John Ruskin Quotes About Evil

Quotes about: Evil

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

  John Ruskin

  Peace, Winning, Evil

  John Ruskin (2015). “The Two Paths”, p.160, John Ruskin

• I cannot but think it an evil sign of a people when their houses are built to last for one generation only.

  John Ruskin

  Thinking, Evil, People

  John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill (1859). “The True and the Beautiful: In Nature, Art, Morals, and Religion”, p.141

• Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself -my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness -darkness -bitter mockery of herself -is the most desolating.

  John Ruskin

  Evil, Darkness, Clumsiness

• Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.

  John Ruskin

  Power, Light, Evil

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.300, University of Virginia Press

• Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done and all unjust war protracted.

  John Ruskin

  Money, War, Evil

  John Ruskin (1866). “The crown of wild olive”, p.22

• I had no companions to quarrel with, nobody to assist, and nobody to thank... the evil consequence of all this was not, however, what might perhaps have been expected, that I grew up selfish or non affectionate; but that, when affection did come, it came with a violence utterly rampant and unmanageable.

  John Ruskin

  Selfish, Evil, Wickedness

• Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty.

  John Ruskin

  Work, Evil, Labor Day

• Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

  John Ruskin

  Real, Reflection, Evil

• Another of the strange and evil tendencies of the present day is the decoration of the railroad station... There was never more flagrant nor impertinent folly than the smallest portion of ornament in anything connected with the railroads... Railroad architecture has or would have a dignity of its own if it were only left to its work.

  John Ruskin

  Evil, Ornaments, Railroads

• Multitudes think they like to do evil; yet no man ever really enjoyed doing evil since God made the world.

  John Ruskin

  Men, Thinking, Evil

  John Ruskin (1851). “The Stones of Venice: The foundations”, p.44

• What is in reality cowardice and faithlessness, we call charity, and consider it the part of benevolence sometimes to forgive men's evil practice for the sake of their accurate faith, and sometimes to forgive their confessed heresy for the sake of their admirable practice.

  John Ruskin

  Reality, Men, Practice

  John Ruskin (1853). “The Stones of Venice”, p.109

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