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“A large animal needs a large area. If you protect that area, you're also protecting thousands of other plants and animals. You're saving all these species that future generations will want - you're saving the world for your children and your children's children. . . . The destruction of species is final. If you lose a species, you lose the genes, you lose all the potential drugs and potential foods that could be useful to the next generations. The ecosystems will not function as they have.”

“Starting from the very reasonable, but unfortunately revolutionary concept that social practices which threaten the continuation of life on Earth must be changed, we need a theory of revolutionary ecology that will encompass social and biological issues, class struggle, and a recognition of the role of global corporate capitalism in the oppression of peoples and the destruction of nature.”

“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.”

Needs Causes Levels Creative Effects Creation Higher Demand Draws Connections Destruction Evolve Permanent Reasoning Stable Cause And Effect Higher Level

Author:Andrea Zittel

“No value is higher than self-esteem, but you've invested it in counterfeit securities-and now your morality has caught you in a trap where you are forced to protect your self-esteem by fighting for the creed of self-destruction. The grim joke is on you: that need of self-esteem, which you're unable to explain or to define, belongs to my morality, not yours; it's the objective token of my code, it is my proof within your own soul.”

Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)

“Our community of rebels, of humble truth seekers, wants to turn our culture around. We don't despise our country. We don't desire failure. We desire light, a beacon to show the world that our wealth need not show the way to more rapid destruction, but can be leveraged to heal more acres, more backyards, more communities faster than any civilization on the right path has ever done it.”

“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.”

Ifs Knows Needs Humans Kind War Feelings Form Causes Levels Race Mass Destruction Species Heal Human Race Mass Destruction Unthinkable

Author:Marianne Williamson

“We need a new kind of politics. Not the politics of governance, but the politics of resistance. The politics of opposition. The politics of joining hands across the world and preventing certain destruction.”

World Needs Kind Hands Certain Destruction Resistance Opposition Governance Joining Preventing Joining Hands

Book:The Algebra of Infinite Justice

Source: The Algebra of Infinite Justice

“There are people who in large measure have information that we need . . . so that we can track down the weapons of mass destruction in that country.”

People Needs Country Information Weapons Mass Destruction Iraq Track Weapons Of Mass Destruction Mass Destruction Wmd Wmds In Iraq

Author:Donald Rumsfeld

“The need always to lie and always to avoid the truth stripped everyone of what Custine called 'the two greatest gifts of God-the soul and the speech which communicates it.' People became hypocritical, cunning, mistrustful, cynical, silent, cruel, and indifferent to the fate of others as a result of the destruction of their own souls.”

People Needs Two Soul Lying Results Fate Speech Destruction Silent Communicate Cynical Indifferent Cunning Greatest Gifts Gift From God Hypocritical

Author:Theodore Dalrymple

“We can not have equilibrium in this world with the current inequality and destruction of Mother Earth. Capitalism is what is causing this problem and it needs to end.”

World Needs Ends Problem Earth Mother This World Capitalism Destruction Currents Inequality Can Not Mother Earth Equilibrium

Author:Evo Morales