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"A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent."
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"We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create."
"You know what killed off the dinosaurs, Whateley? We did. In one barbecue."
"I have seen enough. I am ready to see the world die."
"It was like the beginning of the end of the world."
"Who knew, or cared, the names of the Turks who blew the roof off the Parthenon? the mullahs who had ordered the destruction of the Buddhas at Bamiyan? Yet living or dead: their acts stood. It was the worst kind of immortality. Intentionally or no: I had extinguished a light at the heart of the world."
"Covetousness gives birth to violence, while violence gives birth to oppression."
"Society establishment minus laws of God equals chaos and destruction."
"Kronos would be 10 times more powerful. His very presence would incinerate you. And once he achieves this he will empower the other Titans. They are weak, compared to what they soon will become, unless you can stop them, the world will fall, the gods will die, and I will never achieve a perfect score on this stupid machine."
"We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction."
"It sets its face rightfully against the doctrines of the Anarchist and the Communist, who seek to solve the social problems not by patient endeavor, but by brutal destruction."
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"Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world."
"Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins."
"There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them."
"What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically."
"I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."
"Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings."
"That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it."
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