes Author:Paul Virilio
“My fear of life is necessary to me, as is my illness. Without anxiety and illness, I am a ship without a rudder. My art is grounded in reflections over being different from others. My sufferings are part of my self and my art. They are indistinguishable from me, and their destruction would destroy my art. I want to keep those sufferings” WantArtDifferentSelfLife IsSufferingAnxietyReflectionArt IsDestructionIllnessShipsGroundedBeing DifferentFears Of LifeRudders Author:Edvard Munch
“I hate solitude but I am afraid of intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself and to turn it into a dialogue would be equivalent to self-destruction. The company I need is the company which a pub or a cafe will provide. I have never wanted a communion of souls.” NeedsSoulSelfHardEnoughWould BeWantedLife IsHateTurnsCompanySolitudeConversationDestructionI HateOneselfDialogueIntimacySubstanceTelling The TruthCommunionSelf DestructionPubsCafes Author:Iris Murdoch
“The more the drive toward life is thwarted, the stronger is the drive toward destruction; the more life is realized, the less is the strength of destructiveness. Destructiveness is the outcome of unlived life.” Life IsDestructionStrongerOutcomesDestructiveness Book:Escape from Freedom Source: Escape from Freedom
“The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.” CharacterFeelingsLife IsTroubleDestructionSuicideDestructiveWorth LivingLife Is Worth LivingLife Is Not Worth Living Book:Gesammelte Schriften Source: Gesammelte Schriften
“I find it impossible to subscribe to a philosophy that believes that the destruction of human life is a legitimate solution to a problem that is mostly social, economic and psychological,... In reality, most women 'choose' abortion because they believe they have no other choice.” BelieveHumansPhilosophyProblemRealityLife IsChoicesSocialImpossibleEconomicSolutionsDestructionPsychologicalHuman LifeAbortionSolution To A Problem Author:Patricia Heaton
“Perhaps the most extraordinary characteristic of current America is the attempt to reduce life to buying and selling. Life is not love unless love is sex and bought and sold. Life is not knowledge save knowledge of technique, of science for destruction. Life is not beauty except beauty for sale. Life is not art unless its price is high and it is sold for profit. All life is production for profit, and for what is profit but for buying and selling again?” ArtAmericaLife IsSexLove IsDestructionExtraordinaryProfitCurrentsProductionsTechniqueSellingCharacteristicsBuyingBuying And Selling Author:W. E. B. Du Bois
“Through all the centuries of the worship of the mindless, whatever stagnation humanity chose to endure, whatever brutality to practice-it was only by the grace of the men who perceived that wheat must have water in order to grow, that stones laid in a curve will form an arch, that two and two make four, that love is not served by torture and life is not fed by destruction-only by the grace of those men did the rest of them learn to experience moments when they caught the spark of being human.” MenHumansTwoMomentsFormLife IsHumanityOrderGrowsWaterLove IsPracticeGraceFourCenturyHe ManWorshipStonesDestructionEndureCaughtTortureFedsSparksBeing HumanCurvesBrutalityWheatMindlessStagnationArches Author:Ayn Rand
“Woman possesses the cosmic force of an element, an invincible force of destruction, like nature's. She is, in herself alone, all nature! Being the matrix of life, she is by that very fact the matrix of death - since it is from death that life is perpetually reborn, and since to annihilate death would be to kill life at its only fertile source.” FactsWould BeLife IsForceSourceElementsDestructionCosmicInvincibleFertileReborn Book:Torture Garden Source: Torture Garden
“That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In the act of destruction, man sets himself above life; he transcends himself as a creature. Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate.” MenLifeLife IsHateChoicesJusticeCreaturesDestructionUltimateMiracleDrivenMiraculousFeatsInexplicable Author:Erich Fromm