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Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago… had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

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

John Dalton’s records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

Dalton’s records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

For instance, in the name of unity. You can’t build without destroying.

None can destroy iron, but its own rust can! Likewise, none can destroy a person, but their own mindset can.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer – and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.