After attacking the sacred majesty of Kings, I shall scarcely excite surprise by adding my firm persuasion that every profession, in which great subordination of rank constitutes its power, is highly injurious to morality.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTIf children are to be educated to understand the true principle of patriotism, their mother must be a patriot.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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Few, I believe, have had much affection for mankind, who did not first love their parents, their brothers, sisters, and even the domestic brutes, whom they first played with.
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Men who are inferior to their fellow men, are always most anxious to establish their superiority over women.
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No man chooses evil because it is evil; he just mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
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How much more respectable is the woman who earns her own bread by fulfilling any duty, than the most accomplished beauty!
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The honour of the woman is not made even to depend on her will.
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Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices, rather than to root them out.
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How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?
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Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.
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A little patience, and all will be over.
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Friendship and domestic happiness are continually praised; yet how little is there of either in the world, because it requires more cultivation of mind to keep awake affection, even in our own hearts, than the common run of people suppose.
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As sound politics diffuse liberty, mankind, including woman, will become more wise and virtuous.
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I shall not waste my time in rounding periods, nor in fabricating the turgid bombast of artificial feelings, which, coming from the head, never reach the heart.
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The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.
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I have sighed when obliged to confess that either Nature has made a great difference between man and man, or that the civilization which has hitherto taken place in the world has been very partial.
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It is far better to be often deceived than never to trust; to be disappointed in love, than never to love.
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