"Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is."

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"Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is."

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"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."

Henry Cabot Lodge, American Politician

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"Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction."

George W. Bush, American President

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"The more we are consuming oil that either comes from places that are bent on our destruction or helping those who are... the more we are enabling those who are trying to kill us."

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"Note the three most important Cabinet positions. Rice said that it was better to find the weapons of mass destruction than to see a mushroom cloud."

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"Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction of some 300,000 acres of wetlands. This amounted to 30 miles of marshlands."

Mortimer Zuckerman, Canadian Publisher

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"There is little doubt that Iran is on a mission to rebuild its nuclear weapons and use that capability to wreak havoc and destruction on Israel and others throughout the world."

Russ Carnahan, American Politician

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"Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip."

Richard Steele, British Dramatist

Destruction, Fire, Gossip, Tongue

"One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line."

William J. Clinton, American President

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"The passion for destruction is also a creative passion."

Mikhail Bakunin, Russian Revolutionary

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"He wanted to grind every Federation world into dust beneath his boot as his army blazed a trail of blood and corpses all the way to Seneca.He wanted to storm their inner sanctum and fire a laser into the skull of their Field Marshal while their Chairman watched, then fire a laser into the skull of their Chairman.He wanted to burn their bodies on a pyre and carry the ashes back to Deucali and spread them on his mother's consecrated grave."

G.S. Jennsen, American Author

Destruction, Violence, War, Power

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