Air Quote by Margaret J. Wheatley

Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die.

— Margaret J. Wheatley

Constructive destruction is one of the most delightful employments in the world, and in civilized life the opportunities for it are only too rare.

— Jan Struther

The machinery of destruction is complete, poised on a hair trigger, waiting for the 'button' to be 'pushed' by some misguided or deranged human…

— Jonathan Schell

The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with us at…

— Elizabeth Kostova

Greed, accident, or malice may have harmful results, but, barring something truly apocalyptic, a resilient system can absorb such results without its overall health…

— Jamais Cascio

Everything we have developed over the last 100 years should be destroyed.

— Pentti Linkola

For the sake of my children and grandchildren, I hope that the human talent for self-destruction can be successfully controlled, or at least channelled…

— J. G. Ballard

The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals.…

— Anonymous

What destroys us is not when we fail at doing something. It's the small, tiny, little bit of hope we had that we could…

— Alexa Michalec

Today, we realize there are those actively seeking to harm us, to destroy our infrastructure and take lives.

— Dave Reichert

Until every individual feels personally responsible for the careful planning and the preservation of natural resources, the inexorable destruction will go on.

— Eda LeShan

I would argue that practices that destroy ecosystems always destroy jobs.

— Bruce Babbitt