Against Quote by George Smathers

“When calamities are imminent, the judgement is first destroyed!”

— Anonymous

And while we destroy / Our children will grow / Not missing the things they'll never know / A crime against them / Against…

— Kim Wilde

Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new…

— June Jordan

The will of God prevails.

— Abraham Lincoln

If we destroy their environments and communities, we will lose the answers they have to solving our problems, and to the protection of our…

— Raul Montenegro

“Is the destruction not, rather, irrefutable proof that the catastrophes which develop, so to speak, in our hands and seem to break out suddenly…

— W.G. Sebald

“many believe their devastation will be permanent. While this feeling persists, it is difficult to recognize that it is part of a process that…

— Susan Anderson

We can say with some assurance that, although children may be the victims of fate, they will not be the victims of our neglect.

— John F. Kennedy

The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of…

— Anonymous

“For us, the lesson is that our natural fear and grief must not enable the destruction of our institutions”

— Timothy Snyder

“There are far more failures in the world due to a collapse of will than there will ever be from objectively conclusive external events.”

— Ryan Holiday

Teach us the names of what we have destroyed.

— Dana Gioia