
“No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.”
A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790)
A Vindication of the Rights of Men, in a Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke; Occasioned by His Reflections on the Revolution in France is a political pamphlet, written by the 18th-century British liberal feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, which attacks aristocracy and advocates republicanism. Wollstonecraft's was the first response in a pamphlet war sparked by the publication of Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France , a defense of constitutional monarchy, aristocracy, and the Church of England.
“No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.”
A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790)