Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the…

Quote by John Ruskin

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The entire object of true education, is to make people not merely do the right...

The entire object of true education, is to make people not merely do the right...

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If...

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If...

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest...

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest...

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil;...

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil;...

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has...

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has...

To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.

To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.

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

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

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to...

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to...

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the...

How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the...

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed:...

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed:...

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but...

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but...

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it...

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it...

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the...

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the...

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get...

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get...

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun...

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun...

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real...

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real...