Accumulation Quote by Kathy Acker

When we fill our souls up with creativity, artistry and intelligence ...we have a better chance at avoiding the behavior that leads to destruction.

— Rick DellaRatta

why human beings despise what is beautiful and good, and seek to destroy the things they need the most

— David Mitchell

Sometimes we don’t realize how destructive our creations are until it’s too late. And sometimes those creations we make turn on us and seek…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity; more than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these…

— Charlie Chaplin

Our human nature likes more to destroy than to build, more to cry than to smile, and more to correct the world than to…

— Sri Chinmoy

Machinery that gives us abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness hard and unkind. We think too…

— Charlie Chaplin

“If at the moment when someone cuts us off in traffic or breaks our heart or begins bombing our ancestral village, we could withdraw…

— George Saunders

There is always a ..belief that by destroying the thing that we love we destroy our needs

— Adam Phillips

“I have for many years endeavored to make this vital truth clear; and still people marvel when I tell them that I am happy.…

— Helen Keller

In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range…

— H. G. Wells

Everyday we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read the lines written by the hand of a…

— Henry Miller

We are like coral animals embedded in a technological reef of extruded psychic objects...All our tool-making implies our belief in an ultimate tool.

— Terence McKenna