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

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

In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on their feet, not on wheels, and work and war with their arms, not with engine-beams, nor rifles warranted to kill twenty men at a shot before you can see them.

John Ruskin
War, Eye, Men
John Ruskin (2014). “Praeterita”, p.380, Everyman's Library

When the whole world turns clown, and paints itself red with its own hearts blood instead of vermilion, it is something else than comic.

John Ruskin
War, Heart, Blood
John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.278, University of Virginia Press

The history of humanity is not the history of its wars, but the history of its households.

John Ruskin
War, History, Humanity

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