John Ruskin Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
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The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.
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Exercise is labor without weariness.
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Must all of them and their families be physically abolished? Of course not? They must be 'liquidated' or melted in the hot fire of exile and labor into the proletarian masses.
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There is no surer token of a little mind than to imagine that anything in the way of physical labor is dishonoring.
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I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.
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It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institution of private property.
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They worked hard to not give labor a dedicated slot today.
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All that serves labor serves the Nation. All ^ that harms labor is treason to America. No line can be drawn between these two. If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool. There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.
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I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights.
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We should live and labor in our time that what came to us as a seed may go to the next generation as blossom, and what came to us as blossom, may go to them as fruit. This is what we mean by progress.
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We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils.
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Those who have been too long at their labor, who have drunk too long at the cup of voluptuousness, who feel they have become temporarily inhumane, who are tormented by their families, who find life sad and love ephemeral......they should all eat chocolate and they will be comforted.
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Laziness is the mother of all evils.
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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
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Almost every profession I look at where you require human labor or you require intelligence, I see computers being able to do better than us within the next 10 years. I'm talking about a mass replacement of humans with artificial intelligence and robots.
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I am strongly drawn to a frugal life and am often oppressively aware that I am engrossing an undue amount of the labor of my fellow men.
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So May 4th in the labor movement has always been an important date.
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None of the evils which totalitarianism ... claims to remedy is worse than totalitarianism itself.
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We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.
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It was interesting to think that the very first liquid ever poured on the Moon, and the first food eaten there, were communion elements.
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Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty.
