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There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.
— Frances Wright
Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good man, a knave.
— Frances Wright
Credulity is always ridiculous.
— Frances Wright
Moral truth, resting entirely upon the ascertained consequences of actions, supposes a process of observation and reasoning.
— Frances Wright
A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.
— 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
Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
— Frances Wright
Truth is but approved facts.
— Frances Wright
The language of truth is too simple for inexperienced ears.
— Frances Wright
To give liberty to a slave before he understands its value is, perhaps, rather to impose a penalty than to bestow a blessing ...
— Frances Wright
No man can see his own prejudices ...
— Frances Wright
You have heard of, and studied various systems of philosophy; but real philosophy is opposed to all systems.
— Frances Wright
The mode of delivering a truth makes, for the most part, as much impression on the mind of the listener as the truth itself.
— Frances Wright
Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.
— Frances Wright
Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against.
— Frances Wright
If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.
— Frances Wright
Persecution for opinion is the master vice of society.
— Frances Wright
The knowledge of one generation is the ignorance of the next.
— Frances Wright
Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ.
— Frances Wright
The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.
— Frances Wright
And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.
— 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
These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.
— Frances Wright
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.
— Frances Wright
Awaken its powers, and it will respect itself.
— Frances Wright
I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mahomedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family ...
— Frances Wright
Man has been adjudged a social animal.
— Frances Wright
The condition of women affords in all countries the best criterion by which to judge the character of men.
— Frances Wright
The world is full of religion, and full of misery and crime.
— Frances Wright
Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction.
— Frances Wright
I feel virtuous because my soul is at ease.
— Frances Wright