The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things โ not merely industrious, but to love industry โ not merely learned, but to love knowledge โ not merely pure, but to love purity โ not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice.
John RuskinThere is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.
John RuskinNothing can be true which is either complete or vacant; every touch is false which does not suggest more than it represents, and every space is false which represents nothing.
John RuskinBetter the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.
John RuskinWhereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.
John Ruskin