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Demolish Quotes

Tearing something down, on purpose and with intent.

These demolish quotes range from old political strategy, conquer a free town and you'd better tear it down or risk ruin yourself, to a simple boast about strength: once in, able to demolish any side. It's a blunt, physical word used with real intent, not just metaphor.

Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.

Quotes by A. S. Byatt

Some people who meet me might think I starve myself, because there's such an assumption that being thin involves putting yourself through torture and punishing your body, but I'm just naturally skinny - you should watch me demolish a ploughman's...

Quotes by Tamsin Egerton

Once I am in, I can demolish any side because that is my strength.

Quotes by Shikhar Dhawan

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

Quotes by Niccolo Machiavelli

Artist Quotes

A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.

Quotes by Muhammad Iqbal

The problem was Le Corbusier was a genius and an enormous artist, but he tried to resolve problems to which there is no solution. So the idea to demolish the centre of Paris in order to adapt it to the...

Quotes by Leon Krier

The effects of the attacks against health facilities emanate far beyond those immediately killed and injured. They demolish routine and lifesaving health care for all. They make life impossible. Full stop.

Quotes by Joanne Liu

One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.

Quotes by Jean Rostand

I demolish my bridges behind me - then there is no choice but forward.

Quotes by Fridtjof Nansen

Behind Quotes

No human heart is denied empathy. No religion can demolish that by indoctrination. No culture, no nation and nationalism - nothing can touch it because it is empathy.

Quotes by Dayananda Saraswati

The great thing about writing 'Deadpool' is that he can demolish expectations and typical comic book conventions with monster truck force. There are few other characters who can transition so easily from one type of story to the next.

Quotes by Cullen Bunn

Gawker thrived on embarrassment and shame, seeking to demolish not just celebrities or politicians but average random people whose sins it would expose for traffic and commenters who gloried in its actions.

Quotes by Ben Domenech

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.

Quotes by Alfred Jarry

Frequently Asked Questions

What's the Demolish quotes page about?
These quotes use "demolish" in different senses — political conquest, moral consequence, and personal confidence in competition.
Why search for demolish quotes?
The word carries force, so people reach for these quotes when writing about overcoming obstacles, tearing down old structures, or competitive confidence.
One quote warns that conquering a free town without demolishing it is a great error — what's that about?
It's a classic piece of political strategy thinking — the idea that leaving a conquered free city intact risks eventual rebellion, so failing to demolish it is framed as a costly miscalculation for the conqueror.
Does the collection include anything about self-image or body image?
One quote touches on it indirectly — someone pushes back on the assumption that being naturally thin means starving or punishing the body, a lighter, more personal entry Behind the harder-edged quotes about conquest and ego.
Is "demolish" used competitively anywhere here?
Yes — one quote is simple and confident: once in, they can demolish any side, a line about competitive strength once you've gotten past the entry point.

Even the psychological reading holds up: a wrong deed, left unchecked, can demolish the human ego the same way Bridges or a conquered town come down.