Destroy Quote by Peter Arnett

Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

You cannot save wonderful towns. You can only save wonderful towns by building new ones.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Not every town can or should be saved.

— J. D. Vance

We proceeded systematically, village by village and we destroyed the houses, filled up the wells, blew down the towers, cut down the shady trees,…

— Winston Churchill

Ten thousand people died, an entire town destroyed.

— Barack Obama

“Since the military part of town could not tolerate disarray and the commercial part found it unprofitable, all of the chaos had been pushed…

— Neal Stephenson

The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.

— Nikolai Gogol

We set the town on fire and burned down every house as a warning to other small towns along the river.

— Knute Nelson

Today the cities dominate and drain the villages so that they are crumbling to ruin.

— Mahatma Gandhi

So, it looks like we rebuild the village and blow it apart a few more times.

— Vic Morrow

We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval town. We cannot comprehend its compactness, the contiguity of all its buildings as a single…

— Arthur Erickson

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

— Honore de Balzac