Khaled Hosseini

The Taliban's acts of cultural vandalism - the most infamous being the destruction of the giant Bamiyan Buddhas - had a devastating effect on Afghan culture and the artistic scene. The Taliban burned countless films, VCRs, music tapes, books, and paintings. They jailed filmmakers, musicians, painters, and sculptors.

Afghani Novelist

Jesse Jackson

Many are observing Ferguson and witnessing the anger, demonstrations, looting and vandalism and calling for quiet. But quiet isn't enough. The absence of noise isn't the presence of justice - and we must demand justice in Ferguson and the other 'Fergusons' around America.

American Activist

Ben Bernanke

Many foreclosed homes are neglected or abandoned, as legal proceedings or other factors delay their resale. Deteriorating or vacant properties can, in turn, directly affect the quality of life in a neighborhood, for example, by leading to increases in vandalism or crime.

American Public Servant

Emily Thornberry

Unesco can rightly be claimed as one of Britain's greatest contributions to that global architecture of peace, and for Penny Mordaunt to be willing to destroy that legacy by withdrawing Britain's membership is nothing but historical and cultural vandalism.

British Politician

Camille Paglia

The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.

American Author

Laura Ingraham

But to say that Sarah Palin and the tea party movement is responsible for vandalism or threats is just a way to dismiss the American people and, and their dissatisfaction with this health care bill.

American Celebrity

John A. Logan

Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations, that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided Republic.

American Soldier

Neil Morrissey

I lived all my life thinking the reason I was in care was because I was naughty. Because I was breaking and entering, pickpocketing, vandalism. I wasn't party to any social workers' reports.

English Actor

Neymar

My opinion is that protesting, there's no problem with it, as long as it is peaceful without violence, without vandalism.

Brazilian Athlete

Eric Schneiderman

Abandoned homes become magnets for vandalism and crime. They drag down the property values of neighboring homes.

American Politician

Vandalism is illegal and often leads to legal penalties.

Criminal Act

Vandalism can cause emotional distress in communities.

Public Distress

Acts of vandalism negatively affect the public image of an area.

Social Impact

 and it wasn't because they were contentious; it was just because there was routine vandalism -- which happens sometimes even on stage Sometimes even reporters have reported to me that they vandalized Wikipedia and were amazed that it was fixed so quickly. And I said -- you know, I always say, please don't do that. That's not a good thing.

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 And, it turns out, it's nothing new. Graffiti, or the act of writing or scribbling on public property, has been around for thousands of years. And across that span of time, it's raised the same questions we debate Is it art? Is it vandalism?

Is graffiti art? Or...

 peaceful orderly means of addressing this frustration we must respect the process of law whether or not we agree with the outcome in a civilized society there can be no excuse no excuse for the murder arson theft and vandalism that