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You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

John Ruskin
Peace, Winning, Evil
John Ruskin (2015). “The Two Paths”, p.160, John Ruskin

I cannot but think it an evil sign of a people when their houses are built to last for one generation only.

John Ruskin
Thinking, Evil, People
John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill (1859). “The True and the Beautiful: In Nature, Art, Morals, and Religion”, p.141

Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done and all unjust war protracted.

John Ruskin
Money, War, Evil
John Ruskin (1866). “The crown of wild olive”, p.22

I had no companions to quarrel with, nobody to assist, and nobody to thank... the evil consequence of all this was not, however, what might perhaps have been expected, that I grew up selfish or non affectionate; but that, when affection did come, it came with a violence utterly rampant and unmanageable.

John Ruskin
Selfish, Evil, Wickedness

Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.

John Ruskin
Power, Light, Evil
John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.300, University of Virginia Press

Multitudes think they like to do evil; yet no man ever really enjoyed doing evil since God made the world.

John Ruskin
Men, Thinking, Evil
John Ruskin (1851). “The Stones of Venice: The foundations”, p.44

Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself -my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness -darkness -bitter mockery of herself -is the most desolating.

John Ruskin
Evil, Darkness, Clumsiness

Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty.

John Ruskin
Work, Evil, Labor Day

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

John Ruskin
Real, Reflection, Evil

Another of the strange and evil tendencies of the present day is the decoration of the railroad station... There was never more flagrant nor impertinent folly than the smallest portion of ornament in anything connected with the railroads... Railroad architecture has or would have a dignity of its own if it were only left to its work.

John Ruskin
Evil, Ornaments, Railroads

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