Best destruction & principles Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“As citizen-activists the world over merge, they can become an irresistible force to create peace and protect the planet. From here will come a new movement to abolish nuclear weapons and all weapons of mass destruction. From here will come the demand for sustainable communities, for new systems of energy, transportation and commerce. From here comes the future rushing in on us. How does one acquire the capacity for active citizenship? The opportunities exist every day...Active citizenship begins with an envisioning of the desired outcome and a conscious application of spiritual principles.”

“That every will must consider every other will its equal would be a principle hostile to life, an agent of the dissolution and destruction of man, an attempt to assassinate the future of man, a sign of weariness, a secret path to nothingness.”

Men Would Be Secret Principles Path Equal Destruction Agents Nothingness Hostile Weariness Dissolution

Book:On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo

Source: On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo

“Either the State for ever, crushing individual and local life, taking over in all fields of human activity, bringing with it its wars and its domestic struggles for power, its palace revolutions which only replace one tyrant by another, and inevitably at the end of this development there is ... death! Or the destruction of States, and new life starting again in thousands of centers on the principle of the lively initiative of the individual and groups and that of free agreement.The choice lies with you!”

“Parents fear the destruction of natural affection in their children. What is this natural principle so liable to decay? Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first. Why is not custom nature? I suspect that this nature itself is but a first custom, as custom is a second nature.”

Firsts Children Parent Natural Principles Habit Destruction Affection Suspects Customs Decay Liable

Book:Thoughts on religion, and other subjects

Source: Thoughts on religion, and other subjects

“Ministers who threaten death and destruction employ weapons of weakness. Argument and kindness are alone effectual, flavored by the principles of Divine love.”

Principles Kindness Divine Weapons Weakness Argument Destruction Ministers Divine Love

Author:Hosea Ballou

“Factions among yourselves; preferring such To offices and honors, as ne'er read The elements of saving policy; But deeply skilled in all the principles That usher to destruction.”

Politics Principles Policy Honor Office Elements Destruction Saving Factions

Author:Philip Massinger

“I am not one of those who have the least anxiety about the triumph of the principles I have stood for. I have seen fools resist Providence before, and I have seen their destruction, as will come upon these again, utter destruction and contempt. That we shall prevail is as sure as that God reigns.”

Principles Fool Anxiety Destruction Triumph Contempt Providence Reign Defiance

Book:The Wilson reader

Source: The Wilson reader

“We now face the prospect of a kind of global civil war between those who refuse to consider the consequences of civilization's relentless advance and those who refuse to be silent partners in the destruction. More and more people of conscience are joining the effort to resist, but the time has come to make this struggle the central organizing principle of world civilizations.”

People World Kind War Faces Effort Principles Struggle Civilization Conscience Consequence Destruction Silent Refuse Partners Civil War Relentless Joining

Book:Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose

Source: Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose

“[Barack Obama] believes climate change is a bigger threat to our country than these barbaric Islamic terrorists that have as their organizing principle the destruction of Western civilization.”

Believe Country Principles Civilization Destruction Bigger Threat Climate Western Climate Change Terrorist Our Country Barack Islamic Western Civilization Barbaric

Author:Jeb Bush

“I was born a Zionist, because I didn't have a choice about that. It was the ether of my family life, but I certainly broke with it as I asked more questions about it. And that doesn't mean I want to see the destruction of a people, it means I want to see a state structure that might embody more substantially the basic principles of democracy.”

People Want Mean States Might Choices Born Principles Democracy My Family Destruction Structure Broke Family Life Zionist Basic Principles

Author:Judith Butler

“So much of the habitat destruction and pollution is based on the simple principle that we somehow have been given free license over other species to degrade the planet.”

Has Beens Given Simple Principles Planets Destruction Species Pollution License Degrade Habitat

Author:Greg Graffin

“We are being made aware that the organization of society on the principle of private profit, as well as public destruction, is leading both to the deformation of humanity by unregulated industrialism, and to the exhaustion of natural resources, and that a good deal of our material progress is a progress for which succeeding generations may have to pay dearly.”

Source: Christianity and Culture

“In the loss of skill, we lose stewardship; in losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of Creation. It is possible - as our experience in this good land shows - to exile ourselves from Creation, and to ally ourselves with the principle of destruction - which is, ultimately, the principle of nonentity. It is to be willing in general for being to not-be. And once we have allied ourselves with that principle, we are foolish to think that we can control the results. (pg. 303, The Gift of Good Land)”

Thinking Shows Loses Loss Results Principles Land Creation Willing Skills Losing Destruction Foolish Neighborhood Allies Exile Fellowship Stewardship Outcast Nonentity

Author:Wendell Berry

“There is only one tactical principle which is not subject to change. It is to use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wound, death, and destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time.”

“We would fight not for the political future of a distant city [Danzig], rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and security for the peoples of the earth.”

Earth Political Fighting Cities Principles Security Military Possibility Destruction Ruins Peace And Security

Author:Neville Chamberlain

“If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once we observe that destruction is so useful to her that she absolutely cannot dispense with it from this moment onward the idea of annihilation which we attach to death ceases to be real what we call the end of the living animal is no longer a true finish, but a simple transformation, a transmutation of matter. According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another.”

Ifs Ideas Real Ends Matter Moments Form Law Death Simple Animal Existence Principles Dying Destruction Eternity Transformation Deny Cease Passages Being Real Annihilation Transmutation

Author:Marquis de Sade

“Adopting a central organizing principle means embarking on an all-out effort to use every policy and program, every law and institution, to halt the destruction of the environment.”

“The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the cause of the destruction multiplied with the extent of conquest; and, as soon as time or accident and removed the artificial supports, the stupendous fabric yielded to the pressure of its own weight. The story of the ruin is simple and obvious: and instead of inquiring why the Roman Empire was destroyed we should rather be surprised that it has subsisted for so long.”

Source: The History of the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire

“If tolerance is taken to the point where it tolerates the destruction of those same principles that made tolerance possible in the first place, it becomes intolerable.”

Ifs Firsts Made Principles Taken Destruction Tolerance Tolerate

Author:Gaetano Mosca

“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.”

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Author:Ron Paul

“In a time of destruction, create something: a poem, a parade, a community, a school, a vow, a moral principle; one peaceful moment.”

Inspirational Moments School Poetry Peace Community Moral Principles Creation Morality Creating Destruction Peaceful Vow Parades Moral Principles Beautiful Moments

Book:The Fifth Book of Peace

Source: The Fifth Book of Peace

“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.”

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