John Ruskin Quotes About Liberty

Quotes about: Liberty

• How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty: most treacherous, indeed, of all phantoms; for the feeblest ray of reason might surely show us, that not only its attainment, but its being, was impossible..... There is no such thing in the universe. There can never be. The stars have it not; the earth has it not; the sea has it not; and we men have the mockery and semblance of it only for our heaviest punishment.

  John Ruskin

  Stars, Men, Sea

  John Ruskin “The stones of Venice (cont'd) Seven lamps of architecture. Lectures on architecture and painting, delivered at Edinburgh in Nov. 1853. An inquiry into some of the conditions at present affecting the study of architecture in our schools”

• One evening, when I was yet in my nurse's arms, I wanted to touch the tea urn, which was boiling merrily ... My nurse would have taken me away from the urn, but my mother said "Let him touch it." So I touched it - and that was my first lesson in the meaning of liberty.

  John Ruskin

  Mother, Taken, Nurse

  John Ruskin (1905). “The Works of John Ruskin”

• It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

  John Ruskin

  Liberty, Literature, Honorable

• Wise laws and just restraints are to a noble nation not chains, but chains of mail, -- strength and defense, though something of an incumbrance.

  John Ruskin

  Wise, Law, Liberty

  John Ruskin (1900). “Complete Works”

• How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty.

  John Ruskin

  Men, Liberty, Phantoms

  John Ruskin (1861). “Selections from the writings of John Ruskin ... With a portrait”, p.334

• If there be any one principle more widely than another confessed by every utterance, or more sternly than another imprinted on every atom of the visible creation, that principle is not liberty, but law.

  John Ruskin

  Law, Liberty, Principles

  John Ruskin (1861). “Selections from the writings of John Ruskin ... With a portrait”, p.334

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