Quotes of: Vindicated Keyword

I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Lussurioso: "Welcome, be not far off, we must be better acquainted. Push, be bold with us, thy hand!" Vindice: "With all my heart, i'faith. How dost, sweet musk-cat? When shall we lie together?" Lussurioso: (aside) "Wondrous knave! Gather him into bo...

The Revenger's Tragedy

Love, far from being blind, is the very emotion that allows us to see.

A Vindication of Love: Reclaiming Romance for the Twenty-first Century

Too often, it is only love that makes us engaged enough, alert enough, alive enough to see

A Vindication of Love: Reclaiming Romance for the Twenty-first Century

Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

What but a pestilential vapour can hover over society when its chief director is only instructed in the invention of crimes, or the stupid routine of childish ceremonies?

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Tradition is the living faith of the dead, traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. And, I suppose I should add, it is traditionalism that gives tradition such a bad name.

The Vindication of Tradition: The 1983 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities

[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex.

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity - and make them, as a part of the human species, labour by reforming themselves to reform the world. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from loca...

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the Negroes our slaves, as we do, cannot be vindicated by any thing we can find there, but is condemned by the whole of divine reve...

Samuel Hopkins

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 mank...

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

At its strongest and wildest and most authentic, love is a demon. It is a religion, a high-risk adventure, an act of heroism. Love is ecstasy and injury, transcendence and danger, altruism and excess. In many ways, it is a divine madness.

A Vindication of Love: Reclaiming Romance for the Twenty-first Century

I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentime...

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

I don't need to be vindicated, and I don't want attention.

Ray Bradbury

I set out to create a means whereby music could be a way of vindicating the rights of the masses.

Gustavo Dudamel

Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.

Mason Cooley

Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.

Randall Terry