At a time when unbridled greed malignant aggression and existence of weapons of mass destruction threatens the survival of humanity we should seriously consider any avenue that offers some hope.
I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall sowing the seeds of their own destruction.
I'm as obsessive with health as I was with destruction.
Who is there that ever receives a gift and tries to make bargains about it? Let us then return thanks for what He has bestowed on us. Who can tell whether if we had had a larger share of ability or stronger health we should not have possessed them to our destruction.
Mental agitations and eating cares are more injurious to health and destructive of life than is commonly imagined and could their effects be collected would make no inconsiderable figure in the bills of mortality.
In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one and not to strive towards it.
The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
Thought is subversive and revolutionary destructive and terrible Thought is merciless to privilege established institutions and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.
If the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government.
I've been in and out of Wall Street since 1949 and I've never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I'm not sure where it comes from but I suspect it's got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.
If Bush as I believe has reliable information on the fact that Saddam Hussein is making weapons of mass destruction I cannot not support the policies of his government.
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only object of good government.
When God desires to destroy a thing he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
The Marshall Plan was after destruction and the U.S. came to our help and obviously this was very very important for the future of Europe. I think now we have all the capabilities of doing it on our own and in a sense we have to.
We would fight not for the political future of a distant city rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and security for the peoples of the earth.
Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the twentieth century - freedom against Communism - so too it is largely on the sidelines in our contemporary struggles against international terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.