... the yearly expenses of the existing religious systemexceed in these United States twenty millions of dollars. Twenty millions! For teaching what? Things unseen and causes unknown!... Twenty millions would more than suffice to make us wise; and alas! do… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
... 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 Copy Share Image
I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mahomedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family. — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
... 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 Copy Share Image
If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance. — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
Moral truth, resting entirely upon the ascertained consequences of actions, supposes a process of observation and reasoning. — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You have heard of, and studied various systems of philosophy; but real philosophy is opposed to all systems. — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
... 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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
