Scottish - Writer | September 6, 1795 - December 13, 1852
We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and, therefore, as it can never present us with indisputable facts, so must it ever be at once a source of error and contention.
Frances Wright
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We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men.
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If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.
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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.
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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.
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Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
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How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers.
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The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.
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Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ.
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