The names of our civic places reflect our values and our aspirations, ... It's wrong to sever the link between civic names and civic virtue.


Gary Ruskin

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Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.
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Ring out false pride in blood and place,/ The civic slander and the spite.
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The walls are raised against honest men in civic life.
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it is the Egyptian people's unprecedented political
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JOHN RUSKIN
There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.
JOHN RUSKIN
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
JOHN RUSKIN
The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.
JOHN RUSKIN
Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.
JOHN RUSKIN
There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little che...
JOHN RUSKIN
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
JOHN RUSKIN
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then th...
JOHN RUSKIN
Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all thi...
JOHN RUSKIN
I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.
JOHN RUSKIN
The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.
JOHN RUSKIN
Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
JOHN RUSKIN
Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.
JOHN RUSKIN
It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is tha...
JOHN RUSKIN
Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
JOHN RUSKIN
Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.
JOHN RUSKIN
All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of ...
JOHN RUSKIN
I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoy...
JOHN RUSKIN
Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something ...
JOHN RUSKIN
All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
JOHN RUSKIN
It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with...
JOHN RUSKIN
Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other ...
JOHN RUSKIN
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book o...
JOHN RUSKIN
The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed...
JOHN RUSKIN
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really ...
JOHN RUSKIN
I've seen the Rhine with younger wave, O'er every obstacle to rave. I see the Rhine in his nat...
BAYARD RUSKIN
The scupltor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature.
BAYARD RUSKIN
Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes awful, never the same for two months together; al...
BAYARD RUSKIN
and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.
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