Frances Wright Quotes

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• It has already been observed that women, wherever placed, however high or low in the scale of cultivation, hold the destinies of human kind. Men…
• Be not afraid! In admitting a creator, refuse not to examine his creation; and take not the assertions of creatures like yourselves, in place of…
• Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
• All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know…
• If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things,…
• Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.
• Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others -…
• The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man,…
• The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when…
• A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.
• And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.
• Awaken its powers, and it will respect itself.
• But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of the generous of all civilized nations, may we not…
• It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality…
• Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
• Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against.
• Man has been adjudged a social animal.
• Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something…
• Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then…
• Speak of change, and the world is in alarm. And yet where do we not see change?

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