Quotes by Frances Wright

Frances Wright

… so far from entrenching human conduct within the gentle barriers of peace and love, religion has ever been, and now is, the deepest source of contentions, wars, persecutions for conscience sake, angry words, angry feelings, backbitings, slanders, suspicions, false judgments, evil interpretations, unwise, unjust, injurious, inconsistent actions.

Evil

Feelings

War

… the happiness of a people is the only rational object of government, and the only object for which a people, free to choose, can have a government at all.

Government

Happiness

People

An opinion, right or wrong, can never constitute a moral offense, nor be in itself a moral obligation. It may be mistaken; it may involve an absurdity, or a contradiction. It is a truth; or it is an error: it can never be a crime or a virtue.

Errors

May

Opinion

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 the evidence of your senses and the conviction of your understanding.

Admitting

Like You

Understanding

Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good man, a knave.

Clever

Good Man

Men

Do not confound noise with fame. The man who is remembered, is not always honored.

Fame

Men

Noise

Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.

Community

Equality

Inspirational

Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction.

Diversity

Justice

Rights

Fathers and husbands! do ye not also understand this fact? Do ye not see how, in the mental bondage of your wives and fair companions, ye yourselves are bound?

Father

Husband

Wife

He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles.

Animal

Exercise

Men

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Admitting

Animal

Arrogance

Atheism

Bird

Blessing

Challenges

Children

Christian

Church

Cities

Clever

Community

Country

Courage

Curiosity

Disappointment

Diversity

Dream

Ears

Equality

Errors

Evil

Exercise

Facts

Fame

Father

Feelings

Freedom

Generations

Giving

Good Man

Government

Growth

Guides

Happiness

Heart

House

Humans

Husband

Hypocrisy

Ignorance

Imagination

Inspirational

Justice

Law

Leadership

Leisure

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Quotes by Frances Wright

Frances Wright

… the happiness of a people is the only rational object of government, and the only object for which a people, free to choose, can have a government at all.

An opinion, right or wrong, can never constitute a moral offense, nor be in itself a moral obligation. It may be mistaken; it may involve an absurdity, or a contradiction. It is a truth; or it is an error: it can never be a crime or a virtue.

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 the evidence of your senses and the conviction of your understanding.

Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good man, a knave.

Do not confound noise with fame. The man who is remembered, is not always honored.

Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.

Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction.

Fathers and husbands! do ye not also understand this fact? Do ye not see how, in the mental bondage of your wives and fair companions, ye yourselves are bound?

He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles.

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