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Last updated on November 20, 2024.
It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction.
If a farmer does abandon his or her "tame" fields completely to nature, mistakes and destruction are inevitable.
War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.
If Darwin had seen in life what Dostoevsky saw, he would not have talked of the law of the preservation of species, but of its destruction.
Let us not let the world be defined by the destruction wrought by one virus, but illuminated by billions of hearts and minds working in unity.
I think it makes people in the Pentagon kind of nervous to know that chemical agents and environmental factors could cause so much damage in terms of what may happen in the future.
Even in heavenly pleasures he finds no satisfaction, the disciple who is fully awakened delights only in the destruction of all desires.
The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.
I think future engineered species could be the source of food, hopefully a source of energy, environmental remediation and perhaps replacing the petrochemical industry.
To be quite honest with you, a lot of people don't realize that Nikki Sixx and I did Brides of Destruction after the lawsuit.
I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.
Very urgent measures need to be taken, and without much delay, in dealing with the ongoing destruction of the environment.
It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.
The BP spill was the greatest environmental catastrophe in U.S. history. Yet somehow, gas companies like BP and Halliburton ran interference on reporting that story.
American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.
Destruction of the embryo in the mother's womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed upon this nascent life.
It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.
A token of ecological awareness in a society devoted to self destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways.
Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?
It is the faith and perseverance and single-mindedness with which Hitler has perfected his weapons of destruction that commands my admiration.
I think that you can disagree with people and debate over their positions with issues without engaging in the politics of personal destruction.
As an environmental scientist, I think our first need is to feed and shelter and nurture. That has always required the exploitation of plant life, and it always will.
Isolation, you know, carries the seeds of its own destruction because as times change, other things seep in.
To Jane Jacob’s three traditional urban values of civic space, human scale and diversity, the current environmental imperative adds two more: conservation and regionalism.
My family, they cannot have anything to do with us. They believe that, you know, their duty is to deliver me to Satan for the destruction of the flesh.
The potential in many environmental issues is that if you undertake corrective action without appropriate understanding of the problem, then you wind up doing more harm than good.
When I look back on the townscapes now, they do seem to me to recall certain images of the destruction of Dresden during the war.
A riot's unchecked destruction of livelihoods and property is certainly newsworthy, threatening as it does the very possibility of civilization.
No man need go blindly to destruction, for God has given him guidance and power of seeing whither he goes.
From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change.
They watch on, evil, incredibly stupid, enjoying my destruction. 'Poor Grendel's had an accident,' I whisper. 'So may you all.
The first kind of evil is that which is caused to man by the circumstance that he is subject to genesis and destruction, or that he possesses a body.
As I have said throughout, I have no doubt that they will find the clearest possible evidence of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction.
Mankind's self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order.
The Hamas organization is explicitly dedicated to the destruction of Israel. That is not a rhetorical gimmick; it is its declared unwavering primary goal.
Our overriding environmental challenge tonight is the worldwide problem of climate change, global warming, the gathering crisis that requires worldwide action.
Constructive destruction is one of the most delightful employments in the world, and in civilized life the opportunities for it are only too rare.
A human body is associated with six stages of transformation, birth, growth, change, evolution, death and destruction.
We have a project with Unocal here in Los Angeles, where we as an environmental organization, the oil company, and the state all get together to promote the recycling of used motor oil.
When you don't work together you can't emerge as a force. It becomes what some call a "lonely struggle" and individual self-destruction.
Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders.
Under the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Program, homes are independently verified to be measurably more energy efficient than average houses.
E-waste is the fastest growing waste stream in the United States and can pose serious environmental and health problems here and around the world when not handled properly.
As a literary device, sugar and pastry carried so many nuances - the sweetness of the past, the danger of overeating and addiction, the political and environmental devastation of plantations - it was just what a book needed.
Land is a great example of how we can manage and invest in sustainable infrastructure for economic, social, and environmental gains. Its use - and misuse - is at the heart of the challenge for food, fuel, and fibre.
For some reason focusing on destruction and mortality is more poetically exciting to me than hope and love.
Did the destruction of one dream leave a vacuum that required filling with another? Is a broken heart more vulnerable?
The mortal world is in a state of Beautiful Chaos and destruction, which will ultimately lead to an exquisite end.
What causes autism? As far as we know in 2013, there is no single gene or single environmental factor that accounts for the more than 1 million Americans with ASDs.
The intelligence community was absolutely uniform and uniformly wrong about the existence of weapons of mass destruction (in Iraq).
I embrace a Green New Deal; I just think we have to have public-private partnerships if we're going to get there. We have to align the environmental incentives with the financial incentives.
Any country on the face of the Earth with an active intelligence program knows that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction.
They seemed to forget that the increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment and growth of the arts; not their dimination or destruction.
Given the long history of global anti-Semitism and continued calls for the destruction of Israel, it's tough to be a Jew.
I am only a child. Yet I know that if all the money spent on war was spent on ending poverty and finding environmental answers, what a wonderful place this would be.
If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be too late. The future is not determined and it lies in our own hands.
The fear of criticism is at the bottom of the destruction of most ideas which never reach the planning and action stage.
The choices and decisions we make in terms of how we use the land ultimately affect our very DNA. Environmental issues are life issues.
We can not have equilibrium in this world with the current inequality and destruction of Mother Earth. Capitalism is what is causing this problem and it needs to end.
Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term.