John Ruskin Quotes About Crime

Quotes about: Crime

• One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

  John Ruskin

  Change, Long, Impossible

• Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

  John Ruskin

  Hands, Punishment, Prevention

  "Notes on the General Principles of Employment for the Destitute and Criminal Classes". Book by John Ruskin, 1868.

• As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime.

  John Ruskin

  Land, Long, Dresses

  John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill (1860). “The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals and Religion: Selected from the Works of John Ruskin...”, p.422

• Drunkenness is not only the cause of crime, but it is crime; and if any encourage drunkenness for the sake of the profit derived from the sale of drink, they are guilty of a form of moral assassination as criminal as any that has ever been practiced by the braves of any country or of any age.

  John Ruskin

  Country, Brave, Age

• As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime. In due time, when we have nothing better to set people to work at, it may be right to let them make lace and cut jewels; but as long as there are any who have no blankets for their beds, and no rags for their bodies, so long it is blanket-making and tailoring we must set people to work at, not lace.

  John Ruskin

  Cutting, Jewels, Land

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