Harriet Martineau
Harriet Martineau
Harriet Martineauwas a British social theorist and Whig writer, often cited as the first female sociologist...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth12 June 1802
law creative may
Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.
modesty fidelity retiring
Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.
god religious sentiments
The highest condition of the religious sentiment is when. . . the worshiper not only sees God everywhere, but sees nothing which is not full of God.
time ideas soul
A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.
race understanding independence
. . . is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race?
men lasts heed
Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right, for that shall bring a man peace at the last.
class excellence moral
Moral excellence has no regard to classes and professions.
voice people silent
The voice of a whole people goes up in the silent workings of an institution.
religion pursuit temper
Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.
nature healthy facts
But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?
believe trying helping
We do not believe in immortality because we can't prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.
love running country
If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.
power civilization other-half
If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.
grief may disappearance
There is no death to those who perfectly love-only disappearance, which in time may be borne.