95 Quotes by Frances Wright

The world is full of religion, and full of misery and crime.

It was in this year, 1828, that the standard of "the Christian Party in Politics" was openly unfurled... This was an evident attempt, through the influence of the clergy over the female mind - until this hour lamentably neglected in the United States - to effect a union of Church and State.

The knowledge of one generation is the ignorance of the next.

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?

What were the glories of the sun, if we knew not the gloom of darkness?

The condition of women affords in all countries the best criterion by which to judge the character of men.

the mode of delivering a truth makes, for the most part, as much impression on the mind of the listener as the truth itself.

the language of truth is too simple for inexperienced ears.

You have heard of, and studied various systems of philosophy; but real philosophy is opposed to all systems.