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The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
George Orwell
War
Destruction
Labor
Essential
Human
Act
Products
Lives
Necessarily
I do not want our children and grandchildren to live in a world where everyday they fear some regional strongman with weapons of mass destruction. We need to send a message to these future would-be bullies: you will not be allowed to threaten the world.
George Voinovich
Future
You
World
Destruction
Fear
Will
Live
Everyday
Our
Would-Be
Weapons
Threaten
Some
Allowed
Mass
Mass Destruction
Message
Bullies
Send
Where
Children
Want
Grandchildren
Regional
Need
Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction.
George W. Bush
Destruction
Free
Other
Weapons
Attack
Develop
Mass
Mass Destruction
Nations
Each
Peaceful
So much of the habitat destruction and pollution is based on the simple principle that we somehow have been given free license over other species to degrade the planet.
Greg Graffin
Destruction
Simple
Free
Habitat
Other
License
Degrade
Somehow
Given
Over
Principle
Been
Pollution
Much
Planet
Based
Species
Before language, cavemen simply grunted, and then they used the club. Communication changed that. It's the mechanism that created civilization and prevents its own destruction.
Greg Gutfeld
Communication
Destruction
Language
Before
Own
Club
Changed
Civilization
Prevents
Simply
Then
Created
Used
Mechanism
As soon as I heard there were people in Germany who wanted to restore the old part of Dresden, I wanted to help. Even before the Nobel, I had started this group, the Friends of Dresden. The destruction of Dresden made a big impression on me when I was a child, and I wanted to do this.
Gunter Blobel
Me
People
Destruction
Old
Made
Big
Before
Group
Restore
Had
Part
Nobel
Soon
Were
Heard
Impression
Friends
Germany
Child
Wanted
Help
Who
Even
Started
Bombing, particularly from the perspective of the receiving end, is not 'communication.' Bombs result in death and destruction.
H. R. McMaster
Death
Communication
Destruction
Result
Perspective
Particularly
End
Bombing
Bombs
Receiving
Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.
Hans Kung
Destruction
Poverty
Increasingly
Our
Hundreds
Our Planet
Hunger
Unemployment
Families
Human
Human Beings
Planet
Beings
Suffer
Millions
All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage.
Harold Pinter
Destruction
Unless
Collateral
American
Human
Human Beings
Happens
Beings
Damage
Iran rejects weapons of mass destruction based on its belief system, its religious belief system, as well as well as its ethical standpoint.
Hassan Rouhani
Destruction
System
Religious
Religious Belief
Weapons
Mass
Mass Destruction
Well
Iran
Ethical
Standpoint
Belief
Based
Rejects
Since the 1970s, we have witnessed the forces of market fundamentalism strip education of its public values, critical content, and civic responsibilities as part of its broader goal of creating new subjects wedded to consumerism, risk-free relationships, and the destruction of the social state.
Henry Giroux
Education
Destruction
Values
State
Market
Relationships
Broader
Strip
Critical
Responsibilities
Civic
Consumerism
Part
Since
New
Forces
Content
Witnessed
Goal
Subjects
Public
Social
Creating
Fundamentalism
The destruction of our environment and resources cannot be stemmed unless the growth of the world's population is stemmed and ultimately reduced.
Henry W. Kendall
World
Destruction
Our
Resources
Unless
Stemmed
Environment
Reduced
Ultimately
Cannot
Population
Growth
Anything that reduces war-related destruction should not be considered altogether immoral.
Herman Kahn
Destruction
Considered
Immoral
Altogether
Anything
Should
Throughout that period, Japan had made honest efforts to keep the destruction of war from spreading and, based on the belief that all nations of the world should find their places, had followed a policy designed to restore an expeditious peace between Japan and China.
Hideki Tojo
War
Peace
World
Destruction
Made
All Nations
Find
Followed
Restore
Throughout
Had
Between
Period
Policy
Spreading
Efforts
Nations
China
Places
Japan
Should
Belief
Keep
Based
Designed
Honest
Thus, it was to seek true civilization and true justice for all the peoples of the world, and to view this as the destruction of personal freedom and respect is to be assailed by the hatred and emotion of war, and to make hasty judgments.
Hideki Tojo
War
Freedom
Justice
Respect
People
World
Destruction
Hatred
Hasty
Seek
Civilization
Emotion
True
Thus
Make
Judgments
Personal
Personal Freedom
View
I've gotten a firsthand view at the destruction that black men and black women not being able to stay and build healthy relationships has had on the black family and black children.
Hill Harper
Family
Women
Destruction
Black
Men
Build
Healthy
Relationships
Stay
Black Family
Able
Had
Firsthand
Gotten
Being
Children
View
Iran is actively pursuing the development of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles.
Howard Berman
Destruction
Weapons
Pursuing
Development
Mass
Mass Destruction
Missiles
Ballistic
Iran
Actively
He who fears is literally delivered to destruction.
Howard Thurman
Destruction
Fears
Delivered
He
Literally
Who
The experience in Iraq has taken away the essential trust which political leaders need before embarking on military action. It was meant to be about weapons of mass destruction rather than regime change. Unfortunately, the nation was misled, and secret service information was misused.
Jacob Rees-Mogg
Service
Change
Trust
Experience
Destruction
Political
Nation
Before
Action
Military
Secret
Embarking
Weapons
About
Rather
Taken
Misled
Leaders
Mass
Mass Destruction
Misused
Iraq
Political Leaders
Than
Essential
Information
Unfortunately
Which
Regime
Meant
Meant To Be
Military Action
Away
Need
Ever since the destruction of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258, the Muslim world has been in slow decline relative to the west. With Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and the creeping British annexation of Muslim India, that decline took on a malign aspect.
James Buchan
World
Destruction
Slow
Took
Relative
Has-Been
Muslim
Muslim World
India
Invasion
Baghdad
Since
Napoleon
Been
West
Malign
Egypt
Decline
Aspect
Ever
British
Creeping
I'm in favor of destruction, aggression, hating things. Not bearing things anymore. We think the breakdown comes because our life is in bad shape. But maybe the ideas cause the disorder. Something tries to break through and causes the disorder.
James Hillman
Life
Destruction
Cause
Think
Our
Favor
Bad
Tries
Hating
Something
Bearing
Through
Shape
Ideas
Because
Causes
Maybe
Anymore
Break
Breakdown
Aggression
Disorder
Things
The Hamas organization is explicitly dedicated to the destruction of Israel. That is not a rhetorical gimmick; it is its declared unwavering primary goal.
James Howard Kunstler
Destruction
Organization
Gimmick
Primary
Primary Goal
Unwavering
Israel
Hamas
Goal
Rhetorical
Explicitly
Dedicated
No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic.
James Larkin
Fight
Construction
Women
Destruction
Men
Men And Women
Shall
Empire
Irish
Republic
Race
England
British
British Empire
Starvation and disease are the original weapons of mass destruction. When you burn fields and kill animals, people are left vulnerable.
James Nachtwey
You
People
Destruction
Animals
Starvation
Weapons
Mass
Mass Destruction
Vulnerable
Left
Disease
Burn
Fields
Original
Within minutes of the attack, your Department of Public Safety mobilized its Operations Center, headed by a national expert on weapons of mass destruction.
Jane D. Hull
Destruction
Safety
National
Weapons
Minutes
Attack
Headed
Mass
Mass Destruction
Operations
Within
Department
Center
Expert
Public
Your
Public Safety
Meat production is one of the leading causes of climate change because of the destruction of the rainforest for grazing lands, the massive amounts of methane produced by farm animals and the huge amounts of water, grain and other resources required to feed animals.
Jane Velez-Mitchell
Change
Water
Destruction
Animals
Farm
Other
Resources
Feed
Leading
Massive
Because
Climate
Climate Change
Causes
Huge
Huge Amounts
Grain
Produced
Lands
Required
Production
Meat
Amount
Grazing
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