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“For me, it is as though at every moment the actual world had completely lost its actuality. As though there was nothing there; asthough there were no foundations for anything or as though it escaped us. Only one thing, however, is vividly present: the constant tearing of the veil of appearances; the constant destruction of everything in construction. Nothing holds together, everything falls apart.”

World Moments Together Fall Lost One Thing Illusion Destruction Foundation Constant Appearance Construction Veils Falling Apart Actuality Everything Falls Apart

Author:Eugene Ionesco

“Positive energy brings good feelings, and dark energy often means harm. But the destruction in dark energy is also a subtle aspect of construction, like how even forest fires have their benefits. Sometimes enemies are our best teachers, people can learn from their mistakes, destruction sometimes means rebirth.”

“Kant argued that, where nature could be considered beautiful in her acts of destruction, human violence appeared instead as monstrous. However, a misreading of Kant in Romantic philosophy led to the idealization of the murderer as a sublime genius that has colored constructions of that criminal figure ever since.”

Humans Philosophy Beautiful Violence Figures Genius Destruction Criminals Construction Sublime Murderer Monstrous Misreading

Author:Richard Marshall

“No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic.”

Men Fighting Race Men And Women Destruction England British Empires Republic Construction British Empire

Author:James Larkin

“A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.”

Humans States Human Beings Fashion Destruction Constant Construction Parallels Parallel Universe Under Construction

Author:Jose Saramago

“The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation - a force for construction and destruction.”

Humans Inspiration Motivation Force Powerful Known Planets Destruction Most Powerful Cooperation Construction

Author:Jonathan Haidt

“When the days become longer and there is more sunshine, the grass becomes fresh and, consequently, we feel very happy. On the other hand, in autumn, one leaf falls down and another leaf falls down. The beautiful plants become as if dead and we do not feel very happy. Why? I think it is because deep down our human nature likes construction, and does not like destruction. Naturally, every action which is destructive is against human nature. Constructiveness is the human way. Therefore, I think that in terms of basic human feeling, violence is not good. Non-violence is the only way.”

“This movement is not about the destruction of law, but the construction of law.”

Law Movement Destruction Lawyer Construction

Author:Julian Assange

“Adoration will heal our Church and thus our nation and thus our world... Adoration touches everyone and everything... [because it touches the Creator, Who touches everything and everyone]... When we adore, we plug into infinite dynamism and power. Adoration is more powerful for construction than nuclear bombs are for destruction”

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Author:Peter Kreeft

“Salvation and justice are not to be found in revolution, but in evolution through concord. Violence has ever achieved only destruction, not construction; the kindling of passions, not their pacification; the accumulation of hate and destruction, not the reconciliation of the contending parties; and it has reduced men and parties to the difficult task of building slowly after sad experience on the ruins of discord.”

“Unfortunately, it is all too often true that suppressors to a creative action must be removed before construction and creation takes place. Any person very high on the Tone Scale may level destruction toward a suppressor.”

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Author:L. Ron Hubbard

“The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new.”

Source: Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 edition

“It is merely a metaphor to call competition competitive war, or simply, war. The function of battle is destruction; of competition, construction.”

War Battle Destruction Function Competition Metaphor Construction

Book:Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist

Source: Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist

“We've taken a show about destruction and turned it into a show about construction.”

Shows Taken Destruction Construction

Author:Anson Mount

“This generation may either be the last to exist in any semblance of a civilised world or that it will be the first to have the vision, the bearing and the greatness to say, 'I will have nothing to do with this destruction of life, I will play no part in this devastation of the land, I am determined to live and work for peaceful construction for I am morally responsible for the world of today and the generations of tomorrow.'”