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The Subjection of Women quotes

John Stuart Mill

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“Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.” John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women
“What is now called the nature of women is an eminently artificial thing—the result of forced repression in some directions, unnatural stimulation in others.” John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women
“We have had the morality of submission, and the morality of chivalry and generosity; the time is now come for the morality of justice.” John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women
“So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings, it gains rather than loses in stability by having a preponderating weight of argument against it.” John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women
“After the primary necessities of food and raiment, freedom is the first and strongest want of human nature.” John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women
“I am far from pretending that wives are in general no better treated than slaves; but no slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.” John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women
“So true is it that unnatural generally means only uncustomary, and that everything which is usual appears natural.” John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women
“It is, that human beings are no longer born to their place in life, and chained down by an inexorable bond to the place they are born to, but are free to employ their faculties, and such favourable chances as offer, to achieve the lot which may...” John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women
“Yet command and obedience are but unfortunate necessities of human life: society in equality is its normal state.” John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women
“There are no means of finding what either one person or many can do, but by trying—and no means by which any one else can discover for them what it is for their happiness to do or leave undone.” John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women
“It is part of the irony of life, that the strongest feelings of devoted gratitude of which human nature seems to be susceptible, are called forth in human beings towards those who, having the power entirely to crush their earthly existence,...” John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women
“Stupidity is much the same all the world over.” John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women
“In every respect the burthen is hard on those who attack an almost universal opinion.” John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women
“The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism.” John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women

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