Frances Wright quotes are thought-provoking, memorable and inspiring. From views on society and politics to thoughts on love and life, Frances Wright has a lot to say. In this list we present the 10 best Frances Wright quotes, in no particular order. Let yourself get inspired!
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Frances Wright quotes
[Men] are incomprehensible animals… They walk about boasting of their wisdom, strength, and sovereignty, while they have not sense so much as to swallow an apple with the aid of an Eve to put it down their throats.
— Frances Wright
Ambition is the necessary spur of a great mind to great action; when acting upon a weak mind it impels it to absurdity, or sours it with discontent.
— Frances Wright
Of the thousands who have paid homage to virtue, barely one has thought to inspect the pedestal on which it stands.
— Frances Wright
I feel virtuous because my soul is at ease.
— Frances Wright
Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.
— Frances Wright
Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
— Frances Wright
It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor.
— Frances Wright
How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge – just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers.
— Frances Wright
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.
— Frances Wright
If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.
— Frances Wright
Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
— Frances Wright
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