John Ruskin Quotes

To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

What's right isn't always popular. What's popular isn't always right.

What is right is not always popular.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

A just war is in the long run far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace.

Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong.

Nothing can justify war.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

Let me just say: Peace to you, if you're willing to fight for it.

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars.

Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.

In our quest for peace, we should constantly ask ourselves what we should do to create conditions in which peace can prosper.

War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself, as my generation learned at its school desks in the days of the Kaiser; rather, peace is the emergency in which we all have to prove ourselves.

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

I'm always inspired by people who choose to do what is right, not what is easy.

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

But when will our leaders learn - war is not the answer.

We make war that we may live in peace.

Usually people are ashamed when they do something wrong. People love to live in the darkness... I live in the light. I didn't do anything wrong by saving human life.