A man is never made for vanquish. A man can be ruined but…

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

— Emile M. Cioran

The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.

— Publilius Syrus

The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit; the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for…

— John Masefield

The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a "ruined man" is itself a vocation.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

When the enemies' land force is once conquered and expelled from the continent, our Marine will rise as if by enchantment and become, within…

— John Paul Jones

“Life was terrible. It was as though they could understand, as though they could read in one another’s eyes, that the power which had…

— Vasily Grossman

Like us many have spoken over this spring, but they were gone in the twinkling of an eye. We conquered the world with bravery…

— Babur

I came, I saw, I conquered From record sales to sold out concerts.

— Jay-Z

Of course, mankind would not have landed on the Moon in 1969, were it not for two things: conquered Nazi rocket technology and post-war…

— Charles Duke

The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

— Pierre de Coubertin

My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely.

— Cleopatra

“We were thinking, we have conquered time but, ‘HE’ replied in 2020.”

— Rajesh Walecha

Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to…

— Susan Glaspell

Here's the reality. The image of a white Jesus has been used to justify enslavement, conquest, colonialism, the genocide of indigenous peoples. There are…

— Tim Wise