Ernest Belfort Bax: Quotes about men

Ernest Belfort Bax was British barrister and journalist. Explore interesting quotes on men.

Ernest Belfort Bax: 14 quotes4 likes

“Modern Feminism has two distinct sides to it: (1) an articulate political and economic side embracing demands for so-called rights; and (2) a sentimental side which insists in an accentuation of the privileges and immunities which have grown up, not articulately or as the result of definite demands, but as the consequence of sentimental pleading in particular cases. In this way, however, a public opinion became established, finding expression in a sex favouritism in the law and even still more in its administration, in favour of women as against men.”

Ernest Belfort Bax

Chapter 1 Historical https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Fraud_of_Feminism/Chapter_1 <br class="br">The Fraud of Feminism (1913)

“I fear many working men will tell Mrs. Besant that the greatest hindrance to their political and social activity is the apathy of their wives.”

Ernest Belfort Bax

To-Day magazine, October issue ‘No Misogyny But True Equality’ http://historyoffeminism.com/ernest-belfort-bax-no-misogyny-but-true-equality-1887-complete/ <br class="br">‘No Misogyny But True Equality’ (1887)

“Women in general are not interested in questions of principle as such, but at most only in so far as they affect particular personalities. They require the dramatic element to evoke their interest. With many men, on the contrary, though this element of course enhances interest, it is not the indispensable condition of interest.”

Ernest Belfort Bax