John Ruskin Quotes
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.
Ruskin, John. The Stones of Venice. Vol. 2, Smith, Elder, and Co., 1853, p. 162.
Seneca had been exiled when he wrote this.
James was a Catholic King and did not like Protestants but positively detested Puritans. He made good his and “harried them out of the land” much to the benefit of the American colonies to which they immigrated and the detriment of England. Many of the immigrants to America came for the religious freedom, but in the early days, no sooner did they arrive and become the majority, than they began to discriminate against other religions.
John Ruskin was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, as well as an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, philosopher, prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and political economy.
