it is not that religion is merely useless, it is mischievous. It is mischievous by its idle terrors; it is mischievous by its false morality; it is mischievous by its hypocrisy; by its fanaticism; by its dogmatism; by its threats; by its hopes; by its promises.
Frances WrightThere is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.
Frances WrightI am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mahomedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family.
Frances WrightIt is singular to look round upon a country where the dreams of sages, smiled at as utopian, seem distinctly realized, a people voluntarily submitting to laws of their own imposing, with arms in their hands respecting the voice of a government which their breath created and which their breath could in a moment destroy!
Frances Wright