Destruction Prevention Quotes

The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.

My goal is for a cooperative world at peace, using its resources to build, not to destroy.

A Law of Nature, (Lex Naturalis) is a Precept, or general Rule, found out by Reason, by which a man is forbidden to do, that, which is destructive of his life, or taketh away the means of preserving the same; and to omit, that, by which he thinketh it may be best preserved.

We are the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.

Anytime we can save lives or prevent the destruction of property, we should do it.

Mindful consumption is the object of this precept. We are what we consume. If we look deeply into the items that we consume every day, we will come to know our own nature very well. We have to eat, drink, consume, but if we do it unmindfully, we may destroy our bodies and our consciousness, showing ingratitude toward our ancestors, our parents, and future generations.

Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.

I dream ...of a world where we can commit our social resources to the development of human life and not to its destruction

Anything that reduces war-related destruction should not be considered altogether immoral.

A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.

We have a shared destiny, a shared responsibility to save the world from those who attempt to destroy it.

We have looked first at man with his vanities and greed and his problems of a day or a year; and then only, and from this biased point of view, we have looked outward at the earth he has inhabited so briefly and at the universe in which our earth is so minute a part. Yet these are the great realities, and against them we see our human problems in a different perspective. Perhaps if we reversed the telescope and looked at man down these long vistas, we should find less time and inclination to plan for our own destruction.