770 Quotes by John Ruskin

Occult Theft,--Theft which hides itself even from itself, and is legal, respectable, and cowardly,--corrupts the body and soul of man, to the last fibre of them. And the guilty Thieves of Europe, the real sources of all deadly war in it, are the Capitalists

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things.

We are always in these days endeavoring to separate intellect and manual labor; we want one man to be always thinking, and another to be always working, and we call one a gentleman, and the other an operative; whereas the workman ought often to be thinking, and the thinker often to be working, and both should be gentlemen in the best sense.

Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.

For, truly, the man who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

There is no wealth but life.

All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time.

Cookery means…English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of all fruits and herbs and balms and spices; it means carefulness, inventiveness, and watchfulness.