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 RuskinThe history of humanity is not the history of its wars, but the history of its households.
John RuskinThat man is always happy who is in the presence of something which he cannot know to the full, which he is always going on to know.
John RuskinLarge fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.
John Ruskin