Quotes by Ruins The rate of profit... is naturally low in rich and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries which are going fastest to ruin. Adam Smith ruins rich country Bolshevism turns flourishing countryside into sinister wastes of ruins; National Socialism transforms a Reich of destruction and misery into a healthy state with a flourishing economic life. Adolf Hitler ruins waste healthy Imagine me going around with a pot belly. It would mean political ruin. Adolf Hitler ruins political mean You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense. Aeschylus ruins literature want And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin. Aeschylus ruins free-will literature Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin. Aesop ruins growing-up evil You can ruin anything if you focus at it. Aimee Bender ruins focus ifs The more you think, the more you ruin things. Art has to come viscerally; otherwise, forget it. Al Jourgensen ruins art thinking It seems, in fact, that the more advanced a society is, the greater will be its interest in ruined things, for it will see in them a redemptively sobering reminder of the fragility of its own achievements. Ruins pose a direct challenge to our concern with power and rank, with bustle and fame. They puncture the inflated folly of our exhaustive and frenetic pursuit of wealth. Alain de Botton ruins achievement challenges In the end, an impatience with the Word of God can be explained only by an impatience with God. We all, both individually and congregationally, neglect God's Word to our own ruin. Albert Mohler impatience ruins life The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her surely, In the flattering toils of philandery. Alexander Pushkin our-love ruins toil It is certain that despotism ruins individuals by preventing them from producing wealth much more than by depriving them of what they have already produced; it dries up the source of riches, while it usually respects acquired property. Freedom, on the contrary, produces far more goods than it destroys; and the nations which are favored by free institutions invariably find that their resources increase even more rapidly than their taxes. Alexis de Tocqueville ruins riches wealth 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 ruins use way The commercial storm leaves its path strewn with ruin. When it is over there is calm, but a dull, heavy calm. Alfred Marshall ruins storm dull A lot of people, they've been saying to me, oh don't get married. It ruins everything. And I'm like, damn. Alicia Keys ruins married people To be silent when we are impelled to utter words injurious to God or to our neighbour, is an act of virtue; but, to be silent in confessing our sins, is the ruin of the soul. Alphonsus Liguori ruins silence soul RUIN, v. To destroy. Specifically, to destroy a maid's belief in the virtue of maids. Ambrose Bierce maids ruins belief Every reformation ruins somebody. Amelia B. Edwards reformation ruins reform No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage! Amelia Barr ruins finals men It is often said that in prosperity we have many friends, but that we are usually neglected when things go badly. I disagree. Not only do malicious people flock about us in order to witness our ruin, but other unfortunates as well, who have been kept away by our happiness, and now feel close to us on account of our troubles. Andre Maurois ruins order people 1234567891011»