“I wouldn't destroy an entire house to destroy one man. But I would destroy a man to destroy a house.”

— Megan Whalen Turner , The King of Attolia

Source: The King of Attolia

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American children's writer 1965

Sikandar Butshikan

Bharistan-i-Shahi

“Take care! Kingdoms are destroyed by bandits, houses by rats, and widows by suitors.”

Ihara Saikaku (1642–1693) Japanese writer

Book I, ch. 5.
The Japanese Family Storehouse (1688)

“It was a house without kindness, never meant to be lived in, not a fit place for people or for love or for hope. Exorcism cannot alter the countenance of a house; Hill House would stay as it was until it was destroyed.”

Shirley Jackson book The Haunting of Hill House

Source: The Haunting of Hill House (1959)
Context: This house, which seemed somehow to have formed itself, flying together into its own powerful pattern under the hands of its builders, fitting itself into its own construction of lines and angles, reared its great head back against the sky without concession to humanity. It was a house without kindness, never meant to be lived in, not a fit place for people or for love or for hope. Exorcism cannot alter the countenance of a house; Hill House would stay as it was until it was destroyed.

“If builders built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.”

Gerald M. Weinberg (1933–2018) American computer scientist

Weinberg attributed with the quote in: Murali Chemuturi (2010) Mastering Software Quality Assurance: Best Practices, Tools and Technique for Software Developers. p. ix

“When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him Vandal. When he wantonly destroys one of the works of God we call him Sportsman.”

Joseph Wood Krutch (1893–1970) American writer, critic, and naturalist

The Great Chain of Life (1956), Chapter 9 "The Vandal and the Sportsman" http://books.google.com/books?id=Ydc0cooCB6QC&lpg=PA146&q="when+a+man+wantonly+destroys+one+of+the+works+of+man+we+call+him+vandal+when+he+wantonly+destroys+one+of+the+works+of+god+we+call+him+sportsman"#v=onepage. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2009, p. 148.