#destruction

They have nothing to give. They have no power of making. All their power is to darken and destroy. They cannot leave this place; they are this place; and it should be left to them. They should not be denied nor forgotten, but neither should they be worshiped. The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks dying in the green meadows. The mountains clench their great hands full of hidden fire. There are sharks in the sea, and there is cruelty in men’s eyes. And where men worship these things and abase themselves before them, there evil breeds; there places are made in the world where darkness gathers, places given over wholly to the Ones whom we call Nameless, the ancient and holy Powers of the Earth before the Light, the powers of the dark, of ruin, of madness… I think they drove your priestess Kossil mad a long time ago; I think she has prowled these caverns as she prowls the labyrinth of her own self, and now she cannot see the daylight any more. She tells you that the Nameless Ones are dead; only a lost soul, lost to truth, could believe that. They exist. But they are not your Masters. They never were. You are free, Tenar. You were taught to be a slave, but you have broken free. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#sci-fi #beauty

War is the science of destruction. ↗

— John Abbott

#science #war

Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope. The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#coming #confrontation #consequences #costly #destruction

When you put gas in your car you are making a political statement, because you are supporting the empires that control and continue the destruction of some countries. ↗

— Javier Bardem

#car #continue #control #countries #destruction

Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#destruction #elect #let us #must #ourselves

The aggressive, unprovoked acts of violence against Israel by Hezbollah and Hamas are revealing. It is clear they don't want peace, but rather seek the ultimate destruction of Israel. ↗

— John Boehner

#against #aggressive #clear #destruction #hamas

The German decision to fight is implacable. Even if they were given more than they ask, they would attack just the same, because they are possessed by the demon of destruction. ↗

— Galeazzo Ciano

#attack #because #decision #demon #destruction

It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. ↗

— David Hume

#destruction #finger #prefer #reason #scratching

We are reflections of one another, therefore I know that you are part of me and I am part of you because we are all projections of the universal principles of creation/destruction polarities of the same infinite consciousness that we call God. ↗

— David Icke

#another #because #call #consciousness #creation

In the Atlantean period there were many energies being used and information and knowledge being used which were, for particular reasons of safety, withdrawn, shall we say, to prevent complete catastrophe, to prevent total destruction of your planet. ↗

— David Icke

#being used #catastrophe #complete #destruction #energies