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
heart men world
Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts.
men justice atheism
I certainly never believed, more or less, in the "essential doctrines" of Christianity, which represent God as the predestinator of men to sin and perdition, and Christ as their rescuer from that doom. I never was more or less behuiled by the trickery of language by which the perdition of man is made out to be justice, and his redemption to be mercy.
men honorable-man people
the systematic abuse with which the newspapers of one side assail every candidate coming forward on the other, is the cause of many honorable men, who have a regard to their reputation, being deterred from entering public life; and of the people being thus deprived of some better servants than any they have.
men saws discrimination
I saw no poor men, except a few intemperate ones. I saw some very poor women; but God and man know that the time has not come for women to make their injuries even heard of.
men class suffering
During the present interval between the feudal age and the coming time, when life and its occupations will be freely thrown open to women as to men, the condition of the female working classes is such that if its sufferings were but made known, emotions of horror and shame would tremble through the whole of society.
men leisure degrees
Leisure, some degree of it, is necessary to the health of every man's spirit.
moving men atmosphere
Religion is a temper, not a pursuit. It is the moral atmosphere in which human beings are to live and move. Men do not live to breathe: they breathe to live.
men lasts heed
Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right, for that shall bring a man peace at the last.
education men views
Women, like men, must be educated with a view to action, or their studies cannot be called education.
marriage men glances
Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.
class efforts
The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always,takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.
believe believing cannot english-writer help prove
We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.
best great ideas performs small
A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties.
writing sacrifice order
if I believed that the choice lay between a sacrifice of the completest order of biography and that of the inviolability of private epistolary correspondence, I could not hesitate for a moment. I would keep the old and precious privacy,-the inestimable right of every one who has a friend and can write to him, - I would keep our written confidence from being made biographical material, as anxiously as I would keep our spoken conversation from being noted down for the good of society.