Backbiting Quotes by Frances Wright

... the happiness of a people is the only rational object of government, and the only object for which a people, free to choose,…

— Frances Wright

I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mahomedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family.

— Frances Wright

... so far from entrenching human conduct within the gentle barriers of peace and love, religion has ever been, and now is, the deepest…

— Frances Wright

If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.

— Frances Wright

Moral truth, resting entirely upon the ascertained consequences of actions, supposes a process of observation and reasoning.

— Frances Wright

It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important…

— Frances Wright

However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling…

— Frances Wright

You have heard of, and studied various systems of philosophy; but real philosophy is opposed to all systems.

— Frances Wright

Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good…

— Frances Wright

Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.

— Frances Wright

... we have broken down the self-respecting spirit of man with nursery tales and priestly threats, and we dare to assert, that inproportion as…

— Frances Wright

it is not that religion is merely useless, it is mischievous. It is mischievous by its idle terrors; it is mischievous by its false…

— Frances Wright