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Have any of our friends got off the Island with their families, or what must they submit to? Despotism or destruction, I fear, is their fate.
In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
More than any other beauty (though it is true of all beauty except in art) passion seems to me to have the seeds of its own destruction in it.
A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.
Let us not let the world be defined by the destruction wrought by one virus, but illuminated by billions of hearts and minds working in unity.
Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships.
Governments do not know what they cannot do until after they cease to be governments. Each government carries the seeds of its own destruction.
I think that you can disagree with people and debate over their positions with issues without engaging in the politics of personal destruction.
The world has been gradually reducing its nuclear arsenals. Testing must stop so that progress on the destruction of nuclear weapons may begin.
You can have a lot of destruction, but in a realistic female movie, the women are going to be aware of that destruction and apologizing for it.
I don't think people understand the awesomeness of the destruction of this country - its institutions, its infrastructure, its law, its morals.
Number one, that it is smart to communicate and negotiate with your enemy instead of just waging war with bombs and weapons of mass destruction.
Hamas, Hezbollah, and other Arab terror groups are committed to the destruction of Israel, a position supported by millions in the Muslim world.
A riot's unchecked destruction of livelihoods and property is certainly newsworthy, threatening as it does the very possibility of civilization.
Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.
The destruction of our environment and resources cannot be stemmed unless the growth of the world's population is stemmed and ultimately reduced.
I am part of a network of people monitoring what's happening at ancient sites in Iraq and Syria - from space. We can see clearly the destruction.
Saddam Hussein has openly admitted to the rest of the world that he had weapons of mass destruction. He used those weapons to kill his own people.
When people were selling the politics of fear and division and destruction, we were talking about hope. We were talking about the politics of joy.
Note the three most important Cabinet positions. Rice said that it was better to find the weapons of mass destruction than to see a mushroom cloud.
Sun-bleached bones were most wonderful against the blue - that blue that will always be there as it is now after all man's destruction is finished.
It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.
Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction.
The alliance should agree... to an effective NATO role against the new threats presented by international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.
What my enemies call a general peace is my destruction. What I call peace is merely the disarmament of my enemies. Am I not more moderate than they?
There is nothing we value and hunt and cultivate and strive to draw to us, but in some hour we turn and rend it.
Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.
destruction is ultimately self-destruction.
I believe in conversion of mankind, not its destruction.
Only after disaster can we be resurrected.
The passion for destruction is also a creative passion.
A soul, therefore, when deprived of the Word of God, is given up unarmed to the devil for destruction
The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
The propagandistic American 'media' and the crazed neoconservatives have set humanity on the path to destruction.
The destruction of all Shadowhunters' said Scott. 'I rather thought you knew that. It isn't a gardening club.
... mutual lack of understanding carries the threat of imminent and violent destruction.
Saddam Hussein is a homicidal dictator who is addicted to weapons of mass destruction.
'Cyberwar' has nothing to do with the destruction brought about by bombs and grenades and so on.
Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another.
I had to escape the destruction of my father's bankruptcy and all that difficulty.
Weapons of mass destruction - nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons - are just that, and no cause can excuse their use.
The American Republic was bound - is still bound - to follow in the centuries to come the same course to destruction as did Rome.
The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.
War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.
Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children.
We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
I hold that without truth and nonviolence there can be nothing but destruction of humanity.
... but it is human to be outraged by injustice, even to the point of courting destruction!
Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction.
Destruction of the churches and the like is not the way to Swaraj as defined by the Congress.