“Extremists, who thrive on conflict; who do not tolerate diversity; who seek power through division and destruction. The global system they hope to create is one of new walls and new isolation, and radically smaller horizons. It is an anti-democratic, anti-economic-growth, and anti-progress agenda.” GrowthProgressEconomicWallConflictDiversityDestructionDemocraticIsolationThriveAgendasDivisionHorizonTolerateEconomic GrowthExtremist Author:Abdallah II
“It is ironical that in an age when we have prided ourselves on our progress in the intelligent care and teaching of children we have at the same time put them at the mercy of new and most terrible weapons of destruction.” ChildrenCareAgeEducationProgressTeachingTerribleWeaponsDestructionMercyIntelligentNuclear Weapons Author:Pearl S. Buck
“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!” WorldHeartDoneFeelingsAgePastBeautifulEvilSocialExistenceProgressImpossiblePolicyWasteDestructionDistanceSurpriseSelfishTheologyCrueltyHypocrisyIntoleranceMonumentPiousDisturbanceConjunctionsWaste Of Life Author:Lydia M. Child
“I saw in States' rights the only availing check upon the absolutism of the sovereign will, and secession filled me with hope, not as the destruction but as the redemption of Democracy.... Therefore I deemed that you were fighting the battles of our liberty, our progress, and our civilization, and I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo.” StatesFightingLostLibertyDemocracySawsRightsProgressCivilizationBattleDestructionFilledSavedChecksRedemptionStakesRejoiceSovereignMournConfederateAbsolutismSecessionWaterlooStates RightsRichmond Author:Lord Acton
“All the advantages that man has gained from his ever-deepening understanding of the natural world that surrounds him, his technological, chemical and medical progress, all of which should seem to alleviate human suffering... tends instead to favor humanity's destruction.” MenWorldShouldHumansSeemsSufferingHumanityUnderstandingNaturalProgressAdvantageDestructionMedicalFavorsSurroundChemicalsTechnologicalNatural WorldAlleviateHuman Suffering Author:Konrad Lorenz
“In vulgar usage, progress has come to mean limitless movement in space and time, accompanied, necessarily, by an equally limitless command of energy: culminating in limitless destruction.” MeanEnergySpaceProgressMovementDestructionCommandVulgarTime And SpaceLimitlessUsage Book:The Pentagon of Power Source: The Pentagon of Power
“To conquer by sheer force is becoming harder and harder every day. Defensive is getting continuously the advantage of offensive, as we progress in the satanic science of destruction.” ForceProgressBecomingAdvantageDestructionHarderConquerSheerOffensiveSatanic Book:The Nikola Tesla Treasury Source: The Nikola Tesla Treasury
“All the stuff that makes life worth living is produced privately, and all that the government does is slow down the progress of civilization and bring destruction and disaster wherever it goes.” DoeGovernmentStuffProgressCivilizationDestructionDisasterSlow DownWorth LivingLife Worth Living Author:Llewellyn Rockwell
“In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.” ReasonLiteratureGrowthDifferencesProgressDestructionCelebration Book:Conversations with Audre Lorde Source: Conversations with Audre Lorde