Quotes About Reconstruction

They've put skin from my arm on my ankle and from my thigh on my arm. So whenever I get asked what's happened to me, I end up saying it's like a little jigsaw, parts of my body all over the place.

In all postconflict reconstruction, the ultimate goal is to create a minimally capable state in four key areas: (1) security; (2) governance and participation; (3) social and economic well-being; and (4) justice and reconciliation.

Es probable, por tanto, que el camino lento de la construcción institucional se abandone y se opte en cambio por la tabula rasa, por rehacer desde cero buena parte del aparato de seguridad y justicia, sin considerar las enormes dificultades que esa ruta entraña. El resultado no puede ser sino la frustración colectiva.

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking ball at the site.

The power of autobiographical memories lies in their specificity. Colourful and alive, they can be actively called up and dwelled upon. They are reconstructions - which us why they are sometimes false - yet so powerful that they are accompanied by an extraordinary sense of their correctness.

Traces of a crime need to be coaxed out, not rushed.

The broken charm of the world about was broken into smaller pieces.

He reconstructed a possible groping Chad of three or four years before, a Chad who had, after all, simply—for that was the only way to see it—been too vulgar for his privilege. Surely it was a privilege to have been young and happy just there. Well, the best thing Strether knew of him was that he had had such a dream.

By facilitating a peace agreement and leading the reinvestment and reconstruction in Yemen, Saudi Arabia can turn around a failed state and bolster its standing as a global and regional leader.

When you have to start over from scratch, you can do it very differently than if you have this big thing that's kinda been building on top of itself for ages and ages.

Treat the world like a failed state; then you can understand the players needed to fix it.

When I was six, the Korean War broke out, and all the classrooms were destroyed by war. We studied under the trees or in whatever buildings were left.

The administration had spent $4.5 billion on the 2001 war in Afghanistan, including $390 million just to replace a bomber, a tanker, two helicopters, and two unmanned aerial vehicles that crashed during operations. Yet the administration would not propose to spend even 10 percent of the war's cost on Afghanistan's recovery or to secure the peace with new Afghan forces.

Larry Goodson, an American scholar of Afghanistan, interviewed Taliban leaders along the Pakistan border during this period and found that the movement benefited from "a perception that the Americans would leave, that reconstruction would not succeed, and that Afghanistan would return to chaos.

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

The slogan we have put forward is not just 'rehabilitation and reconstruction,' but 'build a new Kerala.' We will build a better Kerala.

I would love to see the French spending money to restore Iraq.

the ruin of the South, by the emancipation of her slaves, is not like the ruin of any other people. It is not a mere loss of liberty Ã¢â'¬Â¦ but it is the loss of liberty, property, home, country—everything that makes life worth having."7

Might it be possible at some future time, when neurophysiology has advanced substantially, to reconstruct the memories or insight of someone long dead?...It would be the ultimate breach of privacy.

Are the worlds of more advanced civilizations totally geometrized, entirely rebuilt by their inhabitants? Or would the signature of really advanced civilization be that they left no sign at all?

We thought the fireworks were marvelous," said Mort. "And I expect they'll soon be able to rebuild the outer wall.

Hurricane Katrina, coupled with Hurricane Rita, which came promptly on Katrina's heels, claimed more than 1,200 American lives. Together, they caused more than $200 billion in damage.

We can't afford to lose all that we've built from the ashes of the Korean War.

The book is a new philosophy of politics and of history, and an examination of the principles of democratic reconstruction. It also tries to contribute to an understanding of the totalitarian revolt against civilization, and to show that this is as old as our democratic civilization itself.