John Ruskin Quotes about Country

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Death is not a journey into an unknown land; it is a voyage home. We are going, not to a strange country, but to our fathers house.

Death is not a journey into an unknown land; it is a voyage home. We are going, not to a strange country, but to our fathers house.

John Ruskin

Sympathy, Country, Father

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.

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

John Ruskin

Country, Numbers, Noble

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

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

John Ruskin

Strength, Country, Don't Give Up

John Ruskin (188?). “Works: Fors clavigera”

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

John Ruskin

Country, Children, Always Trying

It ought to be quite as natural and straightforward a matter for a labourer to take his pension from his parish, because he has deserved well of his parish, as for a man in higher rank to take his pension from his country, because he has deserved well of his country.

John Ruskin

Country, Men, Matter

'Unto this Last' (1862) preface, 6 (4)

Drunkenness is not only the cause of crime, but it is crime; and if any encourage drunkenness for the sake of the profit derived from the sale of drink, they are guilty of a form of moral assassination as criminal as any that has ever been practiced by the braves of any country or of any age.

John Ruskin

Country, Brave, Age

Along the iron veins that traverse the frame of our country, beat and flow the fiery pulses of its exertion, hotter and faster every hour. All vitality is concentrated through those throbbing arteries into the central cities; the country is passed over like a green sea by narrow bridges, and we are thrown back in continually closer crowds on the city gates.

John Ruskin

Country, Sea, Bridges

John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.138, University of Virginia Press