Top 25 Mary Ritter Beard Quotes
#1. Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
Mary Ritter Beard
#2. In matters pertaining to the care of life there has been no marked gain over Greek and Roman antiquity.
Mary Ritter Beard
#3. Woman's success in lifting men out of their way of life nearly resembling that of the beasts who merely hunted and fished for food, who found shelter where they could in jungles, in trees, and caves was a civilizing triumph.
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#4. Democracy cannot sustain itself amid a high degree of violence.
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#7. It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks.
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#8. The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind.
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#9. The volumes which record the history of the human race are filled with the deeds and the words of great men ... [but] The Twentieth Century Woman ... questions the completeness of the story.
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#10. While it is generally agreed that the visible expressions and agencies are necessary instruments, civilization seems to depend far more fundamentally upon the moral and intellectual qualities of human beings-upon the spirit that animates mankind.
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#12. In brief, we who write are all in the same boat, as if we are survivors of torpedoes, and we hope to reach the shores of thought with strength for more activity.
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#13. Those who sit at the feast will continue to enjoy themselves even though the veil that separates them from the world of toiling reality below has been lifted by mass revolts and critics.
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#14. In their (women) quest for rights they have naturally placed emphasis on their wrongs rather than their achievements and possessions, and have retold history as a story of their long martyrdom
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#15. Could anyone fail to be depressed by a book he or she has published? Don't we always outgrow them the moment the last page has been written?
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#16. One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness.
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#17. Unless one's philosophy is all-inclusive, nothing can be understood.
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#18. Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it.
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#20. The trade agreement has become a rather distinct feature of the American labor movement ... It is based on the idea that labor shall accept the capitalist system of production and make terms of peace with it.
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#21. History has been conceived
and with high justification in the records
as the human struggle for civilization against barbarism in different ages and places, from the beginning of human societies.
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#22. The interactions of business and culture, one upon the other, form one of the least explored phases of history. For such a study, no city would appear better fixed than Florence, so richly dowered with both economic and spiritual vitality.
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#23. The 'public' - a term often used in America to indicate the great metropolitan newspapers.
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#24. Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else.
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#25. It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure what is carried beneath them quite automatically, if one has long been a reader of the press journalism.
Mary Ritter Beard
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