John Ruskin Quotes

For men to feel their souls withering within them, unthanked, to find their whole being sunk into an unrecognized abyss, to be counted off into a heap of mechanism numbered with its wheels, and weighed with its hammer strokes - this, nature bade not, - this, God blesses not, - this, humanity for no long time is able to endure.

John Ruskin

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• Your generous part in my liberation is taken by the world for the revelation of the fact, that the United States are resolved not to allow the despots of the world to trample on oppressed humanity.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • World
  • Taken
  • Humanity

• Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Technology
  • Humanity
  • Wrong

• One of the greatest gifts God ever gave to humanity was that of liberty. We love freedom and bloom under it. We cannot and should not try to force people to live by a certain religious code. To do so negates our free will.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • God
  • Humanity
  • Liberty

• There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Earth
  • Humanity
  • Nothing

• I'm a mom, so I have to be comfortable. Jeans are a staple - I have way too many in my closet! It's warm in Florida, so I wear jeans and a tank top every day. I love my True Religions, my Rich and Skinny, and Citizens of Humanity. But I also love getting dressed up!

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • True
  • Humanity
  • Rich

• 'The Reader' is about a young man's experience of falling in love with somebody who, it turns out, made some choices that were unavoidable in her life that resulted in horrific crimes against humanity.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Love
  • Experience

• Acting changed my life. I say God and then acting. Because becoming an actor, I've gained a new respect for humanity. And I believe that it's also helped me to grow as a person. It's been one of the biggest blessings and expressions that I could have ever been gifted with.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Life
  • God
  • Believe

• I'm never going to be able to leave Mexico, really. It would be foolish of me to do it. I would be wasting such a great opportunity that the accident of life, or destiny, gave me, which is to be Mexican. If we would make 'Lord of the Rings' analogies, I think Mexico City is Middle-earth. That's where the fight of humanity is.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Life
  • Great
  • Earth

• It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Believe
  • Souls
  • Heresy

• I've seen incredible acts of humanity in the military because people put themselves aside, and it's about the other person.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Humanity
  • Military

• Lo! with a little rodI did but touch the honey of romance -And must I lose a soul's inheritance?

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Lose
  • Souls
  • Romance

• A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Country
  • Humanity

• The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save humanity. It ended, again like the Salvation Army, by running flop-houses and disturbing the peace.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Peace
  • Running
  • Humanity

• Cultural and ethnic diversity benefit humanity’s future, survival, strength and excellence, promoting what I call cultural vigour, similar to the way in which molecular and genetic diversity promote 'hybrid vigor' in nature and thus strength, resilience and a higher potential for a problem-free future.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Nature
  • Future
  • Free

• I am utterly convinced that Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War, that nations will eventually unite not to destroy but to edify, and that the future will belong to those who have done the most for the sake of suffering humanity.

  

  Louis Pasteur
  • Done
  • War
  • Future

• The great moral teachers of humanity were, in a way, artistic geniuses in the art of living.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Great
  • Humanity
  • Moral

• Are we not still guilty, if to a less violent degree, of recklessness, of improvidence with regard to our future and our humanity? War is not the only arena where peace is done to death. Wherever suffering is ignored, there will be the seeds of conflict, for suffering degrades and embitters and enrages.

  

  Aung San Suu Kyi
  • Done
  • War
  • Future

• The problem with being a film actress or a movie star is that people see you so huge that somehow you're visually massive or somehow you're in some removed space, which is a television or wherever. It somehow takes your humanity.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • People
  • Movie
  • Space

• Everybody's funny if you love them.

  

  Anna Torv
  • Funny

• And then there creptA little noiseless noise among the leaves,Born of the very sigh that silence heaves.

  

  John Keats
  • Silence

• I started working when I was seven, and ever since then I've been saving for an apartment. Even before that I had a little jam jar designated for my apartment money.

  

  Keira Knightley
  • Money

• If there are none [gods], All our toil is without meaning.

  

  Euripides
  • Meaning
  • Gods
  • Toil

• For men to feel their souls withering within them, unthanked, to find their whole being sunk into an unrecognized abyss, to be counted off into a heap of mechanism numbered with its wheels, and weighed with its hammer strokes - this, nature bade not, - this, God blesses not, - this, humanity for no long time is able to endure.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Humanity
  • Souls
  • Mechanism