Analysis Quote by Mary Ritter Beard

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

Unless one's philosophy is all-inclusive, nothing can be understood.

— Mary Ritter Beard

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

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…

— Mary Ritter Beard

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

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

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

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

Comfort, however, easily merges into license.

— Mary Ritter Beard

Every great creative idea, formulated as a philosophy, has a social setting - in time, in a geographical location, in a political economy, in…

— Mary Ritter Beard

The origin of the labor movement lies in self-defense.

— Mary Ritter Beard

Leisure for reverie, gay or somber, does much to enrich life.

— Mary Ritter Beard