John Ruskin Quotes

While advances in scientific research have led to some new and exciting treatments that have enlarged and enhanced the quality and length of human life, we must not lose sight as to what we are trying to accomplish.

Better understanding of the natural world not only enhances all of us as human beings, but can also be harnessed for the better good, leading to improved health and quality of life.

Above and beyond the question of how to grow the economy there is a legitimate concern about how to grow the quality of our lives.

The well-being of the nation is in the well-being of the people.

For every minute that I spin, there is in me the consciousness that I am adding to the nation's wealth.

It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life.

The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations.

Real progress cannot be measured by money alone. We must ensure that economic growth contributes to our quality of life, rather than degrading it

The illusion that consumption - and its correlative, income - is desirable probably stems from too great preoccupation with what Knight calls "one-use goods," such as food and fuel, where the utilization and consumption of the good are tightly bound together in a single act or event. ... any economy in the consumption of fuel that enables us to maintain warmth or to generate power with lessened consumption again leaves us better off. ... there is no great value in consumption itself.

It is production that creates purchasing power, not the printing press!

Life is a series of moments. The quality of attention and action that we bring to each moment determines the quality of our lives.

Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it's to seem long. But in that event, who wants one?

It's how you live that really counts

For the folk-community does not exist on the fictitious value of money but on the results of productive labour, which is what gives money its value.

To live is not a blessing, but to live well.

What we do with the things we have makes the biggest difference in the quality of life

We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.

Is civilization progress? The challenge, I think, is clear; and, as clearly, the final answer will be given not by our amassing of knowledge, or by the discoveries of our science, or by the speed of our aircraft, but by the effect of our civilized activities as a whole have upon the quality of our planet's life-the life of plants and animals as that of men.

Losses of a kind of satisfaction that have no market equivalent don't show up in the calculations of economists.

The quality of our questions determine the quality of our lives.

The happy life is to an extraordinary extent the same as the good life.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.

Life is such a mysterious thing that you are up one day; you are down the next day. A lot of the homeless brothers and sisters who were a success ten years ago, they are now on the street. Maybe ten years later they will be a success, but the crucial question is what is the quality of their life.

When the status and power of women is greater so also is the nation’s general quality of life; when they are lower, so is the quality of life for all.

The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.