Quotes About Ruin

Death and ruin is man's preferred ecosystem.

Anger is enough to destroy you

The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations.

We would fight not for the political future of a distant city [Danzig], rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and security for the peoples of the earth.

The people of England will curse themselves for having preferred ruin from Churchill to peace from Hitler.

Any manipulation of the Scriptures to make them speak peace to the natural man is evil and can only lead to ruin.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

Here is the repeated image of the lover destroyed.

Out of the ruined lodge and forgotten mansion, bowers that are trodden under foot, and pleasure-houses that are dust, the poet calls up a palingenesis.

To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour

Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.

Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed?

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

I hate all bungling as I do sin, but particularly bungling in politics, which leads to the misery and ruin of many thousands and millions of people.

The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.

Others may have it in their power to affect how and even whether you live, but they do not, say the Stoics, have it in their power to ruin your life. Only you can ruin it, by failing to live in accordance with the correct values. The Stoics believed in social reform, but they also believed in personal transformation.

Gendemen, I have resolved never to make an unjust war, but to end a just one only with the utter ruin of my enemies. I will attack the first to take the field, conquer him, and then deal with the others."- Charles XII

Curst be the Gold and Silver which persuade Weak Men to follow far-fatiguing Trade! The Lilly-Peace outshines the silver Store, And Life is dearer than the golden Ore. Yet Money tempts us o'er the Desert brown, To ev'ry distant Mart and wealthy Town: Full oft we tempt the Land and Sea; And are we only yet repay'd by Thee? Ah! why was Ruin so attractive made, Or why fond Man so easily betrayed? - Eclogue the Second. Hassan; or the Camel-driver

A boy who hears a lesson in history ended by the beauty of peace, and how Napoleon brought ruin upon the world and that he should be forever cursed, will not long have much confidence in his teacher. He wants to hear more about the fighting and less about the peace negotiations.

It would seem that on hearing Abélard's lecture, Anselm of Laon became "wildly jealous," circumstances that Abélard assigned to every conceivable cause except the one that he had set in motion. "Since the beginning of the human race," Abélard observed with some asperity in his autobiography, Historia Calamitatum (A History of My Misfortunes), women have "brought the noblest men to ruin.

There is a fundamental irony at work. More and more of us keep pouring into the region, in no small part because it seems relatively empty compared to the rest of the country. What attracts us we then ruin.

Whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad." (Euripides)

Mr. Stanley has done his part with untiring energy; good judgment in the teeth of very serious obstacles. His helpmates turned out depraved blackguards, who, by their excesses at Zanzibar and elsewhere, had ruined their constitutions, and prepared their systems to be fit provender for the grave. They had used up their strength by wickedness, and were of next to no service, but rather downdrafts and unbearable drags to progress.

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.