Quotes by Ruskin, John

If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is >>

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more >>

The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Ch >>

Quotations about Liberty

Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world. >>

When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whethe >>

They who give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety >>

How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty: most treacherous, indeed, of all phantoms; for the feeblest ray of reason might surely show us, that not only its attainment, but its being, was impossible. There is no such thing in the universe. There can never be. The stars have it not; the earth has it not; the sea has it not; and we men have the mockery and semblance of it only for our heaviest punishment.

Ruskin, John