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“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.”

Ifs Life Is Grows Pleasure Destruction Misery Everyday Each Day Misfortunes Surroundings Equanimity

Author:Luther Burbank

“Bolshevism turns flourishing countryside into sinister wastes of ruins; National Socialism transforms a Reich of destruction and misery into a healthy state with a flourishing economic life.”

States Turns Economic Healthy Waste Destruction Misery Socialism Ruins Countryside Flourishing Sinister Bolshevism

Author:Adolf Hitler

“I think that Poe is so resonant because he represents that part of us that is in misery or sorrowful or wants to explore the darkness. He wrote a great story called 'The Imp of the Perverse' about the instinct towards self-destruction. Poe is the godfather of Goth literature and that whole movement.”

Thinking Want Self Whole Stories Literature Darkness Movement Destruction Misery Instinct Self Destruction Goth Sorrowful

Author:John Cusack

“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?”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Years Kind Two Suffering Poverty Five Impossible Ego Disease Destruction Misery Eight Dumb Uncertainty Degenerates Uranium Great Year Good Years

Author:Louis C. K.

“Time and time again throughout the latter part of the Cold War, liberals chose a morally perverse pose. They would seek to find any suspect motive or impure act on the part of the United States rather than confront the staggering scale of destruction and misery being wrought by our adversaries.”

War States United United States Cold Destruction Misery Scales Motive Latter Suspects Cold War Adversaries Staggering

Book:Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First

Source: Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First

“I thought if we made an album that tried to change the world, or give it hope, it would really happen. But all people found was death and destruction and misery and self-hate. I learned that the world doesn't want to be saved, and it will f**king punch you in the face if you try.”

People Ifs World Want Giving Trying Made Self Happens Faces Hate Found Kings Destruction Misery Albums Saved Changing The World Self Hate

Author:Gerard Way

“To those humans in whom I have faith; I wish suffering, being forsaken, sickness, maltreatment, humiliation. I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the misery of the vanquished. I have no pity for them because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not—that one endures' . . . Remember, the passion for destruction is also a creative passion.”

“Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.”

War Form Peace Process Products Destruction Misery Terror Anti War Antiwar Principal Starvation Mutilation

Book:Technics and Civilization

Source: Technics and Civilization

“The brain is the man; its health is essential for normal living; its disorders are surely the most profound of human miseries; and its destruction annihilates a person humanly, however intact his body.”

Men Humans Persons Body Brain He Man Essentials Normal Destruction Misery Profound Disorder

Author:H. Chandler Elliott

“Anarchism is the abolition of exploitation and oppression of man by man, that is, the abolition of private property and government; Anarchism is the destruction of misery, of superstitions, of hatred. Therefore, every blow given to the institutions of private property and to the government, every exaltation of the conscience of man, every disruption of the present conditions, every lie unmasked, every part of human activity taken away from the control of the authorities, every augmentation of the spirit of solidarity and initiative, is a step towards Anarchism.”

Source: The Method of Freedom: An Errico Malatesta Reader

“Let us look upon a crucified Christ, the remedy of all our miseries. His cross hath procured a crown, his passion hath expiated our transgression. His death hath disarmed the law, his blood hath washed a believer's soul. This death is the destruction of our enemies, the spring of our happiness, and the eternal testimony of divine love.”