Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes About Property

Quotes about: Property

• 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; and found it more convenient to indulge his depraved appetites, and pay an exorbitant price for absolution, than listen to the suggestions of reason, and work out his own salvation: in a word, was not the separation of religion from morality the work of the priests...?

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Dark, Men, Work Out

  Mary Wollstonecraft (1997). “The Vindications: The Rights of Men and The Rights of Woman”, p.72, Broadview Press

• 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

  Dark, Men, Church

  Mary Wollstonecraft (1995). “Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Men and a Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Hints”, p.40, Cambridge University Press

• From the respect paid to property flow, as from a poisoned fountain, most of the evils and vices which render this world such a dreary scene to the contemplative mind.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Evil, Mind, World

  Mary Wollstonecraft, Philip Barnard, Stephen Shapiro (2013). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: Abridged with Related Texts”, p.60, Hackett Publishing

• Hereditary property sophisticates the mind, and the unfortunate victims to it ... swathed from their birth, seldom exert the locomotive faculty of body or mind; and, thus viewing every thing through one medium, and that a false one, they are unable to discern in what true merit and happiness consist.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Mind, Body, Merit

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2015). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, p.174, Booklassic

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