Years First Writer Artist Duty The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion. - John Ruskin
Pride Nothing Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride. - John Ruskin
Success May Sense Work People In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it. - John Ruskin
Religion Soul World The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. - John Ruskin
Being Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons. - John Ruskin
Society No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases. - John Ruskin
When I went off to the army when I was 17 years old, I believed in America and the rights of freedom. But today I believe my government is lying to the American people and that my president, George Bush, is a criminal. - Jack Herer
I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society. - Tupac Shakur
I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years. - V. S. Naipaul
As much as I transferred my mother to Elizabeth Shore of The Black Dahlia, as much as her dad mutated into an obsession with crime in general, well, I have thought about other things throughout the years. - James Ellroy