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• Faced with destruction, the Jewish people survived.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Survived, Destruction

• Our task, your task… is to try to connect the dots before something happens. People say, ‘Well, where’s the smoking gun?’ Well, we don’t want to see a smoking gun from a weapon of mass destruction.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Weapons, Destruction

• Liberals should not overplay this weapons of mass destruction card, because you want me to tell you the truth? Most of us are not going to care if they don’t find these weapons of mass destruction. It’s enough for a lot of us to see those kids smiling on that street again.

  Dennis Miller

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Destruction

• When they show the destruction of society on color TV, I want to be able to look out over Los Angeles and make sure they get it right.

  Phil Ochs

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Destruction

• There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Topics in Risk

  Tags in Destruction, Them

• Information from destructive activities going back a hundred years right up until today is being incorporated into the system. And as that happens the underlying framework of industrialism is collapsing and causing disintegration.

  Paul Hawken

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Information, Destruction

• Marching thus at night, a battalion is doubly impressive. The silent monster is full of restrained power; resolute in its onward sweep, impervious to danger, it looks a menacing engine of destruction, steady to its goal, and certain of its mission.

  Patrick MacGill

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Destruction, Mission

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

  Bernard Dowiyogo

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nations, Destruction

• All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.

  Barbara Amiel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Destruction

• Sun-bleached bones were most wonderful against the blue – that blue that will always be there as it is now after all man’s destruction is finished.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Man, Destruction

• The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

  George Orwell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Destruction, War

• Iraq is not the only nation in the world to possess weapons of mass destruction, but it is the only nation with a leader who has used them against his own people.

  Tom Daschle

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nation, Destruction

• There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that Saddam Hussein had and used significant weapons of mass destruction on his own people, both the Kurds and the Iranians.

  Curt Weldon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Doubt, Destruction

• Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves.

  George Haven Putnam

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government, Dungeons, Destruction

• I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew that many great and wise people felt the same way about it.

  George Grosz

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Humanists, Atmosphere, Destruction

• But I want to just caution, it is not incumbent on the United States to prove that Saddam Hussein is trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction. He’s already demonstrated that he’s trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Prove, Trying, Destruction

• The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

  Simone Weil

  Topics in Past

  Tags in Destruction

• It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.

  E. T. A. Hoffmann

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Destruction, Process

• I am opposed to both cloning and the destruction of human embryos and adamantly opposed to funding of embryonic stem cell research.

  Sandy Adams

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Destruction

• Instead of a few hundreds of thousands of men meeting each other in war, millions would now meet, and modern weapons would multiply manifold the power of destruction.

  Edward Grey

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Modern, Weapons, Destruction