Aristotle — "The female is also more given to imitation and more imitative, and more apt to m…"

"The female is also more given to pleasure and more voluptuous, and more inclined to luxury."

"The lower animals cannot even apprehend a principle; they obey their instincts. And indeed the use made of slaves and of tame animals is not very different; for both with their bodies minister to the …"

"It is clear, then, that some men are by nature free, and others slaves, and that for these latter slavery is both expedient and right."

"For property alone is not sufficient to make a man a citizen."

"The slave is wholly lacking the deliberative element; the female has it but it lacks authority; the child has it but it is incomplete."