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  • America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

  • We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love. I am a specialist, God help me, in events in inner space and time, in experiences called thoughts, images, reveries, dreams, visions, hallucinations, dreams of memories, memories of dreams, memories of visions, dreams of hallucinations, refractions of refractions of refractions of that original Alpha and Omega of experience and reality, that Reality on whose repression, denial, splitting, projection, falsification, and general desecration and profanation our civilisation as much as anything is based.

    R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”
  • Even if this is the end of humankind, we dare not take away the chances some other life-form might have to succeed where we failed. If we retaliate, there will not be a dog, a deer, an ape, a bird or fish or lizard to carry the evolutionary torch. In the name of justice, if we must condemn and destroy ourselves, let us not condemn all life along with us! We are heavy enough with sins. If we must destroy, let us stop with destroying ourselves!

    Dog   Names   Justice  
  • Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

  • We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.

  • We don't need the Nazis to destroy us. We're destroying ourselves.

    "Fictional character: Otto Frank". "The Diary of Anne Frank". Biography, www.imdb.com. 1959.
  • I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

    Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.43, Hackett Publishing
  • You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.

  • We are the environment. The world is literally one biological process. The trees are our lungs. Look at the Amazon River system next to a human cardiovascular system, look at corals or trees and look at our lungs, you literally cannot tell the difference. They’re the same. So when we destroy our environment, we’re effectively destroying ourselves.

    FaceBook post by Ian Somerhalder from Dec 26, 2012
  • We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.

    Politics of Experience (1967) ch. 3
  • The growing possibility of our destroying ourselves and the world with our own neglect and excess is tragic and very real.

    Real   Excess   World  
  • There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.

    Pain   Bipolar   Trying  
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