Dismantling Quotes

… a better hand at pulling down than building.

If you disaggregate, things fall apart.

Taking a thing apart is always faster than putting something together. This is true of everything except marriage.

I think that when the education system started to be dismantled during the first Great Depression in the 1930s, we didn't recover from that.

Real danger is nothing more than just living. Of course, living is merely the chaos of existence, but more than that it's a crazy mixed-up business of dismantling existence instant by instant to the point where the original chaos is restored, and taking strength from the uncertainty and the fear that chaos brings to re-create existence instant by instant. You won't find another job as dangerous as that. There isn't any fear in existence itself, or any uncertainty, but living creates it.

You can't put something together again unless you've torn it apart first.

The toppling of idols - even respectable, admired, best-practice, fastest-growing idols - is always the road to liberation.

Taking to pieces is the trade of those who cannot construct.

The wrecking crew

If people do not believe in Europe and in the euro area, it must be dismantled.

We see an extensive program of dismantling state institutions... These are ingredients for catastrophe.

I have been writing in spurts, bit by bit. It is incredibly difficult. Everything is corroded, broken, dismantled; everything is covered with hardened layers of accumulated insensitivity, deafness, entrenched routine. It is disgusting.

We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil.

Nuclear weapons can be dismantled, but they cannot be uninvented.

Mass incarceration will have to be dismantled the same way it was constructed: piecemeal, incrementally and, above all, locally.

The dictatorship needs to be entirely dismantled. All the rest of the old guard must go.

Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.

Everything is divisible. And so is this colossus of U.S. imperialism. It can be split up and defeated.

I am happy to accept that badge of ambivalence if that means some progress in dismantling this false opposition: writers boldly using their privileges of free speech in the morally superior West versus pathetic wimps in repressive countries we don't like.

The great soul of power extends far beyond states, to every domain of life, from families to international affairs. And throughout, every form of authority and domination bears a severe burden of proof. It is not self-legitimizing. And when it cannot bear the burden, as is commonly the case, it should be dismantled.

You’ve been assigned an identity since birth. Then you spend the rest of your life walking around in it to see if it really fits. You try on all these different selves and abandon just as many. But really it’s about dismantling all that false armor, getting down to what’s real. -Going Bovine

A reliable assurance of the right and ability to dismantle the constructed structure must be offered, before the job of construction starts in earnest.

Unscrew the locks from the doors ! Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs !

I have no nostalgia for the patriarchy, please believe me. But what I have come to realize is that, when that patriarchic system was (rightfully) dismantled, it was not necessarily replaced by another form of protection. What I mean is--I never thought to ask a suitor the same challenging questions my father might have asked him, in a different age.

So break me to small parts, let go in small doses, but spare some for spare parts.