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“The corporation is one of the great unheralded human inventions of destruction. It is a way to absolve from any personal liability a bunch of people. They form together in a massive ID and they do whatever they want.”

People Way Want Humans Together Form Destruction Invention Bunch Corporations Massive Liability Human Inventions

Author:Keith Olbermann

“The problem is that those of us sympathetic with the plight of indigenous people view them as quaint and colorful, but somehow reduced to margins of history as the real world [(our world)] moves on We will be known as an era in which we stood by and either actively endorsed or passively accepted the massive destruction of both biological and cultural diversity on the planet.”

“There is good reason to believe that we have already entered the Sixth Extinction, a period of destruction of species on a massive scale, comparable to the Fifth Extinction 65 million years ago, when three-quarters of the species on earth were destroyed, apparently by a huge asteroid.”

Years Believe Reason Earth Three Millions Huge Periods Years Ago Destruction Species Scales Destroyed Massive Quarters Fifth Extinction Asteroids

Author:Noam Chomsky

“There is a myth that the New Deal programs on their own pulled the US out of the Great Depression and created the conditions for the economic boom after World War II. As an economist, I can tell you, that is not true. In reality, it was mainly World War II that launched the boom - the massive war mobilization, the horrifying destruction and death caused by it, and then the reconstruction in its aftermath. he US was the only advanced capitalist country that was not bombed during the war.”

“The thing that keeps me awake at night is a nexus between terrorism and massive destruction...the possibility that a terrorist organization could either acquire a ready-made weapon or fabricate something improvised that would have a catastrophic effect for us.”

Made Night Effects Possibility Ready Weapons Destruction Organization Terrorism Terrorist Awake Acquire Massive Awake At Night Fabricate Nexus

Author:Michele Flournoy

“We cannot confront the massive challenges of poverty, hunger, disease and environmental destruction unless we address issues of population and reproductive health”

Challenges Poverty Issues Disease Destruction Environmental Hunger Population Addresses Massive Reproductive Health Environmental Destruction

Author:Thoraya Obaid

“If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.”

Ifs Politics Results Policy Destruction Innocence Massive Foreign Policy

Author:Ward Churchill

“I feel like I'm witnessing the systematic destruction of a people's ability to survive.... Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with”

People Feels Trying Sometimes Realizing Ability Military Destruction Machines Dinner Massive Systematic

Author:Rachel Corrie

“J.R.R.Tolkien has confessed that about a third of the way through The Fellowship of the Ring, some ruffian named Strider confronted the hobbits in an inn, and Tolkien was in despair. He didn't know who Strider was, where the book was going, or what to write next. Strider turns out to be no lesser person than Aragorn, the unrecognized and uncrowned king of all the forces of good, whose restoration to rule is, along with the destruction of the evil ring, the engine that moves the plot of the whole massive trilogy, The Lord of the Rings.”

Source: Plot

“Repressive states are developing weapons that could cause destruction on a massive scale.”

States Causes Weapons Destruction Iraq Scales Developing Massive

Author:Tony Blair

“The city of Hiroshima stands as more than a monument to massive death and destruction. It stands as a living testament to the necessity for progress toward nuclear disarmament.”

Science Death Cities Progress Destruction Nuclear Massive Testament Monument Disarmament Hiroshima Nuclear Disarmament

Book:Our Day and Generation: The Words of Edward M. Kennedy

Source: Our Day and Generation: The Words of Edward M. Kennedy