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Men Quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft
- Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out.
- I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.
- I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage;…
- Let not men then in the pride of power, use the same arguments that tyrannic kings and venal ministers have used, and fallaciously assert that…
- Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
- A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous.
- Let woman share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of man; for she must grow more perfect when emancipated ...
- Women do not want power over men, they want power over themselves.
- When man, governed by reasonable laws, enjoys his natural freedom, let him despise woman, if she do not share it with him.
- When a man seduces a woman, it should, I think, be termed a left-handed marriage.
- Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of…
- Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly…
- If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same…
- The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized.
- Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.
- Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that…
- What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave…
- It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.
- ...men endeavor to sink us still lower, merely to render us alluring objects for a moment; and women, intoxicated by the adoration which men, under…
- Weakness may excite tenderness, and gratify the arrogant pride of man; but the lordly caresses of a protector will not gratify a noble mind that…
- Make them free, and they will quickly become wise and virtous, as men become more so; for the improvement must be mutual, or the injustice…
- No man chooses evil because it's evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
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