#destruction

Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative force in civilization, a process began which was almost mechanical. ↗

— Ralph A. Cram

#been #began #beginning #civilization #class

Creation and destruction are one, to the eyes who can see beauty. And the greatest praise to India is this: not only are her people beautiful; not only are her daily life and cult beautiful; but, in the midst of the utilitarian, humanitarian, dogmatic world of the present day, she keeps on proclaiming the outstanding value of Beauty for the sake of Beauty, through her very conception of Godhead, of religion and of life. ↗

— Savitri Devi

#destruction #beauty

The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#armies #camped #destruction #entered #every

The United Nations cannot stand by and witness the destruction of the people of West Papua. ↗

— Bernard Dowiyogo

#destruction #nations #people #stand #united

The more we are consuming oil that either comes from places that are bent on our destruction or helping those who are... the more we are enabling those who are trying to kill us. ↗

— Frank Gaffney

#comes #consuming #destruction #either #enabling

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#devised #disposal #force #greatest #ingenuity

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#democracy #destruction #difference #does #holy

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

#british empire #construction #destruction #empire #england

Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#contribute #destruction #forces #side #social

We will fight race destruction through thick and thin and never CO exist voluntarily with it. ↗

— Tom Metzger

#exist #fight #never #race #thick