Quotes About Ruin

In Germany it is good if as many people as possible join initiatives and peaceful demonstrations against the rule of the financial markets. Worshipping the unfettered freedom of global markets has brought the world to the brink of ruin. We now need social and ecological rules for the market economy.

The land, that thou see now to have root, shall thou see wasted suddenly.

Intelligence without wisdom brings destruction.

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

Three things ruin a man: power, money, and women. I never wanted power. I never had any money, and the only woman in my life is up at the house right now.

There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.

The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history.

A man who is used to acting in one way never changes; he must come to ruin when the times, in changing, no longer are in harmony with his ways.

No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!

It is much easier to ruin a man of principle than a man of none, for he may be ruined through his scruples. Knavery is supple and can bend; but honesty is firm and upright, and yields not.

Man marks the earth with ruin - his control stops with the shore.

Let it be a settled principle ...that men's salvation, if saved, is wholly of God; and that man's ruin, if lost, is wholly of himself.

A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.

The man who first brought ruin upon the Roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements.

We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man.

For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike.

He who trusts himself for safety to the care of a wicked man, in seeking succor meets with ruin.

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death.

All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.

That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing.

The fashionable life of the capital shattered not merely the fortunes of men, but also their vigour of body and mind. That elegant world of fragrant ringlets, of fashionable mustachios and ruffles—merry as were its doings in the dance and with the harp, and early and late at the wine-cup—yet concealed in its bosom an alarming abyss of moral and economic ruin, of well or ill concealed despair, and frantic or knavish resolves.