#ruins

Politics ruins the character. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

#politics #ruins

We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins. ↗

— Edward Bond

#competent #deserts #end #may #new

I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and build on its ruins the temple of liberty. I have brothers in slavery. I have seen chains placed on their limbs and beheld them captive. ↗

— William Wells Brown

#brothers #build #captive #chains #constitution

Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them. ↗

— Angela Carter

#aged #back #carried #even #father

To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her. ↗

— Barbara Cartland

#around #beautiful #completely #degrading #destroy

What, Sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty. Whenever governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins. ↗

— Elbridge Gerry

#army #attempt #bane #destroy #establishment

A man is a god in ruins. ↗

— Duke Ellington

#man #ruins

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#among #anyone #cannot #come #despair

The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts. ↗

— Derek Walcott

#apart #estates #few #history #landscapes

The Rusty Ruins were the remains of an old city, a hulking reminder of back when there'd been way too many people, and everyone was incredibly stupid. And ugly. ↗

— Scott Westerfeld

#humor #ruins #rusty #funny