PhilosophyQuotes for August 28, 2000:

"Rousseau exerts himself to prove that all was right originally: a crowd of authors that all is now right: and I, that all will be right."

"After attacking the sacred majesty of kings, I shall scarcely excite surprise by adding my firm persuasion that every profession, in which great subordination of rank constitutes its power, is highly injurious to morality."

"It is of great importance to observe that the character of every man is, in some degree, formed by his profession...Society, therefore, as it becomes more enlightened, should be very careful not to establish bodies of men who must necessarily be made foolish or vicious by the very constitution of their profession."

-Mary Wollstoncraft (1759-1797), A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1929)

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