The interactions of business and culture, one upon the other, form one of the least explored phases of history. For such a study, no city would appear better fixed than Florence, so richly dowered with both economic and spiritual vitality. — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
While it is generally agreed that the visible expressions and agencies are necessary instruments, civilization seems to depend far more fundamentally upon the moral… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
Unless one's philosophy is all-inclusive, nothing can be understood. — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
The interactions of business and culture, one upon the other, form one of the least explored phases of history. For such a study, no… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
The woman's bill of rights is, unhappily, long overdue. It should have run along with the rights of man in the eighteenth century. Its drag as to time of official proclamation is a drag as to social vision. And even if equal rights were now written into the law of our land, it would be so inadequate today as a… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share
To ignore [the] great social facts -- political facts, if you please -- and over-emphasize the old moral responsibility of the 'domestic' mother is… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
In their (women) quest for rights they have naturally placed emphasis on their wrongs rather than their achievements and possessions, and have retold history… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
The trade agreement has become a rather distinct feature of the American labor movement. ... It is based on the idea that labor shall… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
Every great creative idea, formulated as a philosophy, has a social setting - in time, in a geographical location, in a political economy, in a matrix of interests and knowledge. It is not a free-swinging phenomenon like a balloon without moorings. It is not produced in a vacuum and, being creative, it does not work in a vacuum. Nurtured on… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share
![“To ignore [the] great social facts -- political facts, if you please -- and over-emphasize the old moral responsibility of the 'domestic' mother is a hollow mockery and betrays a hopeless ignorance of industrial and urban conditions in the Twentieth Century. ... Everything that counts in the…” quote by Mary Ritter Beard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/598/mary-ritter-beard-20226_betray_to-ignore-the-great-social-facts-politic_596334.jpg)
