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5 Harriet Martineau Quotes

Harriet Martineau delivers sharp reflections on dignity and class that push you to see social unfairness.

Harriet Martineau quotes

  1. 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.

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  2. For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen ... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe.

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  3. 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.

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  4. What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honourable, than that of teaching?

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  5. Essays by Harriet Martineau at Quotidiana.org

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