“With the more endowed nations constrained by their own higher technological capacity for self-destruction as well as by self interest, war may have become a luxury that only the poor peoples of this world can afford.” WorldWellsMayWarSelfNationsInterestPoorThis WorldHigherCapacityDestructionLuxuryTechnologicalPoor PeopleSelf InterestSelf Destruction Book:The Grand Chessboard Source: The Grand Chessboard
“See here, if a simple act of kindness or generosity, such as buying a loaf of bread for some poor working women, can mean that wholesale death and destruction will be avoided - why, a man would be a monster who had it in his power to alleviate all that suffering yet stood by and did nothing.” IfsMenMeanWould BeSufferingSimplePoorKindnessDestructionMonstersBreadGenerosityBuyingAvoidedActs Of KindnessAlleviateWholesaleWorking WomenSimple Acts Of Kindness Author:Stephen R. Lawhead
“We know there are no weapons of mass destruction. But there are weapons of misdirection. Millions without health insurance, poverty abounds. For war, billions more, but no more for the poor.” KnowsWarPoorPovertyMillionsWeaponsMassDestructionBillionsWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionMisdirection Author:Joseph Lowery
“For there is another kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions; indifference and inaction and slow decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. This is a slow destruction of a child by hunger, and schools without books and homes without heat in the winter.” MenKindChildrenBookDifferentHomeSchoolNightPoorViolenceColorShotsDestructionSkinsRelationInstitutionsWinterHungerIndifferenceHeatPoisonBombsDestructiveDecayInactionDifferent Colors Author:Robert Kennedy
“Exploitation of the poor can be extinguished not by effecting the destruction of a few millionaires, but by removing the ignorance of the poor and teaching them to non-cooperate with their exploiters.” PoorTeachingIgnoranceDestructionExploitationMillionaire Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“They watch on, evil, incredibly stupid, enjoying my destruction. 'Poor Grendel's had an accident,' I whisper. 'So may you all.” MayEvilEnjoyPoorWatchesStupidDestructionAccidents Author:John Gardner
“But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.” ThinkingSelfHumanityMemoriesPoorStupidDestructionCollectivesSelf DestructionFickleGreat GiftsMockingjayShort LivedMockingjay BookPoor Memory Book:The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Source: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay
“For Ragamuffins, God's name is Mercy. We see our darkness as a prized possession because it drives us into the heart of God. Without mercy our darkness would plunge us into despair - for some, self-destruction. Time alone with God reveals the unfathomable depths of the poverty of the spirit. We are so poor that even our poverty is not our own: It belongs to the mysterium tremendum of a loving God.” HeartSelfSpiritNamesPoorPovertyDarknessDespairDestructionMercyDepthPossessionLoving GodPlungeSelf DestructionUnfathomableAlone TimeAlone With GodPrized Possessions Author:Brennan Manning
“It has passed over mountain ranges and The waters of the seven seas. It has shown upon laborers in the fields, Into the windows of homes, And shops, and factories. It has beheld cities with gleaming towers, And also the hovels of the poor. It has been witness to both good and evil, The works of honest men and women and The conspiracy of knaves. It has seen marching armies, bomb-blasted villages And "the destruction that wasteth at noonday." Now, unsullied from its tireless journey, It comes to us, Messenger of the morning. Harbinger of a new day.” MenHas BeensHomeEvilWaterPoorCitiesMorningJourneySeaHonestFieldsMountainMen And WomenWindowDestructionArmySevenWitnessRangeBombsShopsGood And EvilVillageFactoriesConspiracyTowersNew DayHonest ManMessengersLaborersKnavesHarbingerMountain Ranges Author:Clinton Lee Scott
“If one accepts the 24th and 104th Psalms as scriptural norms, then surface mining and other forms of earth destruction are perversions. If we take the Gospels seriously, how can we not see industrial warfare - with its inevitable massacre of innocents - as a most shocking perversion? By the standard of all scriptures, neglect of the poor, of widows and orphans, of the sick, the homeless, the insane, is an abominable perversion.” IfsEarthFormPoorAcceptingStandardsDestructionSickSurfaceScriptureInsaneInevitableNeglectWarfareHomelessShockingNormWidowsOrphanPerversionMiningMassacresPsalmsWidows And Orphans Author:Wendell Berry
“Joblessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Hunger is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor health care is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor education is a weapon of mass destruction. Discrimination is a weapon of mass destruction. Let us abolish such weapons of mass destruction here at home.” HomeCareWorkPoorPovertyWeaponsMassRacismDestructionHungerDiscriminationHealth CareJoblessnessWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionAbolishPoor HealthPoor Education Author:Dennis Kucinich
“Look at what realists have done for us. They have led us to war and climate change, poverty on an unimaginable scale, and wholesale ecological destruction. Half of humanity goes to bed hungry because of all the realistic leaders in the world. I tell people who call me 'unrealistic' to show me what their realism has done. Realism is an outdated, overplayed and wholly exaggerated concept.” PeopleWorldLooksWarDoneShowsProblemHumanityPoorHalfLeaderPovertyBedConceptsDestructionClimateClimate ChangeHungerScalesHungryCall MeRealisticRealismEcologyShow MeEcologicalRealistExaggeratedUnimaginableOutdatedWholesaleCauses Of Poverty Author:Satish Kumar
“Why has time disappeared in our culture? How is it that after decades of inventions and new technologies devoted to saving time and labor, the result is that there is no time left? We are a time-poor society; we are temporally impoverished. And there is no issue, no aspect of human life, that exceeds this in importance. The destruction of time is literally the destruction of life.” LifeHumansPhilosophyTimeCultureLeftPoorResultsTechnologyIssuesSocietyAspectLaborDestructionImportanceDecadesInventionSavingHuman LifeDevotedDeep ThoughtExceedNew TechnologyTime LeftSaving Time Author:Jacob Needleman
“It's a mistake to think that poor people get the benefit from the welfare system. It's a total fraud. Most welfare go to the rich of this country: the military-industrial complex, the bankers, the foreign dictators, it's totally out of control... This idea that the government has services or goods that they can pass on is a complete farce. Governments have nothing. They can't create anything, they never have. All they can do is steal from one group and give it to another at the destruction of the principles of freedom, and we ought to challenge that concept.” PeopleThinkingGivingIdeasCountryGovernmentCan DoChallengesPoorMistakePrinciplesRichGroupsMilitaryOughtBenefitsConceptsDestructionComplexesStealingWelfareGoodsFraudDictatorPoor PeopleBankersFarceMilitary Industrial Complex Author:Ron Paul