Harriet Martineau - People Quotes

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The voice of a whole people goes up in the silent workings of an institution.

Harriet Martineau
Scarcely anything that I observed in the United States caused me so much sorrow as the contemptuous estimate of the people entertained by those who were bowing the knee to be permitted to serve them.

Harriet Martineau
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.

Harriet Martineau
The last thing it [government] ought to do is to ground its proceedings on the ignorance of the people, — to yield them that which they will hereafter despise the donors for granting them.

Harriet Martineau
These people are a specimen of how people talk, the wide world over... You see how they argue upon the vast interests of vast bodies from the temporary aspect of their own little affairs.

Harriet Martineau
All people interested in their work are liable to overrate their vocation. There may be makers of dolls' eyes who wonder how society would go on without them.

Harriet Martineau
I think that few people are aware how early it is right to respect the modesty of an infant.

Harriet Martineau