Quotes by Millicent Fawcett

Millicent Fawcett

A demand for commodities is not a demand for labor. The demand for labor is determined by the amount of capital directly devoted to the remuneration of labor: the demand for commodities simply determines in what direction labor shall be employed.

Commodity

Demand

Determined

A large part of the present anxiety to improve the education of girls and women is also due to the conviction that the political disabilities of women will not be maintained.

Anxiety

Girl

Political

capital is the result of saving, and not of spending. The spendthrift who wastes his substance in riotous living decreases the capital of the country, and therefore the excuse often made for extravagance, that it is good for trade, is based upon false notions respecting capital.

Country

Extravagance

Substance

Courage calls to courage everywhere, and its voice cannot be denied.

Courage

Denied

Voice

Every one must be familiar with the often expressed opinion, that, as a practical politician, Mr. Mill’s career was essentially a failure.

Careers

Opinion

Politician

I can honestly say that if I was told at this moment that I was dying, not my first, not my second, but certainly my third thought would be that I should never see Italy again.

Dying

Firsts

Would Be

I can never feel that setting fire to houses and churches and litter boxes and destroying valuable pictures really helps to convince people that women ought to be enfranchised.

Fire

People

Sex

If, however, the success of a politician is to be measured by the degree in which he is able personally to influence the course of politics, and attach to himself a school of political thought, then Mr. Mill, in the best meaning of the words, has succeeded.

Degrees

Political

School

No circumstance would prevent over-population so effectually as a general raising of the customary standard of comfort among the poorer classes. If they had accustomed themselves to a more comfortable style of living, they would use every effort not again to sink below it.

Class

Effort

Growth

Of the influence of Mr. Mill’s personal character on those who were his political associates, it is difficult to speak too warmly.

Character

Influence

Political

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Commodity

Country

Courage

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Denied

Determined

Doubt

Dying

Effort

Excuse

Extravagance

Fire

Firsts

Girl

Growth

Influence

Littles

Mean

Men

Mistake

Movement

Numbers

Opinion

People

Political

Political Opinions

Politician

School

Sex

Stronger

Substance

Together

Voice

Wealth

Women's Suffrage

Would Be

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Quotes by Millicent Fawcett

Millicent Fawcett

A demand for commodities is not a demand for labor. The demand for labor is determined by the amount of capital directly devoted to the remuneration of labor: the demand for commodities simply determines in what direction labor shall be employed.

A large part of the present anxiety to improve the education of girls and women is also due to the conviction that the political disabilities of women will not be maintained.

capital is the result of saving, and not of spending. The spendthrift who wastes his substance in riotous living decreases the capital of the country, and therefore the excuse often made for extravagance, that it is good for trade, is based upon false notions respecting capital.

Courage calls to courage everywhere, and its voice cannot be denied.

Every one must be familiar with the often expressed opinion, that, as a practical politician, Mr. Mill’s career was essentially a failure.

I can honestly say that if I was told at this moment that I was dying, not my first, not my second, but certainly my third thought would be that I should never see Italy again.

I can never feel that setting fire to houses and churches and litter boxes and destroying valuable pictures really helps to convince people that women ought to be enfranchised.

If, however, the success of a politician is to be measured by the degree in which he is able personally to influence the course of politics, and attach to himself a school of political thought, then Mr. Mill, in the best meaning of the words, has succeeded.

No circumstance would prevent over-population so effectually as a general raising of the customary standard of comfort among the poorer classes. If they had accustomed themselves to a more comfortable style of living, they would use every effort not again to sink below it.

Of the influence of Mr. Mill’s personal character on those who were his political associates, it is difficult to speak too warmly.

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