Destructive Power Quotes

• Todo es destruido por su vicio particular: el poder destructor reside en el interior. El óxido destruye el hierro, las polillas destruyen la ropa, el gusano corroe la madera; pero el mayor de todos los males es la envidia, impía habitante de las almas corrompidas, que siempre fue, es y será una enfermedad consumidora.

  Menandro

  War, Iron, Clothes

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• You see, nature will do exactly what it must, and if we are a hindrance to its development, to even its destructive powers to reform itself and we are in a way, we will go.

  Ralph Steadman

  Reform, Development, Way

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• I think what's happened is that the general public has become much more aware of the destructive power of Wall Street.

  Cathy O'Neil

  Wall, Thinking, Streets

  Fuente: www.salon.com

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• Today we are going to talk about words. You know, words are containers for power. They carry creative or destructive power. They carry positive or negative power. We can choose our words and we should do it carefully.

  Joyce Meyer

  Creative, Negative, Our Words

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• Las palabras son increíbles. Las palabras son contenedores de poder. Tienen poder creativo o destructivo.

  Joyce Meyer

  Creative, Containers, Destructive

  Joyce Meyer (2002). “8 Ways to Keep the Devil Under Your Feet”

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• Queremos que nuestros hijos vivan en unos Estados Unidos que no estén agobiados por la deuda, que no estén debilitados por la desigualdad, que no estén amenazados por el poder destructivo de un planeta que se calienta.

  Barack Obama

  Children, America, Debt

  Segundo discurso de victoria en las elecciones presidenciales, pronunciado el 7 de noviembre de 2012, McCormick Place Chicago, Illinois

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• Science for the Citizen is ... also written for the large and growing number of adolescents, who realize that they will be the first victims of the new destructive powers of science misapplied.

  Lancelot Hogben

  Numbers, Citizens, Growing

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• Deterrence failed completely as a guide in setting rational limits on the size and composition of military forces, spurring an insatiable arms race with a reckless proliferation of the most destructive power ever unleashed, tailored for delivery by a vast array of vehicles to a stupefying array of targets.

  George Lee Butler

  Military, Race, Target

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• In an all-out nuclear war, more destructive power than in all of World War II would be unleashed every second during the long afternoon it would take for all the missiles and bombs to fall. A World War II every second-more people killed in the first few hours than all the wars of history put together. The survivors, if any, would live in despair amid the poisoned ruins of a civilization that had committed suicide.

  Jimmy Carter

  Suicide, War, Fall

  Estados Unidos. Presidente (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter, Estados Unidos. Oficina del Registro Federal (1982). "Jimmy Carter"

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• Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (whose mother died ten days after she was born) wrote a novel that anticipates Semmelweis's discovery and serves as a parable for the destructive power of decaying matter.

  Laura Mullen

  Mother, Discovery, Matter

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• The destructive power of a lie is stronger than the truth.

  Henry Rollins

  Lying, Stronger, Adages

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• There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force, but the destructive power of modern weapons eliminates even the possibility that war may serve as a negative good.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  War, Evil, Growth

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.109, Beacon Press

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• By rejecting faith in Jesus Christ, America has also rejected God's protective hand, which until recently, sheltered this nation from harm. We have invited the devil which all his diabolical and destructive power in our daily lives.

  Bill Bright

  Jesus, America, Hands

  Bill Bright, John N. Damoose (1998). “Red Sky in the Morning”

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• We want our children to live in an America...that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet.

  Barack Obama

  Children, World, Want

  Barack Obama's re-election speech in Chicago, www.bbc.com. November 7, 2012.

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• Our status as a free society and world power is not based on brute strength. When we've taken up arms, it has been for the defense of freedom for ourselves and for other peaceful nations who needed our help. But now, faced with the development of weapons with immense destructive power, we've no choice but to maintain ready defense forces that are second to none. Yes, the cost is high, but the price of neglect would be infinitely higher.

  Ronald Reagan

  Freedom, Taken, Choices

  Estados Unidos. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Estados Unidos. Presidente (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan, Estados Unidos. Oficina del Registro Federal (1983). "Ronald Reagan"

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• De Tocqueville considered the impulse toward well-being as one of the strongest impulses of a democratic society. He can't be blamed for underestimating the destructive powers generated by this same impulse.

  Saul Bellow

  Underestimate, Democratic, Impulse

  Saul Bellow (1976). “Herzog”, Viking Adult

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• A challenge so far-reaching in its impact and irreversible in its destructive power, that it alters radically human existence... There is no doubt that the time to act is now.

  Tony Blair

  Impact, Challenges, Doubt

  Tony Blair's Speech on the Environment and the 'Urgent Issue' of Climate Change, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2004.

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• Nos estableceremos en Palestina tanto si os gusta como si no... Podéis acelerar nuestra llegada o podéis igualmente retrasarla. Sin embargo, es mejor que nos ayudéis para evitar que nuestro poder constructivo se convierta en un poder destructivo que derroque al mundo.

  Chaim Weizmann

  World, Helping, You Like It

  Judische Rundschau, No. 4, 1920.

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• It is an art in itself to compose a starting team, finding the balance between creative players and those with destructive powers, and between defence, construction and attack – never forgetting the quality of the opposition and the specific pressures of each match.

  Rinus Michels

  Art, Team, Player

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• The United States military is now evolving geometrically as it gains experience from near-constant fighting and grafts new technology daily. Indeed, it seems to be doubling, tripling, and even quadrupling its lethality every few years. And the result is that we are outdistancing not merely the capabilities of our enemies but our allies as well - many of whom who have not fought in decades - at such a dizzying pace that our sheer destructive power makes it hard to work with others in joint operations.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Military, Fighting, Technology

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• Common grace curbs the destructive power of sin, maintains in a measure the moral order of the universe, thus making an orderly life possible, distributes in varying degrees gifts and talents among men, promotes the development of science and art, and showers untold blessings upon the children of men.

  Louis Berkhof

  Art, Children, Blessing

  Louis Berkhof (0101). “Systematic Theology”, p.551

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• Few literary depictions of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake match the intensity and visceral power of those in Flacco's gripping first novel. The author's screenwriting talent shines in this story of the earth's destructive power and humanity's moral depravity. The emerging maniacal personality, revealed in increasingly gruesome and venomous detail, rivals the Ripper.Dickens meets Hannibal Lecter. Brace yourself.

  William Bernhardt

  Earthquakes, San Francisco, Personality

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• She stared at me. "Fly, ;ole, in an airplane, which you were warned never to do lest Zeus strike you out of the sky, AND carrying a weapon that has more destructive power than a nuclear bomb?" "Yeah," I said. "Pretty much exactly like that.

  Rick Riordan

  Airplane, Sky, Nuclear

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