John Ruskin Quotes About Wealth

Quotes about: Wealth

• There is no wealth but life.

  John Ruskin

  Life, Wisdom, Wealth

  'Unto this Last' (1862) essay 4, 77

• There is no wealth but life. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest numbers of noble and happy human beings; that man is richest, who, having perfected the functions of his own life to the utmost, has also the widest helpful influence, both personal, and by means of his possessions, over the lives of others.

  John Ruskin

  Country, Mean, Men

  John Ruskin (2007). “Unto This Last”, p.90, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

• Why is one man richer than another? Because he is more industrious, more persevering and more sagacious.

  John Ruskin

  Men, Wealth, One Man

  John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill (1872). “The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals, and Religion, Selected from the Works of John Ruskin”, p.408

• No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.

  John Ruskin

  Teacher, Money, Artist

  John Ruskin (1868). “pt. VI: Of leaf beauty. pt. VII: Of cloud beauty. pts. VIII-IX: Of ideas of relation”, p.363

• What is really desired, under the name of riches, is essentially, power over men ... this power ... is in direct proportion to the poverty of the men over whom it is exercised, and in inverse proportion to the number of persons who are as rich as ourselves.

  John Ruskin

  Men, Names, Numbers

  John Ruskin (2015). “Unto This Last”, p.244, John Ruskin

• We are, after all, only trustees of the wealth we possess. Without the community and its resources... there would be little wealth for anyone.

  John Ruskin

  Community, Would Be, Charity

• What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant well-being, and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.

  John Ruskin

  Wealth, Certain, Well Being

  John Ruskin (19??). “Works”

• I desire ... to leave this one great fact clearly stated. THERE IS NO WEALTH BUT LIFE.

  John Ruskin

  Desire, Facts, Wealth

  John Ruskin (2007). “Unto This Last”, p.90, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

• Inequalities of wealth, unjustly established, have assuredly injured the nation in which they exist during their establishment; and, unjustly directed, they injure it yet more during their existence. But inequalities of wealth justly established, benefit the nation in the course of their establishment; and, nobly used, aid it yet more by their existence.

  John Ruskin

  Benefits, Wealth, Aids

  John Ruskin (2001). “Unto this Last”, p.29, Electric Book Company

• We need examples of people who, leaving Heaven to decide whether they are to rise in the world, decide for themselves that they will be happy in it, and have resolved to seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity; making the first of possessions, self-possession; and honouring themselves in the harmless pride and calm pursuits of peace.

  John Ruskin

  Pride, Self, People

  John Ruskin, Christine Roth (2004). “The Two Paths”, p.148, Parlor Press LLC

• That which seems to be wealth may in verity be only the gilded index of far reaching ruin

  John Ruskin

  May, Ruins, Wealth

  John Ruskin (2015). “Unto This Last”, p.253, John Ruskin

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