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Tearing down is always easier than building up,
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We burned not a home, but a symbol.
We burned a symbol to the ground.
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defenestration," which derives from "fenestra," the Latin word for "window," refers to the act of throwing something or someone out of the window. Knowing this, we can impress our friends with statements like, "Sally finished her apple and defenestrated the core.")
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Destruction, best expressed in this age in which I write as terrorism, is truly there for its own sake, but the pretense of religion or secular patriotism converts the destructive into the speciously creative.
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There is, in the act o destruction, a beauty which we try to deny, and a joy which we cannot. Children build to knock down, and though we may grow around it, that need runs in us, deeper than our blood.
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Sometimes, you have to destroy something in order to build something better.
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We don't build,' I said to my son, 'we just destroy.
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Destruction is as valid an artistic statement as construction. Both statements echo the model of the society we live in. The only invalid art is utopian
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When a man despoils a work of art we call him a vandal, when he despoils a work of nature we call him a developer.
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I can't repair my wall as fast as you can tear it down.
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We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create.
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You can't disassemble a bomb unless you understand how it was built.
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Teach us the names of what we have destroyed.
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Modern man's capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity's capacity for reconstruction. The powerful technological agents we have unleashed against the environment include many of the agents we require for its reconstruction.
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That is the way to lay the city flat, To bring the roof to the foundation, And bury all, which yet distinctly ranges, In heaps and piles of ruin.
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There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.
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You only have to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down.
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Nothing we can't handle, break it up and dismantle.
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Every time I've flown an aircraft, or visited a steelworks, or watched a panel-beater at work, I've learned something new that can be applied to buildings.
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Brick by brick, I will destroy you.
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Destruction is a form of creation.
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The crushed
teapot
in
the rubbish
of the
bulldozed
house
will sing
in your
ears
forever.
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The liberator who destroyed my property has realigned my perceptions.
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Anyone can admire creation. Only a barbarian sees the beauty in demolition.
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Oh see, first off you gotta realize - everything for me is a reconstruction or deconstruction. I would actually say deconstruction. Mission: Impossible would be the exception. That would be a reconstruction- deconstruction.
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Destruction is easy. But creating something that lasts is a challenge.
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Bomb Disposal Is a face off with your own mortality. Don't let the fear get to you. When you give in to the fear, the Darkness Comes.
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I hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppled masonry, and time one livid final flame.
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His life was dedicated to the fine art of tearing down and building anew.
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Creative destruction is gonna be the greatest thing that can happen to Manhattan.
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What I love I destroy. What I destroy, I love.
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You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.
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Cities are made for enemies to destroy.
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Destroy or be destroyed! I just love that way of life!
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Anything man can make, man can destroy.
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The destruction of something beautiful can appear so entertaining.
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The tragic side of many architectural enterprises is that they destroy natural beauties which are a priceless possession and cannot be replaced.
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I'm a destroyer: I destroy prejudice.
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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deconstruction is an attempt to break through hardened structures and traditions for the purpose of reengaging the stimulating, life-giving substance that gave rise to the now-encrusted traditions.[3]
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No one can destroy unless you let them do it
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Destruction is difficult. It is as difficult as creation.
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Brick by brick, I will destroy you. But
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The clatter of a changing world is not pleasant, and those who have enjoyed the comforts and protection of the old order may be shocked and unhappy when they behold the vigorous young builders of a new world sweeping away their time-honored antiquities.
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Destroy or be destroyed-there is no middle way! Let us then be the destroyers!
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We have to discard the past / and, as one builds / floor by floor, window by window, / and the building rises, / so do we keep shedding - first, broken tiles, / then proud doors ... and each new day / gleams / like an empty / plate.
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walls, the upturned cars, the barking dogs, the
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the ruin insufficiently ruined,
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Deconstruction is not meant to be a soft sighing for the future, but a way of deciding now and being impassioned in a moment.
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All the great and beneficent operations of Nature are produced by slow and often imperceptible degrees. The work of destruction and devastation only is violent and rapid.
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Introduction
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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.
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The dignity and sobriety of old public buildings, their temple facades, would be assaulted and covered over by indiscriminate modernity; that new buildings, more severely efficient, would eventually replace them.
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One of the most highly developed skills in contemporary Western civilization is dissection: the split -up of problems into their smallest possible components. We are good at it. So good, we often forget to put the pieces back together again.
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Property is a nuisance.
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Builders build.
Destroyers come behind builders to destroy their works.
They cannot.
The legacy is already planted.
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Magnificent, magnificent desolation.
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I authorize an air strike that reduces my street to rubble; I fold Swansea Bay like an enormous omelette and scoff it all
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Focus your intention on what your building, not whats already fallen away.
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You can destroy wood and brick, but you can't destroy a movement.
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Sometimes you have to destroy things, even people, in order to save them. (7)
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Defaced ruins of architecture and statuary, like the wrinkles of decrepitude of a once beautiful woman, only make one regret that one did not see them when they were enchanting.
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The bourgeoisie of the whole world, which looks complacently upon the wholesale massacre after the battle, is convulsed by horror at the desecration of brick and mortar.
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There are things that must be destroyed
or they'll destroy us.
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Bomb me, make me vaporise
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There's a simple joy in casting a rock into still waters and watching the ripples spread. It's the thrill of destruction combined with the surety that all will be well again - everything as it was.
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Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of.
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Sometimes you can't help but destroy the intricate things in life.
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Honours, monuments, whatever the ambitious have ordered by decrees or raised in public buildings are soon destroyed: there is nothing that the passage of time does not demolish and remove.
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Towards the avoidance of a piece of verbal confusion: What is intended to be actively destroyed must first of all have been firmly grasped; what crumbles away crumbles away, but cannot be destroyed.
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Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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spraying shards of glass and metal into the station.
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An erect building is a shackled slave. I hear the mutinous grumbling of vertical buildings. I hear the grinding frustration of those compelled against their will to remain standing. A building is energy crucified against space and time.
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A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
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There is going to be destruction: the obliteration of a person, his intellect, his experience and his agency. I am to watch it. This is my part.
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Another big ripping sound. Jesus. Had they brought supernatural dynamite in to tear the whole place apart?
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Only in the shattering can the rebuilding occur.
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Then it was a rumble, causing the house to groan and small clouds of dust to drop from the ceiling. The table scuttled over the floor. A chair toppled over and then another. Somewhere in the living room, a window shattered. Kat was going to bring the house down.
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In Iraq, the U.S. military's whack-a-mole approach to killing Saddam Hussein may have finally paid off. The bombs destroyed the area and left behind a 60-foot crater, or as coalition forces prefer to call it: a freedom hole.
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Nothing means anything here. When they pull down an outstanding building, no one objects. Oh, maybe there's a wee protest from some collectors or something who take a picture of it before it vanishes.
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The truth is revealed by removing things that stand in its light, an art not unlike sculpture, in which the artist creates, not by building, but by hacking away.
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When we destroy something crated by man we call it vandalism but when we destroy something by nature we call it progress.
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THERE IS, IN the act of destruction, a beauty which we try to deny, and a joy which we cannot. Children
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You raze the old to raise the new.
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Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die.
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Smoke curls among the ruins of East London. Many of the buildings have burned to the ground or split like exploded rocks. Small lights bloom like a sea of candles. Even this rain will never put them all out.
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We destroy things with our curiosity. We shatter with our best intentions
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Creativity is the antidote to destruction.
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Ruined chimneys rose above masses of broken bricks
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There is a point in your life when you realize that you have written enough destructors ...
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For 100,000 (dollars), you [can] flatten a house with a wrecking ball. Imagine how much less it [takes] to destroy something than it [does] to build it in the first place.
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The reason for this project comes from my childhood, that is clear to me. I did not have any toys. So, I played in the bricks of ruined buildings around me and with which I built houses.
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Sheltering in Tube stations, the piles of rubble
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We have finished the job, what shall we do with the tools?
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Everybody knows that our cities were built to be destroyed.
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Break me down to nothing, so I can be rebuilt as your everything.
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And there's an ownership to destruction, an intimacy: an appropriation.
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All I wanted was you. I tore down my wall for you. Now it's been rebuilt.
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You have to destroy something to make it beautiful.
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Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and easier. Architecture was dethroned. The stone letters of Orpheus gave way to the lead letters of Gutenburg. The book will kill the edifice.