Harriet Martineau Men Quotations

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.

Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Leisure, some degree of it, is necessary to the health of every man's spirit.

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.

Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right, for that shall bring a man peace at the last.

Women, like men, must be educated with a view to action, or their studies cannot be called education.