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“We have no right to dictate, through irresponsible action or narrow-mindedness, the future of our children, and our children's children. There has been enough destruction, enough death, enough waste.”

Children Has Beens Enough Action Waste Destruction Our Children Irresponsible Narrow Mindedness

Author:Abdallah II

“In studying the fate of our forest king, we have thus far considered the action of purely natural causes only; but, unfortunately, man is in the woods, and waste and pure destruction are making rapid headway. If the importance of the forests were even vaguely understood, even from an economic standpoint, their preservation would call forth the most watchful attention of government”

Source: JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more

“A token of ecological awareness in a society devoted to self destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways.”

Way Self Awareness Waste Destruction Acknowledge Devoted Indulgence Unwilling Ecological Self Destruction Tokens Self Destruct

Book:The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion

Source: The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion

“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

“The existence of very pious feelings, in conjunction with intolerance, cruelty, and selfish policy, has never ceased to surprise and perplex those who have viewed it calmly from a distance. ... It is impossible to exaggerate the evil work theology has done in the world. What destruction of the beautiful monuments of past ages, what waste of life, what disturbance of domestic and social happiness, what perverted feelings, what blighted hearts, have always marked its baneful progress!”

“When the war (WWI) finally ended it was necessary for both sides to maintain, indeed even to inflate, the myth of sacrifice so that the whole affair would not be seen for what it was: a meaningless waste of millions of lives. Logically, if the flower of youth had been cut down in Flanders, the survivors were not the flower: the dead were superior to the traumatized living. In this way, the virtual destruction of a generation further increased the distance between the old and the young, between the official and the unofficial.”

Ifs Way War Whole Young Sides Millions Cutting Generations Sacrifice Youth Flower Waste Destruction Distance Affair Myth Superiors Officials Survivor Meaningless Both Sides Wwi Flanders

Author:Robert Hughes

“We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction.”

Knows Winning Sides Loses Economic Modern Waste Gains Destruction Scales Warfare Win Or Lose Modern Warfare

Book:The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements

Source: The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements

“Even ministers of good things are like torches, a light to others, waste and destruction to themselves.”

Light Waste Destruction Good Things Ministers Preaching Torches

Author:Richard Hooker

“Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.”

Littles Feelings Spiritual Cost Waste Capacity Destruction Liberalism Rectitude

Book:The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture

Source: The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture

“The Earth faces environmental problems right now that threaten the imminent destruction of civilization and the end of the planet as a livable world. Humanity cannot afford to waste its financial and emotional resources on endless, meaningless quarrels between each group and all others. there must be a sense of globalism in which the world unites to solve the real problems that face all groups alike.”

Source: I, Asimov: A Memoir

“When we say we have "hit the limits," we are saying that nature is the problem, when in fact the limits we have hit are the limits of destruction and waste, not nature.”

Facts Problem Limits Waste Destruction

Author:Frances Moore Lappé

“Perhaps in the world's destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing to be. The sweeping waste, hydroptic and coldly secular. The silence.”

World Made Would Be Lasts Silence Mountain Waste Ocean Destruction Secular Sweeping

Book:The Road

Source: The Road

“We've learned how to destroy, but not to create; how to waste, but not to build; how to kill men, but not how to save them; how to die, but seldom how to live.”

Men Dies Peace Learning Waste Destruction Kill Me

Author:Omar N. Bradley

“With its array of gadgets and machines, all powered by energies that are destructive of land or air or water, and connected to work, market, school, recreation, etc., by gasoline engines, the modern home is a veritable factory of waste and destruction. It is the mainstay of the economy of money. But within the economies of energy and nature, it is a catastrophe. It takes in the world's goods and converts them into garbage, sewage, and noxious fumes-for none of which have we found a use.”

“Until the 19th century, the term 'to consume' was used mainly in its negative connotations of 'destruction' and 'waste'. Tuberculosis was known as 'consumption', that is, a wasting disease. Then economists came up with a bizarre theory, which has become widely accepted, according to which the basis of a sound economy is a continual increase in the consumption (that is, waste) of goods”

Used Sound Term Known Economy Century Theory Disease Waste Negative Destruction Bases Increase Accepted Goods Consumption Economist Bizarre 19th Century Connotation Tuberculosis

Author:Petr Skrabanek

“Nothing is more detestable to the physical anthropologist than... the wretched habit of cremating the dead. It involves not only a prodigal waste of costly fuel and excellent fertilizer, but also the complete destruction of physical historical data. On the other hand, the custom of embalming and mummification is most praiseworthy and highly to be recommended.”

Hands Habit Waste Destruction Historical Data Excellent Fuel Customs Wretched Praiseworthy Anthropologists Prodigals Fertilizer Embalming

Author:Earnest Hooton

“We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.”