Kenneth Helm > Kenneth's Quotes

Showing 1-30 of 30

#1

“We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel from each other and their environment.”
― Michael Jackson

tags: alienation, destruction, healing, people, world

340 likes

#2

“The most dangerous people in the world are not the tiny minority instigating evil acts, but those who do the acts for them. For example, when the British invaded India, many Indians accepted to work for the British to kill off Indians who resisted their occupation. So in other words, many Indians were hired to kill other Indians on behalf of the enemy for a paycheck. Today, we have mercenaries in Africa, corporate armies from the western world, and unemployed men throughout the Middle East killing their own people - and people of other nations - for a paycheck. To act without a conscience, but for a paycheck, makes anyone a dangerous animal. The devil would be powerless if he couldn't entice people to do his work. So as long as money continues to seduce the hungry, the hopeless, the broken, the greedy, and the needy, there will always be war between brothers.”
― Suzy Kassem

tags: army, bad, battlefield, british, brothers, capitalism, chaos, combat, conflict, conscience, corruption, countries, danger, dangerous, deeds, destruction, devil, divided, division, ethics, evil, evil-acts, evil-men, greedy, helpless, hopeless, humanity, hungry, india, indians, mankind, mercenaries, middle-east, middle-east-conflict, military, minority, money, nations, needy, peace, people, political-science, politics, profit, reasoning, seduce, sociology, united, unity, unrest, war, warring, wealth, wiked, world

127 likes

#3

“The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.”
― George Orwell, 1984

258 likes

#4

“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us the less taste we shall have for the destruction of our race. Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions, and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.

{Speech accepting the John Burroughs Medal}”
― Rachel Carson

tags: attention, burroughs, destruction, emotion, existence, humility, inspirational, john-burroughs, lust, reality, science, universe, wonder

115 likes

#5

“When you keep hurting someone, you do one of three things. Either you fill them up with hate, and they destroy everything around them. Or you fill them up with sadness, and they destroy themselves. Or you fill them up with justice, and they try to destroy everything that's bad and cruel in this world. Me, I was the first kind of person.”
― Nick Lake, In Darkness

tags: destruction, hate

76 likes

#6

“Everything might scatter. You might be right. I suppose it's something we can't easily get away from. People need to feel they belong. To a nation, to a race. Otherwise, who knows what might happen? This civilisation of ours, perhaps it'll just collapse. And everything scatter, as you put it.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans

tags: belonging, chaos, civilization, destruction, fear, insecurity, misogyny, racism, religion, roots, war

70 likes

#8

“Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.”
― Criss Jami

tags: agenda, bad-influence, compulsive-liar, controlling, craftsman, deception, destruction, dishonest, influence, lies, manipulation, media, mislead, slander, speak, true

1702 likes

#9

“You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Extras

tags: destruction, freedom

1289 likes

#10

“Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, "Love your enemies." It is this: that love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals. Just keep being friendly to that person. Just keep loving them, and they can’t stand it too long. Oh, they react in many ways in the beginning. They react with guilt feelings, and sometimes they’ll hate you a little more at that transition period, but just keep loving them. And by the power of your love they will break down under the load. That’s love, you see. It is redemptive, and this is why Jesus says love. There’s something about love that builds up and is creative. There is something about hate that tears down and is destructive. So love your enemies. (from "Loving Your Enemies")”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.

tags: creation, destruction, enemies, hate, love, redemption

1278 likes

#11

“What win I, if I gain the thing I seek?
A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy.
Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week?
Or sells eternity to get a toy?
For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy?
Or what fond beggar, but to touch the crown,
Would with the sceptre straight be strucken down?”
― William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece

tags: destruction, fleeting-possession, gain, greed

162 likes

#12

“Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day.”
― William Shakespeare, Richard II

tags: death, decay, destruction, ruin

90 likes

#13

“If the ignorance of nature gave birth to such a variety of gods, the knowledge of this nature is calculated to destroy them.”
― Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach, System of Nature

tags: atheism, atheist, destruction, god-of-the-gaps, gods, ignorance, knowledge, nature

48 likes

#14

“What obsession do men have for destruction and murder? Who do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled 'enemy?”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: destruction, men, murder

33 likes

#15

“Why do we desire, above all other things, that which has the greatest power to destroy us?”
― Margaret Rogerson, An Enchantment of Ravens

tags: destruction, gadfly, love

300 likes

#16

“Vengeance, retaliation, retribution, revenge are deceitful brothers—vile, beguiling demons promising justifiable compensation to a pained soul for his losses. Yet in truth they craftily fester away all else of worth remaining.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, The Tarishe Curse

tags: beguiling, compensation, deceit, destruction, retaliation, retribution, revenge, richelle, richelle-goodrich, vengeance

39 likes

#17

“we are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our body, which is doomed to decay..., from the external world which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless force of destruction, and finally from our relations with other men... This last source is perhaps more painful to use than any other. (p77)”
― Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

tags: abuse, age, body, destruction, pain, posttraumatic, psychology, psychology-quotes, ptsd, rage, relationships, society, suffering, threat, trauma

113 likes

#18

“It was time to bring out the world destructive weapons. It was now time to hit him where it would do the biggest damage, his pride.”
― Ottilie Weber, Family Ties

tags: destruction, inner-self, pride, revenge, strength, weapons

20 likes

#19

“Have you ever thought what a God would be like who actually ordained and executed the cruelty that is in [the biblical Book of Revelation]? A holocaust of mankind. Yet so many of these Bible-men accept the idea without a second thought.”
― C.J. Sansom, Revelation

tags: apocalypse, armageddon, book-of-revelation, cruelty, destruction, fundamentalism, holocaust, mania, orthodoxy, radicalism, religion

43 likes

#20

“Intelligence without wisdom brings destruction.”
― Erol Ozan

tags: destruction, intelligence, wisdom-inspirational

31 likes

#21

“What this country needs... what this great land of ours needs is something to happen to it. Something ferocious and tragic, like what happened to Jericho or the cities of the plain - something terrible I mean, son, so that when the people have been through hellfire and the crucible, and have suffered agony enough and grief, they’ll be people again, human beings, not a bunch of smug contented cows rooting at the trough.”
― William Styron, Set This House on Fire

tags: destruction, grief, usa

32 likes

#22

“We love the things that destroy us, because in that destruction we truly feel alive.”
― Robert Pobi, Bloodman

tags: addiction, destruction, life, love

55 likes

#23

“The tyrant is a child of Pride
Who drinks from his sickening cup
Recklessness and vanity,
Until from his high crest headlong
He plummets to the dust of hope.”
― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

tags: destruction, evil, pride, recklessness, ruin, tyranny, vanity

129 likes

#24

“The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

tags: breakfast-of-champions, destruction, earth, kurt-vonnegut, lousy, manufactured, planet, truth, world

85 likes

#25

“It would be well to realize that the talk of ‘humane methods of warfare’, of the ‘rules of civilized warfare’, and all such homage to the finer sentiments of the race are hypocritical and unreal, and only intended for the consumption of stay-at-homes. There are no humane methods of warfare, there is no such thing as civilized warfare; all warfare is inhuman, all warfare is barbaric; the first blast of the bugles of war ever sounds for the time being the funeral knell of human progress… What lover of humanity can view with anything but horror the prospect of this ruthless destruction of human life. Yet this is war: war for which all the jingoes are howling, war to which all the hopes of the world are being sacrificed, war to which a mad ruling class would plunge a mad world.”
― James Connolly

tags: aggression, civilized, death, destruction, elite, humanity, hypocrisy, james-connolly, jingoism, madness, morality, reality, ruling-class, truth, war, ww1

45 likes

#26

“Destruction is a man's will,
Nevertheless Prevention is also a man's will,
Its a man's choice to choose between Destruction and Prevention. :)”
― Babu Rajan

tags: destruction, pollution, war

16 likes

#27

“A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.”
― Edith Wharton

tags: destruction, frivolity, society, values

21 likes

#28

“No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much.”
― Robert McKee, Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting

tags: citizens, civilization, destruction, knowledge, learning, plato

16 likes

#29

“It is not what they built. It is what they knocked down.
It is not the houses. It is the spaces between the houses.
It is not the streets that exist. It is the streets that no longer exist.”
― James Fenton

tags: destruction, poetry, war

13 likes

#30

“How could you love something so destructive?" I ask.
"Because this wolf doesn't care if your heart is whole or not," you say. "It tastes just the same.”
― Jonathan Messinger, Hiding Out

tags: destruction, heart, love

11 likes

#31

“Here they [the Jaredites] became a flourishing nation; but, giving way in time to internal dissensions, they divided into factions, which warred with one another until the people were totally destroyed (p. 15).”
― James E. Talmage, Jesus the Christ: A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures, Both Ancient and Modern

tags: destruction, dissension, jaredites, latter-day-warning, lds

6 likes

All Quotes

Kenneth Helm > Kenneth's Quotes

Tags From Kenneth’s Quotes