We're not destroying the world because we're clumsy. We're destroying the world because we are, in a very literal and deliberate way, at war with it.
There are millions of animal species but, man is the only animal capable of destroying them all.
Farmers since the beginning of time have been feeding the world very successfully without systematically abusing animals or destroying the environment. But we're breeding food that is less safe for us, it tastes much worse than it ever has in history, and it's wreaking havoc on the environment in a way that it never did in history before. All in the interest of it being cheap.
Illusion begets and sustains the world; we do not destroy one without destroying the other.
Capitalism is destroying the earth.
Never interfere with an enemy in the process of destroying himself.
Humans may be destroying their chances for decent survival. It won't kill everybody, but it would change the world dramatically.
Our brain is almost the same as the chimps', but we have language, we have electronic communications, we've put people on the moon - we are immensely more intelligent. And yet: how come the being with the most extraordinary intellect ever is destroying its only planet?
A scholar can hardly be better employed than in destroying a fear.
We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.
Nature is actually resilient, if we take care to just stop actively destroying it.
The minute you start keeping score, you're destroying the relationship.
The greatest honor of a man is in doing good to his fellow men, not in destroying them.
The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.
Perhaps the biggest obstacle in destroying white supremacy is the hatred and hostility that Africans have for each other.
As species are exterminated by shifting climate zones, ecosystems can collapse, destroying more species.
The movie industry is brutal. It is dangerous. It is, for most, soul destroying.
I was 11 when I was molested. It was like a nuclear explosion going off in my life, destroying everything
There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.
Inflation has. . . become the cruelest tax, destroying the value of the dollar and adding new costs to every purchase.