Best quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft on Man

Checkout quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft on Man

• ‟ No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

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• ‟ The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized.

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• ‟ I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.

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• ‟ Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.

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• ‟ If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.

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• ‟ What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory.

  - Mary Wollstonecraft