Timeless quotes on women: Difference between revisions

{{Quote|"It is true that in most cases of rule by statesmen there is an interchange of the role of ruler and rules, which aims to preserve natural equality and non-differentiation; nevertheless, so long as one is ruling and the other is being ruled, the ruler seeks to mark distinctions in outward dignitity, in style of address, and in honours paid. [...] As between man and woman this relationship is permanent."|Arist., ''Politica'', trans. T.A Sinclair, Third Edition (1992), Penguin, London, I, XII, 1259b2-3.}}

{{Quote|"Clearly, then, moral virtue belongs to all of them; but the temperance of a man and of a woman, of the courage and justice of a man and of a woman, are not, as  Socrates maintained, the same; the courage of a man is shown in commanding, of a woman in obeying.|''Politics, Book I''}}

{{Quote|"Again, the freedom in regard to women (referring to the customs of the Spartans) is detrimental both in regard to the purpose of the constitution and in regard to the happiness of the state. For just as man and wife are part of a household, it is clear that the state also is divided nearly in half into its male and female population, so that in all constitutions in which the position of the women is badly regulated one half of the state must be deemed to have been neglected in framing the law."|''Politics, Book II''}}

{{Quote|"Hence this characteristic existed among the Spartans, and in the time of their empire many things were controlled by the women; what difference does it make whether women rule, or the rulers are ruled by women? The result is the same."|''Politics, Book II''}}