It used to be said in antislavery days that a people who would tacitly consent to the enslavement of 4,000,000 human beings were i...ncapable of being just to each other, and I believe this same rule holds with regard to the injustice practiced by men towards women. So long as all men conspire to rob women of the citizen's right to perfect equality in all the privileges and immunities of our so-called "free" government, we can not expect these same men to be capable of perfect justice to each other.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A rake is a composition of all the lowest, most ignoble, degrading, and shameful vices; they all conspire to disgrace his characte...r, and to ruin his fortune; while wine and the pox content which shall soonest and most effectually destroy his constitution.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What arouses the indignation of the honest satirist is not, unless the man is a prig, the fact that people in positions of power o...r influence behave idiotically, or even that they behave wickedly. It is that they conspire successfully to impose upon the public a picture of themselves as so very sagacious, honest and well-intentioned.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The great object of Education should be commensurate with the object of life. It should be a moral one; to teach self-trust: to in...spire the youthful man with an interest in himself; with a curiosity touching his own nature; to acquaint him with the resources of his mind, and to teach him that there is all his strength, and to inflame him with a piety towards the Grand Mind in which he lives. Thus would education conspire with the Divine Providence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea; while the wildest wind...s of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »