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Many later commented on the fact that large numbers of those engaged in the most senseless acts of destruction were left well alone by cops, indeed people dressed as Black Block members were seen freely making their way across police lines and talking to cops.

John Blair

Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.

Louis Mumford

Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.

Warren Buffett

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

Pablo Picasso

Spanish painter and sculptor (1881-1973)

Number one, that it is smart to communicate and negotiate with your enemy instead of just waging war with bombs and weapons of mass destruction.

Theodore C. Sorensen

I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources.

Yvon Chouinard

American mountain climber

Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative force in civilization, a process began which was almost mechanical.

Ralph A. Cram

Thanks to farm subsidies, the fine collaboration between agribusiness and Congress, soy, corn and cattle became king. And chicken soon joined them on the throne. It was during this period that the cycle of dietary and planetary destruction began, the thing we’re only realizing just now.

Mark Bittman

American journalist, food writer

You should issue demerits for tree cutting or the destruction of humus.

Donella Meadows

American environmental scientist, teacher, and writer

So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.

James Dickey

American writer

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