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“INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction.”

Fool Destruction Relation Intimacy Mutual

Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“The 'coming of the Self' is immanent; and the process of collective 'individuation' is living itself out in human history. One way or another, the world is going to be made a single whole entity. But it will be unified either in mutual mass destruction or by means of mutual human consciousness. If a sufficient number of individuals can have the experience of the coming of the Self as an individual, inner experience, we may just possibly be spared the worst features of its external manifestation.”

“The Cold War philosophy of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD), which prevented the former Soviet Union and the United States from using the nuclear weapons they had targeted at each other, would not apply to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Iran. For him (Ahmadinejad), Mutual Assured Destruction is not a deterrent, it is an inducement.”

War States Philosophy President United United States Cold Weapons Destruction Mad Unions Nuclear Former Iran Mutual Soviet Nuclear Weapons Cold War Soviet Union Assured Deterrent

Author:Bernard Lewis

“Obsession with a consumerist lifestyle, above all when few people are capable of maintaining it, can only lead to violence and mutual destruction.”

People Violence Capable Destruction Lifestyle Obsession Mutual Maintaining

Book:On Care for Our Common Home, Laudato Si': The Encyclical of Pope Francis on the Environment

Source: On Care for Our Common Home, Laudato Si': The Encyclical of Pope Francis on the Environment

“One of the three big factors that count against war in the relationship between China and the U.S. are, first, nuclear weapons and even a condition of mutual assured destruction. Secondly, one's got two economies that have become so deeply interlaced that a war between the U.S. and China would leave Wal-Marts empty and Chinese factories producing for nothing. Thirdly, climate - if between the two of us, we keep doing what we're doing, we can create a climate in which our grandchildren won't be able to live.”

War Economy Empty Destruction Chinese Mutual Nuclear Weapons Grandchildren

Author:Graham T. Allison

“There is an efficiency inspired by love which goes far beyond and is much greater than the efficiency of ambition; and without love, which brings an integrated understanding of life, efficiency breeds ruthlessness.”

“International educational exchange is the most significant current project designed to continue the process of humanizing mankind to the point, we would hope, that men can learn to live in peace-eventually even to cooperate in constructive activities rather than compete in a mindless contest of mutual destruction....We must try to expand the boundaries of human wisdom, empathy and perception, and there is no way of doing that except through education.”

“We should seek international support for our mutual objectives abroad, in promoting freedom, democracy, respect for human rights, and also the elimination of weapons of mass destruction.”

Should Humans Support Democracy Rights Weapons Mass Destruction International Human Rights Objectives Mutual Promoting Weapons Of Mass Destruction Mass Destruction Elimination

Author:Bob Menendez

“We and you ought not to pull on the ends of a rope which you have tied the knots of war. Because the more the two of us pull, the tighter the knot will be tied. And then it will be necessary to cut that knot, and what that would mean is not for me to explain to you. I have participated in two wars and know that war ends when it has rolled through cities and villages, everywhere sowing death and destruction. For such is the logic of war. If people do not display wisdom, they will clash like blind moles and then mutual annihilation will commence.”

People Ifs Knows Mean Two War Ends Cities Cutting Ought Destruction Logic Blind Mutual Village Display Tied Rope Clash Knots Annihilation Sowing Moles Two Of Us

Author:Nikita Khrushchev

“It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction.”

Plans Destruction Arguing Mutual Engagement Polemics

Book:Mikhail Gorbachev: Prophet of Change : from the Cold War to a Sustainable World

Source: Mikhail Gorbachev: Prophet of Change : from the Cold War to a Sustainable World

“I will step outside the system. Voting for the “lesser evil”-or failing to vote at all-is part of the corporate agenda to crush what is left of our anemic democracy. And those who continue to participate in the vaudeville of a two-party process, who refuse to confront in every way possible the structures of corporate power, assure our mutual destruction.”

Way Two Evil Left Process Party Steps Democracy Failing Destruction Vote Structure Refuse Corporate Crush Voting Agendas Mutual Lesser Evil Vaudeville

Author:Chris Hedges

“There's a dance of mutual destruction going on between the media and politicians.”

Media Communication Politician Destruction Mutual

Author:Carmen Lawrence

“... mutual lack of understanding carries the threat of imminent and violent destruction.”

Understanding Destruction Threat Violent Carrie Mutual Lack Of Understanding

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn