Destructiveness

1. The quality of destroying or ruining. Prynne.

2. (Phren.) The faculty supposed to impel to the commission of acts of destruction; propensity to destroy.

Quotes:

"Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates." - Marquis De Sade

"We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings." - Alfred Jarry

"The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble." - Walter Benjamin

"The passion for destruction is also a creative passion." - Mikhail Bakunin