Frances Wright Quotes

Most popular Frances Wright Quotes

Who speaks of liberty while the human mind is in chains? - Frances Wright quote.
Who speaks of liberty while the human mind is in chains?
— Frances Wright

mind

Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it. - Frances Wright quote.
Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
— Frances Wright

equality

The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy, is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities. - Frances Wright quote.
The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy, is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities.
— Frances Wright A Few Days in Athens: Being the Translation of a Greek Manuscript

wisdom

The man possessed of a dollar feels himself to be not merely one hundred cents richer, but also one hundred cents better than the man who is penniless; so on through all the gradations of earthly possessions—the estimate of our own moral and political importance swelling always in a ratio exactly proportionate to the growth of our purse. - Frances Wright quote.
The man possessed of a dollar feels himself to be not merely one hundred cents richer, but also one hundred cents better than the man who is penniless; so on through all the gradations of earthly possessions—the estimate of our own moral and political importance swelling always in a ratio exactly proportionate to the growth of our purse.
— Frances Wright Course of Popular Lectures

money