Destroying Quotes

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Destroying green belt agricultural land for immediate economic gain is like burning your children's inheritance to cook a single meal — Phil Harding
It's a topsy-turvy world in which a country can import the same amount of ice-cream, toilet paper and other goods to trading partners as it… — Andrew Simms
In Kentucky, we're destroying mountains, including their soils and forests, in order to get at the coal. In other words, we're destroying a permanent value… — Wendell Berry
... it is not a crisis of our environs or surroundings; it is a crisis of our lives as individuals, as family members, as community… — Wendell Berry
Time is, in fact, a cross to bear, it passes on inexorably and remorselessly, destroying everything in its wake, save art and works of the… — Harrison Schmitt
Children are our future and if we use them in battle, we are destroying the future. We must reclaim them, every one of them, one… — Kofi Annan
We butchered the force present at the airport, we are destroying them. — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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… — Chris Hedges
In a way, Che Guevara's fate was far worse than Simon Bolivar's. Guevara's collapse was complete: his intentions were forgotten, but his style was taken… — Paul Theroux
We establish a connection with the unknown through the act of giving something and, paradoxically, the act of destroying something. That is what is behind… — Roberto Calasso
Therefore, in my incontrovertible capacity as plaintiff and defendant judge and accused, I condemn this nature, which has so brazenly and unceremoniously inflicted this suffering...… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet. Unfortunately there are countries who are still destroying it,… — Steve Irwin
The only thing on my mind is getting into that ring and destroying a boxing myth, someone who has reached a level of infamy through… — David Haye
The majority of those who are loosely identified by the term 'liberals' are afraid to let themselves discover that what they advocate is statism. They… — Ayn Rand
The growing possibility of our destroying ourselves and the world with our own neglect and excess is tragic and very real. — Billy Graham
I am convinced that those who get themselves involved in the machinery of power politics, even for the purpose of destroying it, are bound to… — Vinoba Bhave
Writing is both bomb and bomb disposal-a necessary shattering of cliche and assumption, and a powerful defusing of the soul-destroying messages of modern life (that… — Jeanette Winterson
Destroying a tropical rainforest for profit is like burning all the paintings of the Louvre to cook dinner. — E. O. Wilson
That soul-destroying, meaningless, mechanical, moronic work is an insult to human nature which must necessarily and inevitably produce either escapism or aggression, and that no… — E F Schumacher
Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I… — Jiddu Krishnamurti

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