"In my opinion it is a grave error……" — Millicent Fenwick
"In my opinion it is a grave error for women to feel that they must move only in women's interests... . What, after all, would we think if men all got together and kept doing things that were supposed to be in the interest of men?"
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12 Quotes by Millicent Fenwick
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Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of…
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We must have government, but we must watch them like a hawk.
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I have come to believe that one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger…
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The business of government is justice.
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You may never reach a solution, but you're never absolved from the responsibility of trying.
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Party organization matters. When the door of a smoke-filled room is closed, there's hardly ever a woman inside.
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Good behavior is everybody's business, and good taste can be everyone's goal.
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You give bureaucrats power over others, and when the others are poor and helpless, nothing matches government. More than any…
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When you're old, everything you do is sort of a miracle.
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Influence comes out of the work that you've done and the things you've stood for. Influence and power shouldn't be…
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The only people who would be in government are those who care more about people than they do about power.
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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