John Ruskin Quotes about Politics

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The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.

The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.

John Ruskin

Political, Slavery, Politics

John Ruskin (1866). “The Crown of Wild Olive: Three Lectures on Work, Traffic and War”, p.113

Production does not consist in things laboriously made, but in things serviceably consumable; and the question for the nation is not how much labour it employs, but how much life it produces.

John Ruskin

Political, Doe, Politics

John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.269, University of Virginia Press