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“Our assaults on the ecosystem are so powerful, so numerous, so finely interconnected, that although the damage they do is clear, it is very difficult to discover how it was done. By which weapon? In whose hand? Are we driving the ecosphere to destruction simply by our growing numbers? By our greedy accumulation of wealth? Or are the machines which we have built to gain this wealth-the magnificent technology that now feeds us out of neat packages, that clothes us in man-made fibers, that surrounds us with new chemical creations-at fault?”

“Material abundance without character is the surest way to destruction.”

Way Character Wealth Materials Destruction Abundance

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“I closed the gulf of anarchy and brought order out of chaos. I rewarded merit regardless of birth or wealth, wherever I found it. I abolished feudalism and restored equality to all regardless of religion and before the law. I fought the decrepit monarchies of the Old Regime because the alternative was the destruction of all this. I purified the Revolution.”

Law Order Found Wealth Revolution Birth Destruction Chaos Alternatives Merit Anarchy Regimes Monarchy Feudalism Decrepit

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Seventy-five percent of our energy around the earth is being poured into war efforts. Are we servants of death and destruction? This 75 percent of energy could be poured into life, into the service of life-and there will be laughter, and there will be greater health, and there will be more wealth, more food. There will be no poverty. There is no need for poverty to exist at all.”

Needs War Motivational Earth Energy Wealth Effort Poverty Five Greater Laughter Percent Destruction Servant Seventies

Author:Rajneesh

“The destruction of the inducement to invest by an excessive liquidity-preference was the outstanding evil, the prime impediment to the growth of wealth, in the ancient and medieval worlds.”

World Evil Growth Wealth Destruction Ancient Prime Preference Outstanding Medieval Impediments Liquidity

Book:The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes

Source: The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes

“No decision in business provides greater potential for the creation of wealth (or its destruction, come to think of it) than the choice of which innovation to back.”

Thinking Choices Wealth Decision Greater Creation Destruction Innovation

Author:Robert Heller

“They’re a nasty bunch of people. The Riot Club’s sole purpose is to celebrate wealth, elitism, hedonism, and excess - just random acts of destruction and chauvinism, which is interesting because our Prime Minister, our Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Mayor of London were are a part of this club.”

People Purpose Wealth Interesting Destruction Clubs London Bunch Celebrate Ministers Prime Excess Sole Nasty Prime Minister Riot Mayors Elitism Hedonism Chauvinism

Author:Max Irons

“Religion looks forward to the destruction of the world.... Perhaps half aware that its unsupported arguments are not entirely persuasive, and perhaps uneasy about its own greedy accumulation of temporal power and wealth, religion has never ceased to proclaim the Apocalypse and the day of judgment.”

World Looks Wealth Half Judgment Argument Destruction Apocalypse Greedy Accumulation Uneasy Persuasive

Book:God is Not Great

Source: God is Not Great

“War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.”

Doe War Causes Wealth Results Money Economic Destruction Increase Goods Anti War Antiwar No War Peace Not War

Author:Ludwig von Mises

“The Wickans know that the gift of power is never free. They know enough not to envy the chosen among them, for power is never a game, nor are glittering standards raised to glory and wealth. They disguise nothing in trappings, and so we all see what we'd rather not, that power is cruel, hard as iron and bone, and thrives on destruction. ~ Deadhouse Gates”

Knows Hard Enough Games Wealth Glory Standards Destruction Raised Bones Envy Chosen Thrive Iron Gates Disguise

Author:Steven Erikson

“A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life.”

Ifs Life Humans Said Science Wealth Existence Development Destruction Accounts Inequality Human Life Distribution Accentuate Distribution Of Wealth

Author:G. H. Hardy

“Increase in the wealth per capita fosters democracy; but the latter, at least according to what we have been able to observe up to now, entails great destruction of wealth and even eventually dries up the sources of it. Hence it is its own grave-digger, it destroys what gave it birth.”

Has Beens Able Wealth Democracy Source Birth Destruction Increase Graves Latter

Book:Manual of political economy

Source: Manual of political economy

“This health-care plan is all about the destruction of the creation of wealth in America and the socialization of this country, and it won't work - never has anywhere else - and we're going to go to the mat here to see to it that they don't succeed.”

Country Care America Wealth Plans Creation Succeed Destruction Health Care Socialization

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“What is crucial to your survival as a race is not the redistribution of power and wealth within the prison but rather the destruction of the prison itself.”

Wealth Race Survival Destruction Prison Crucial Redistribution Of Wealth

Author:Daniel Quinn

“All cultures forged by nations—the noble indigenous past of America, the brilliant civilization of Europe, the wise history of Asian nations, and the ancestral wealth of Africa and Oceania—are corroded by the American way of life. In this way, neoliberalism imposes the destruction of nations and groups of nations in order to reconstruct them according to a single model. This is a planetary war, of the worst and cruelest kind, waged against humanity.”

“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.”