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Evil Quotes by John Ruskin
- 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…
- Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.
- Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done and all unjust war protracted.
- Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty.
- I cannot but think it an evil sign of a people when their houses are built to last for one generation only.
- You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.
- Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.
- 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…
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