Building Quote by Peter Greenaway

In the '60s when I was a student, there was this campaign to destroy 75 percent of the old buildings in Paris, replacing them…

— Christian de Portzamparc

In fact, violence as a symbol of our growing irrationality has had an increasing role in activity for its own sake, when no possible…

— Carroll Quigley

“It has become somewhat trite, nowadays, to say that after so many years of destruction it is a kind of miracle that Paris is…

— Julien Green

In Paris, there has to be a presence. History becomes the most interesting when it's compared to the present. I mean there's a whole…

— Thom Mayne

While we have entertained the contention that a deed may make more propaganda than hundreds of speeches, thousands of articles, and tens of thousands…

— Johann Most

People who say that violence doesn't accomplish anything have not read history. I don't celebrate that reality, but there you have it.

— Cleve Jones

Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness.

— Leon Trotsky

Anyone who clings to the historically untrue-and thoroughly immoral-doctrine that, 'violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte…

— Robert A. Heinlein

The Paris attack was highly sophisticated, well-planned, very clever, took months in the making, very much like 9/11. And there is a 9/11-style attack…

— Rand Paul

When you look at the gladiator times or at any of the things in human history, people are and have always been attracted to…

— Rosario Dawson

We are constantly being astonished these days at the amazing discoveries in the field of violence. But I maintain that far more undreamt of…

— Mahatma Gandhi

We no longer have the public spheres available to be able to contest that violence. We don't see it in the mainstream media, we…

— Henry Giroux