John Ruskin Wealth Quotations

What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant ''well-being,'' and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.

What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant well-being, and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.

Why is one man richer than another? Because he is more industrious, more persevering and more sagacious.

That which seems to be wealth may in verity be only the gilded index of far reaching ruin

I desire ... to leave this one great fact clearly stated. THERE IS NO WEALTH BUT LIFE.

Inequalities of wealth, unjustly established, have assuredly injured the nation in which they exist during their establishment; and, unjustly directed, they injure it yet more during their existence. But inequalities of wealth justly established, benefit the nation in the course of their establishment; and, nobly used, aid it yet more by their existence.

There is no wealth but life.