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Destruction Quotes by Wendell Berry
- With its array of gadgets and machines, all powered by energies that are destructive of land or air or water, and connected to work, market,…
- To be well used, creatures and places must be used sympathetically, just as they must be known sympathetically to be well known...The "animal scientist" to…
- If one accepts the 24th and 104th Psalms as scriptural norms, then surface mining and other forms of earth destruction are perversions. If we take the…
- WE ARE DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY - I mean our country itself, our land. This is a terrible thing to know, but it is not a…
- Our destruction of nature is not just bad stewardship, or stupid economics, or a betrayal of family responsibility; it is the most horrid blasphemy. It…
- Can we actually suppose that we are wasting, polluting, and making ugly this beautiful land for the sake of patriotism and the love of God?…
- It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought…
- People who blame the Bible for the modern destruction of nature have failed to see its delight in the variety and individuality of creatures and…
- Our politics and science have never mastered the fact that people need more than to understand their obligation to one another and to the earth;…
- I believe until fairly recently our destructions of nature were more or less unwitting -- the by-products, so to speak, of our ignorance or weakness…
- In the loss of skill, we lose stewardship; in losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of Creation. It is…
More Destruction Quotes
- The alliance should agree... to an effective NATO role against the new threats presented by international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. — Jose Maria Aznar
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with… — Saint Augustine
- Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction. — Bernard Baruch
- The destruction of India's village system was the greatest of England's blunders. — Annie Besant
- In every language you can imagine, I've had people say 'Appetite For Destruction' is the soundtrack to their lives. I don't think… — Steven Adler
- Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction. — Theodor Adorno
- Thanks to farm subsidies, the fine collaboration between agribusiness and Congress, soy, corn and cattle became king. And chicken soon joined them… — Mark Bittman
- The threat from Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction - chemical, biological, potentially nuclear weapons capability - that threat is real. — Tony Blair
- We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction. — Aesop
- Self-conceit may lead to self destruction. — Aesop
- Criticism in good faith is good. When it's targeted solely to destruction, I'm not interested. — Andrea Bocelli