top of page
"Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Earth quotes

"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."

"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."

"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)."

"He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?"

"It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth."

"Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere."

"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."
Explore more quotes by Margaret Fuller

"The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it."

"Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical."

"It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods."

"It should be remarked that, as the principle of liberty is better understood, and more nobly interpreted, a broader protest is made in behalf of women. As men become aware that few have had a fair chance, they are inclined to say that no women have had a fair chance."

"Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking."

"The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency."

"Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman."
bottom of page