An aphorism is nothing else but the slightest
form of writing raised to the highest level of expressive communication. Carl William Brown



60,000 QUOTES SPIDER
 


QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON DESTRUCTION

 

 

The passion for destruction is also a creative passion.

 

Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876, Russian political theorist)

 

The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.

 

Walter Benjamin (1982-1940, German critic, philosopher)

 

We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings.

 

Alfred Jarry (1873-1907, French playwright, author)

 

When smashing monuments, save the pedestals -- they always come in handy.

 

Stanislaw J. Lec (1909-1966, Polish writer)

 

Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.

 

Marquis De Sade (1740-1814, French author)

 

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