John Ruskin Quotes About Slavery

Quotes about: Slavery

• The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.

  John Ruskin

  Political, Slavery, Politics

  John Ruskin (1866). “The Crown of Wild Olive: Three Lectures on Work, Traffic and War”, p.113

• Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

  John Ruskin

  Ambition, Slavery, Whips

• It does not matter what the whip is; it is none the less a whip, because you have cut thongs for it out of your own souls.

  John Ruskin

  Cutting, Soul, Doe

  John Ruskin (1866). “The Crown of Wild Olive: Three Lectures on Work, Traffic, and War”, p.194

• To yield reverence to another, to hold ourselves and our lives at his disposal, is not slavery; often, it is the noblest state in which a man can live in this world.

  John Ruskin

  Men, Yield, World

  John Ruskin (2013). “Selections and Essays”, p.225, Courier Corporation

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