Harriet Martineau
Harriet Martineau
Harriet Martineauwas a British social theorist and Whig writer, often cited as the first female sociologist...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth12 June 1802
Harriet Martineau quotes about
voice people silent
The voice of a whole people goes up in the silent workings of an institution.
religion pursuit temper
Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.
heart men world
Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts.
faculty theory universe
There is no theory of a God, of an author of Nature, of an origin of the Universe, which is not utterly repugnant to my faculties. . .
heart taught-us mind
The lesson taught us by these kindly commentators on my present experience is that dogmatic faith compels the best minds and hearts to narrowness and insolence.
religious philosophy believe
I hope and believe my co-religionists understand and admit that I disclaim their theology in toto, and that by no twisting of language or darkening of its meanings can I be made to have any thing whatever in common with them about religious matters... they must take my word for it that there is nothing in common between their theology and my philosophy.
ideas pennies affection
The Penny Post will do more for the circulation of ideas, for the fostering of domestic affections, for the humanizing of the mass generally, than any other single measure that our national wit can devise.
strong years feelings
While feeling far less injured by toil than my friends took for granted I must be, I yet was always aware of the strong probability that my life would end as the lives of hard literary workers usually end, - in paralysis, with months or years of imbecility.
hope fear government
Even if their outward fortunes could be absolutely equalized, there would be, from individual constitution alone, an aristocracy and a democracy in every land. The fearful by nature would compose an aristocracy, the hopeful by nature a democracy, were all other causes of divergence done away.
struggle may comfort
[On being deaf:] We must struggle for whatever may be had, without encroaching on the comfort of others.
monotonous-life stills monotonous
I loved, as I still love, the most monotonous life possible ...
identity matter
it matters infinitely less what we do than what we are.
heart sacrifice pressure
I have no sympathy for those who, under any pressure of circumstances, sacrifice their heart's-love for legal prostitution.
dream song echoes
Day-thoughts feed nightly dreams; And sorrow tracketh wrong, As echo follows song.