#destruction

But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#achievement #atom #atom bomb #became #bomb

Indeed, the whole human species is endangered, by nuclear weapons or by other means of wholesale destruction which further advances in science are likely to produce. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#destruction #endangered #further #human #human species

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. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#destruction #imagine #innocent #mass #men

Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#destruction #hence #like #mandates #nature

To eat is to appropriate by destruction. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#destruction #eat

A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#always #being #constant #constantly #construction

The destruction of civilian hamlets, the killing and the wounding of civilians, became vastly greater than it had been before, and it was very upsetting; but I still couldn't bring myself to understand that the policy itself was wrong. ↗

— Neil Sheehan

#been #before #bring #civilian #civilians

Global warming, the ongoing destruction of the planet, Third World debt, the uselessness of the railways, the takeover by the corporations, the scary George Bush person: all these things are important and should be animating me into outrage. Yet somehow they do not. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#bush #corporations #debt #destruction #george

It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction. ↗

— Oliver Tambo

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This issue, if not addressed, leaves any President, including George Bush, open to the criticism that they are essentially ignoring the destruction of the nation and I believe that with all my heart. ↗

— Tom Tancredo

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