Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes About Mankind

Quotes about: Mankind

• How frequently has melancholy and even misanthropy taken possession of me, when the world has disgusted me, and friends have proven unkind. I have then considered myself as a particle broken off from the grand mass of mankind.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Taken, Broken, World

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2007). “Letters from Scandinavia”, p.13, Lulu.com

• There must be more equality established in society, or morality will never gain ground, and this virtuous equakity will not rest firmly even when founded on a rock, if one half of mankind be chained to its bottom by fate, for they will be continually undermining it through ignorance or pride

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Ignorance, Fate, Pride

• Love from its very nature must be transitory. To seek for a secret that would render it constant would be as wild a search as for the philosopher’s stone or the grand panacea: and the discovery would be equally useless, or rather pernicious to mankind. The most holy band of society is friendship.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Discovery, Secret, Would Be

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2015). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, p.40, Booklassic

• ... wealth and female softness equally tend to debase mankind!

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Female, Wealth, Mankind

  Mary Wollstonecraft, Philip Barnard, Stephen Shapiro (2013). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: Abridged with Related Texts”, p.32, Hackett Publishing

• To improve both sexes they ought, not only in private families, but in public schools, to be educated together. If marriage be the cement of society, mankind should all be educated after the same model, or the intercourse of the sexes will never deserve the name of fellowship.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Marriage, Sex, School

  Mary Wollstonecraft, Philip Barnard, Stephen Shapiro (2013). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: Abridged with Related Texts”, p.70, Hackett Publishing

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