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  • It does not matter what the whip is; it is none the less a whip, because you have cut thongs for it out of your own souls.

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    John Ruskin (1866). “The Crown of Wild Olive: Three Lectures on Work, Traffic, and War”, p.194

  • Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

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

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

  • To yield reverence to another, to hold ourselves and our lives at his disposal, is not slavery; often, it is the noblest state in which a man can live in this world.

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    John Ruskin (2013). “Selections and Essays”, p.225, Courier Corporation
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John Ruskin

  • Born: February 8, 1819
  • Died: January 20, 1900
  • Occupation: Art critic
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