John Ruskin Quotes & Sayings (Page 11)

“Civilization is the making of civil persons.”

“Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.”

“No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.”

“The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.”

“All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.”

“There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.”

“Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.”

“Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.”

“The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.”

“How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?”