Quotes of: Total-destruction Keyword

If there is no way to compel those who find a majority decision distasteful to go along with it, then the last thing one would want to do is to hold a vote: a public contest which someone will be seen to lose. Voting would be the most likely means to...

Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology

In fact, meta- and particle physicists have more in common than one might suppose: both tug, if in slightly different directions, at the knots which hold the cosmos together, both look beyond the immediate world of sense perception into one where cau...

Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah

It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!

Are You My Mother?

There is a self-destructive program running in the consciousness of humanity, and we must write a new program.

Voice of Reason

We must take the money out of politics, and end psychopathic, self-destructive government and corporate madness.

Voice of Reason

The best method for preventing destructive cult involvement is preventative education. If students and the public at large are more aware of destructive groups beforehand they may better understand and resist their recruitment efforts.

Rick Ross

People like to let loose at rock concerts and it gives them an excuse to do it in a way that is not destructive to others and not really destructive to the band.

James Young

America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.

John W. Gardner

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.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.

Ward Churchill

I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.

Adam Ferrara

I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.

Dan Harmon

We hear so much about weapons of mass destruction. But nine out of 10 war victims are killed by guns. It's the AK-47 that's a weapon of mass destruction.

Andrew Niccol

So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.

James Dickey

Andrew Clark: If I lose my temper you're totaled, man. John Bender: Totally? Andrew Clark: Totally.

The Breakfast Club

I'm afraid of making a mistake. I'm not totally neurotic, but I'm pretty neurotic about it. I'm as close to totally neurotic as you can get without being totally neurotic.

Bridget Fonda

Podcasting is great. Total freedom.

Bill Burr

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty

But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.

Mockingjay

Creation and destruction are the two ends of the same moment. And everything between the creation and the next destruction is the journey of life.

The Oath of the Vayuputras

A destructive thought process exists within all of us, and we are plagued to varying degrees by an internal dialogue that is harmful, restrictive, and at its ultimate extreme, self-destructive.

Lisa Firestone