This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Richard Steele, fully Sir Richard Steele
Fire and sword are but slow engines of destruction in comparison with the babbler.
Wisdom |
Calvin Trillin, fully Calvin "Bud" Marshall Trillin
There are a lot of ways wars can end - a truce, a surrender, the complete destruction of the planet - but there’s no established way to end a correspondence.
Lao Tzu, ne Li Urh, also Laotse, Lao Tse, Lao Tse, Lao Zi, Laozi, Lao Zi, La-tsze
Would you like to liberate yourself from the lower realms of life? Would you like to save the world from degradation and destruction it seems destined for? Then step away from the shallow mass movements and quietly go to work on your own self-awareness. If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself... Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.
Awareness | Humanity | Life | Life | Self | Self-awareness | Work | World |
Helen Keller. aka Helen Adams Keller
No loss by flood and lightning, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature has deprived man of so many noble lives and impulses as those which his intolerance has destroyed.
Intolerance | Man | Nature | Loss |
Harold Laski, fully Harold Joseph Laski
The surest way to bring about destruction of a civilization is to allow the abyss to widen between the values men praise and the values they permit to operate.
Civilization | Men | Praise |
The only way in which one can make endurable man's inhumanity to man, and a man's destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man's humanity to man and man's reverence for the place in which he lives.
Humanity | Inhumanity | Man | Reverence |
The emotional environment we create within our bodies can activate mechanisms of destruction or repair.
There is no cruelty so inexorable and unrelenting as that which proceeds from a bigoted and presumptuous supposition of doing service to God. The victim of the fanatical persecutor will find that the stronger the motives he can urge for mercy are, the weaker will be his chance for obtaining it, for the merit of his destruction will be supposed to rise in value in proportion as it is effected at the expense of every feeling both of justice and of humanity.
Chance | Cruelty | God | Humanity | Justice | Mercy | Merit | Motives | Service | Will | Cruelty | Value | Victim |
Because it is more difficult to limit wars to a single area, all wars are of concern for all nations. Not only construction, but also destruction may today be global.
In the human heart there is a ceaseless birth of passions, so that the destruction of one is almost always the establishment of another.
The passions and desires, like the two twists of a rope, mutually mix one with the other, and twine inextricably round the heart; producing good if moderately indulged; but certain destruction if suffered to become inordinate.
Dwight Eisenhower, fully Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower
War is no longer a lively adventure or expedition into romance, matching man against man in the test of the stout-hearted. Instead, it is aimed against the cities mankind has built. Its goal is their total destruction and devastation.
Dwight Eisenhower, fully Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower
The pact of Munich was a more fell blow to humanity than the atom bomb at Hiroshima. Suffocation of human freedom among a once free people, however quietly and peacefully accomplished, is more far-reaching in its implications and its effects on their future than the destruction of their homes, industrial centers and transportation facilities. Out of rubble heaps, willing hands can rebuild a better city; but out of freedom lost can stem only generations of hate and bitter struggle and brutal oppression.
Better | Freedom | Future | Hate | Humanity | Oppression | People | Struggle |
Ellen Key, fully Ellen Karolina Sofia Key
The destruction of the personality is the great evil of the time.
Evil | Personality | Time |