Logo
Quote by Mary Wollstonecraft
If women be educated for dependence that is, to act according to t

If women be educated for dependence that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop? – Mary Wollstonecraft

Other quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft

Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense. – Mary Wollstonecraft

Category:
strength
Author
Mary Wollstonecraft
Read Quote

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. – Mary Wollstonecraft

Category:
Knowledge
Author
Mary Wollstonecraft
Read Quote

In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century. – Mary Wollstonecraft

Category:
Age
Author
Mary Wollstonecraft
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
power
category

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination. – Robert Frost

Category:
power

Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity. – M. Scott Peck

Category:
power

Knowing that you are completely forgiven destroys the power of sin in your life. – Joseph Prince

Category:
power

In the past a leader was a boss. Todays leaders must be partners with their people… they no longer can lead solely based on positional power. – Ken Blanchard

Category:
power

Random Quotes

All quotation dictionaries stand on the shoulders of their predecessors, which must be consulted as part of the effort to make sure that no famous quotations are missed. – Fred R. Shapiro, The Yale Book of Quotations, 2006 (Acknowledgements)

Category:
Quotations

Waking up with a bad head in the morning is difficult sometimes. – Caroline Corr

Category:
Morning

But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person. – Mikhail Bakunin

Category:
Faith

Our moral authority is as important, if not more important, than our troop strength or our high-tech weapons. We are rapidly losing that moral authority, not only in the Arab world but all over the world. – Robert Reich

Category:
strength