So far, therefore, as the science of exchange relates to the advantage of one of the exchanging persons only, it is founded on the ignorance or incapacity of the opposite person. It is therefore a science founded on nescience. This science, alone of sciences, must, by all available means, promulgate and prolong its opposite nescience. It is therefore peculiarly and alone science of darkness. . John Ruskin
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  1. When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always. - Mahatma Gandhi

  2. Buy a gift for a dog, and you'll be amazed at the way it will dance and swerve its tail, but if don't have anything to offer to it, it won't even recognize your arrival; such are the attributes of fake friends. - Michael Bassey Johnson

  3. May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house. - George Carlin

  4. When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly. When people see some things as good, other things become bad. - Lao Tzu

  5. We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we're always sick. - Stefan Molyneux

More Quotes By John Ruskin
  1. It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.

  2. All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.

  3. He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.

  4. To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty

  5. For, truly, the man who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

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