Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes About Energy

Quotes about: Energy

• People thinking for themselves have more energy in their voice, than any government, which it is possible for human wisdom to invent; and every government not aware of this sacred truth will, at some period, be suddenly overturned.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Thinking, Government, Voice

  Mary Wollstonecraft, Janet Todd (1999). “A Vindication of the Rights of Men; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution”, p.357, Oxford Paperbacks

• The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Courage, Character, Men

  Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark Letter 19 (1796)

• An immoderate fondness for dress, for pleasure, and for sway, are the passions of savages; the passions that occupy those uncivilized beings who have not yet extended the dominion of the mind, or even learned to think with the energy necessary to concatenate that abstract train of thought which produces principles.... that women from their education and the present state of civilized life, are in the same condition, cannotbe controverted.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Passion, Thoughtful, Thinking

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