Atheist Quote by Frances Power Cobbe

“Morality may exist in an atheist without any religion, and in a theist with a religion quite unspiritual.” quote by Frances Power Cobbe — Download Open image

“Morality may exist in an atheist without any religion, and in a theist with a religion quite unspiritual.”

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Men give us most rarely that which we really want, not favor, but - Justice. Nothing is easier than to coax them to pet us like children, nothing more difficult than to persuade them to treat us like responsible human beings.

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Our sex bears the disgrace not only of a great deal of genuine poltroonery, but also of much which is mere affectation.

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Ours is the old, old story of every uprising race or class or order. The work of elevation must be wrought by ourselves or…

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[Women's] duty is nothing else than the fulfilment [sic] of the whole moral law, the attainment of every human virtue.

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