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
class excellence moral
Moral excellence has no regard to classes and professions.
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.
sex race iron
All women should inform themselves of the condition of their sex and of their own position. It must necessarily follow that the noblest of them will, sooner or later, put forth a moral power which shall prostrate cant, and burst asunder the bonds (silken to some but cold iron to others) of feudal prejudice and usages. In the meantime is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race? If so, what is the ground of this limitation?
nature healthy facts
But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?
power civilization other-half
If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.
grief may disappearance
There is no death to those who perfectly love-only disappearance, which in time may be borne.
heart men world
Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts.
organization latter mischief
His subject is the "Origin of Species," & not the origin of Organization; & it seems a needless mischief to have opened the latter speculation at all.
inspirational weakness argument
Who is apt, on occasion, to assign a multitude of reasons when one will do? This is a sure sign of weakness in argument.
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. . .
race understanding independence
. . . is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race?
class effort progression
The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.
land mind pieces
There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.