The passion for destruction is also a creative passion. – Mikhail Bakunin
The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble. – Walter Benjamin
It was only natural to want to destroy something you could never have. – Janet Fitch
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
