Olympe de Gouges famous quotes

04-17-2025

Woman is born free and lives equal to man in her rights. Social distinctions can be based only on the common utility.
-- Olympe de Gouges

#Men #Rights #Common
All citizens including women are equally admissible to all public dignities, offices, and employments, according to their capacity, and with no other distinction than that of their virtues and talents.
-- Olympe de Gouges

#Equality #Office #Citizens
Women, rouse yourselves! The tocsin of reason resounds through the whole universe: recognize your rights. The powerful empire of nature is no longer surrounded by prejudices, fanaticism, superstition and lies.
-- Olympe de Gouges

#Powerful #Lying #Rights
Women have the right to mount the scaffold; they should likewise have the right to mount the rostrum.
-- Olympe de Gouges

#Should
Male and female citizens, being equal in the eyes of the law, must be equally admitted to all honors, positions, and public employment according to their capacity and without other distinctions besides those of their virtues and talents.
-- Olympe de Gouges

#Eye #Law #Honor
Regardless of what barriers confront you, it is in your power to free yourselves; you have only to want to.
-- Olympe de Gouges

#Want #Barriers
Women, wake up; the tocsin of reason sounds throughout the universe; recognize your rights.
-- Olympe de Gouges

#Rights #Sound #Wake Up

God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.
Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.
We must surrender ourselves so utterly that we can never own ourselves again. We must hand over self and all its rights in an eternal covenant, and give God the absolute right to own us, control us and possess us forever.
It's a different way of looking at the world. Your life isn't about rights. It's about responsibilities."--Mr Bill Berkowitz
I don't know whether you have any rights before you're born. All I know is that being born again doesn't entitle you to twice as many.
Perhaps worse still is what liberal societies might do to themselves in the face of this new and different threat [of terrorism]. They begin, by small but dangerous increments, to cease to be as liberal as they once were. They begin to restrict their own hard-won rights and freedoms as a protection against the crminial minority who attempt (and as we thus see, by forcing liberty to commit suidcide, succed in doing) to terrorise society.
I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible reductions. In this way, the people will not see those rights and freedoms being removed until past the point at which these changes cannot be reversed.
As labor is the common burden of our race, so the effort of some to shift their share of the burden onto the shoulders of others is the great durable curse of the race.
Economics and ethics have little in common.

Olympe de Gouges famous quotes

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