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Quotes About Vandalism

We never left a set until we'd trashed it.
~ Uma Thurman
Why didn't vandals ever quote Shakespeare? I'd love to see graffiti in iambic pentameter.
~ J.A. Konrath
They talk about vandalism, about the destruction of statues, but is not the destruction of so many wonderful young men who were polychrome statues of incomparable beauty also vandalism? Is not a city in which there are no more beautiful men like a city in which all the statuary has been destroyed?
~ Marcel Proust
I could go on to speak of sanity as compared with insanity, decency as compared with vandalism, friendship as compared with rabies.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
There's never any graffiti in the hotel. Although in the Gents a couple of weeks ago I did see someone had drawn a lady's part. Quite detailed. The guy obviously had talent.
~ Steve Coogan
He spun out enough toilet paper to vandalize a house and carefully cleaned the seat.
~ Unknown
HitchBOT made it as far as Philadelphia, where the doll was dismembered and left in a dark alley.4
~ Unknown
On the chalkboard was another horrible but familiar sight. Someone had dipped his or her hand into a can of paint and pressed it on the wall. The handprint was bright red.
~ Michael Buckley
Undressing her was an act of recklessness, a kind of vandalism, like releasing a zoo full of animals, or blowing up a dam.
~ Michael Chabon
I don't get it," she said. "No rules on anything, and this is the cleanest park I've ever seen. How?" "People care enough to maintain it," he explained as they went outside again, "and any vandalism is gone in less than a day, at the vandal's expense if he's found, so there is a real motivation against damaging things.
~ Michael Z. Williamson
Because our present social arrangements, however, do not provide adequate challenges for the skills teenagers have, they must discover opportunities for action outside those sanctioned by adults. The only outlets they find, all too often, are vandalism, delinquency, drugs, and recreational sex.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
It had taken her keying Irene's car on the last day of school for him to figure out she was loony.
~ Unknown
Christeson, cut that stop sign down and put it in the back of the truck". He looked at me in disbelief. An Officer had never before ordered him to commit vandalism.
~ Unknown
The only real downside to all of this was not to appear for another thirteen years. In the brave new, and very middle-class, alternative world, mainstream politics were rather neglected. By the time anyone realised, it was too late. The wallflowers, who had been left out of all the fun in the Sixties, got their own back during the 1980s by gaining control of the country and vandalising the health service, education, libraries and any other cultural institutions they could get their hands on.
~ Nick Mason
Articles in the newspapers and talks by leading Maoists encouraged the Red Guards and congratulated them on their vandalism.
~ Nien Cheng
It'd taken only a few hours, but I felt like Michelangelo staring at the Sistine Chapel after four years of hard labor, like Banksy after spending six days searching the Internet for ideas to steal and three minutes of sidewalk vandalism to execute them.
~ Paul Beatty