95 Quotes by Frances Wright

Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.

However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly.

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

Awaken its powers, and it will respect itself.

Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.

If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.

It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential. If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance. Let women stand where they may in the scale of improvement, their position decides that of the race.

A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.

Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.