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“To emotionally accept impending disaster, to attain the gut-level understanding that the power elite will not respond rationally to the devastation of the ecosystem, is as difficult to accept as our own mortality. The most daunting existential struggle of our time is to ingest this awful truth-intellect ually and emotionally-and continue to resist the forces that are destroying us.”

Force Difficult Understanding Levels Accepting Struggle Intellect Disaster Awful Our Time Guts Mortality Destroying Elites Existential Ecosystems Devastation

Author:Chris Hedges

“A revolution that is based on the people exercising their creativity in the midst of devastation is one of the great historical contributions of humankind.”

People Creativity Revolution Exercise Historical Contribution Midst Humankind Devastation Great Historical

Author:Grace Lee Boggs

“Suicide carries in its aftermath a level of confusion and devastation that is, for the most part, beyond description.”

Levels Suicide Confusion Description Carrie Aftermath Devastation

Book:Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide

Source: Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide

“We proceeded systematically, village by village and we destroyed the houses, filled up the wells, blew down the towers, cut down the shady trees, burned the crops and broke the reservoirs in punitive devastation.”

Wells House Politics Cutting Tree Filled Destroyed Broke Village Burned Towers Crops Devastation Reservoirs Shady Filled Up

Book:My Early Life: 1874-1904

Source: My Early Life: 1874-1904

“The severest trial of oppression is the constant outrage which one suffers at the thought of the oppressor. What Jesus discovered was how to avoid the inner devastations. His technique was to practice the opposite emotion... a man may not get his freedom or possessions back, but he's less miserable. It's a difficult lesson.”

Men May Suffering Jesus Difficult Emotion Practice Lessons Opposites Constant Possession Technique Trials Oppression Miserable Outrage Oppressors Devastation

Author:B. F. Skinner

“This visit is meant to express my closeness to our brothers and sisters who endured the suffering, loss and devastation caused by Typhoon Yolanda. Together with many people throughout the world, I have admired the heroic strength, faith and resilience demonstrated by so many Filipinos in the face of this natural disaster, and so many others.”

People World Together Faces Suffering Natural Loss Brother Resilience Disaster Heroic Brothers And Sisters Closeness Devastation Filipino Natural Disaster Typhoons

Author:Pope Francis

“There could have been more planning in New Orleans, but you look at all the devastation that happened there - have we gotten to 3,000 deaths yet? For that magnitude of a disaster, that's not all that bad.”

Looks Has Beens Happened Disaster Planning New Orleans Could Have Been Magnitude Devastation

Author:John Hickenlooper

“For what are the triumphs of war, planned by ambition, executed by violence, and consummated by devastation? The means are the sacrifice of many, the end, the bloated aggrandizement of the few.”

Mean War Ends Violence Sacrifice Ambition Triumph Devastation

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“After Sandy hit, my wife and I saw pictures of the devastation following the hurricane in the news. We immediately wanted to find a way to assist those in need.”

Way Needs Wanted Saws Wife News Following My Wife Hurricanes Devastation Sandy Those In Need

Author:Tyson Chandler

“If you look at it ecologically, deforestation is high on the list of things which bring devastation. You cut down trees to build homes, for fuel, and you end up with no trees left, and you have to move on. If you take the earth as a whole, eventually there's nowhere to move on to.”

Ifs Looks Ends Whole Home Earth Moving Left Cutting Tree Lists Fuel Devastation Deforestation

Author:Clive Anderson