Harriet Martineau Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• My own feeling of concern arises from seeing how much moral injury and suffering is created by the superstitions of the Christian mythology.

  Harriet Martineau

  Christian, Feelings, Suffering

  Harriet Martineau, Maria Weston Chapman (2010). “Harriet Martineau's Autobiography”, p.444, Cambridge University Press

• During the present interval between the feudal age and the coming time, when life and its occupations will be freely thrown open to women as to men, the condition of the female working classes is such that if its sufferings were but made known, emotions of horror and shame would tremble through the whole of society.

  Harriet Martineau

  Men, Class, Suffering

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.178

• it is the worst humiliation and grievance of the suffering, that they cause suffering.

  Harriet Martineau

  Suffering, Causes, Illness

  Harriet Martineau (1845). “Life in the Sick-room: Essays”, p.195

• For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchenthan witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe.

  Harriet Martineau

  Europe, Class, Suffering

  "Society in America". Book by Harriet Martineau, 1837.

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