Detroits industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching..
Your scheme must be the framework of the universe; all other schemes will soon be ruins..
Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin..
God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions..
Good intentions have been the ruin of the world. The only people who have achieved anything have been those who have had no intentions at all..
I call the Lancashire trade immoral, because it was raised and is sustained on the ruin of millions of India's peasants..