Statues stand as markers of collective memory, connecting us to a shared sense of belonging. When societies fracture into warring tribes, we convince ourselves that the past is irredeemably evil. So, we tear down our statues, but as Peter Hughes argues here, what begins with the destruction of statues, ends with the killing of people. Along with more recent damage to statues of Christopher Columbus, George Washington, Saddam Hussein, and Frederick Douglass, here too are accounts of what befall images of Nero, Buddha, Confucius, Felix Mendelssohn, Joseph Stalin, and Cecil Rhodes.