"Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government."

Government, Women, Being

38

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government."

Exlpore more Government quotes

"I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world."

Lyndon B. Johnson, American President

Government, Society, People, Building

"No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision."

Barbara Tuchman, American Historian

Government, Decision

"Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles."

Woodrow Wilson, American President

Government, Democracy, Principles

"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."

Will Rogers, American Actor

Government, Being

"In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population."

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

Government, Politics, Power, Democracy, Society

"On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does."

Will Rogers, American Actor

Government, People, Being, Democracy

"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Government, Aristocracy, Democracy

"There are no doubts that western governments are willfully inducing radiation sickness into segments of their city populations."

Steven Magee, British Author

Government, Health, Danger, Truth

"The ugliest government is the one which is spreading fear to its own people! The finest government is the one which encourages its own people to criticize the government harshly."

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Government, Power, Truth, Regret, Society

"Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government."

Richard M. Nixon, American President

Government, Doctrine, Questioning

Explore more quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft

"In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason."

Being, Exercise, Fact, Reason

"Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority."

Man, Men, Women, Sex, Superiority

"I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man."

Love, Man, Reason

"Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?"

Fear, Fancy, Grave, Hell

"In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century."

Age, Family, Character, Opinion

"Virtue can only flourish among equals."

Virtue,

"It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust."

Joy, Sorrow, Spirit

"Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers."

Man, Men, Women, Fathers, Husbands

"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye."

Soul, Purpose, Eye, May

"It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners."

Time, Dignity, Effect, Revolution