“I could die in peace, I think, if the world was beautiful. To know it's being ruined is hard.”
Wendell Berry (1934) author
Source: Jayber Crow
“I am accused of ruining the world. What is it I am going to gain by ruining the world? I do not understand what the Brahmin devotees actually feel. Will anyone carry on propaganda to ruin the world? I hope they would soon think with reason.”
Brahminism
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Anselm Kiefer (1945) German painter and sculptor
Quoted in Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joshua-schwartz/in-the-beginning-there-was-not_b_1703387.html
“If all the people of this world were intelligent, the world would be ruined.”
Hasan al-Askari (846–874) Eleventh of the Twelve Imams
[Baqir Shareef al-Qurashi, Abdullah al-Shahin, The Life of Imam Hasan al-'Askari, Wonderful short maxims, 2005]
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Knowledge
“After I am dead, the boy will ruin himself in twelve months.”
George V of the United Kingdom (1865–1936) King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India
Statement to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, referring to his son, Edward, Prince of Wales
Quoted in Keith Middlemas and John Barnes, Baldwin (1969) ch.34
“To rise by others' fall
I deem a losing gain;
All states with others' ruins built
To ruin run amain.”
Robert Southwell (1561–1595) English Jesuit
Source: Content and Rich, Line 57; p. 59.
Émile Durkheim (1858–1917) French sociologist (1858-1917)
Source: Rules of Sociological Method, 1895, p. 3
Montesquieu (1689–1755) French social commentator and political thinker
Si je savais une chose utile à ma nation qui fût ruineuse à une autre, je ne la proposerais pas à mon prince, parce que je suis homme avant d’être Français, parce que je suis nécessairement homme, et que je ne suis Français que par hasard
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Pensées et Fragments Inédits de Montesquieu (1899)
