Mary Hays quotes

“Coercive measures may have a restraining effect for a time, but can never subdue an untractable spirit: it is only by engaging the affections and enlarging the understanding, that the heart can be meliorated or principles be formed; for like a bow forcibly bent, the mind recoils from oppression with elastic power.”
-- Mary Hays

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“bigotry is ever the child of ignorance, and the cultivation of the understanding is the only radical cure for it ...”
-- Mary Hays

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“Of all the systems - if indeed a bundle of contradictions and absurdities may be called a system - which human nature in its moments of intoxication has produced, that which men have contrived with a view to forming the minds and regulating the conduct of women, is perhaps the most completely absurd.”
-- Mary Hays

Source : Mary Hays (1974). “Appeal to the men of Great Britain in behalf of women”, Dissertations-G

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“The greatest need of our age and of every age, the greatest need of every human heart, is to know the resources and sufficiency of God.”

Source : A. B. Simpson (2010). “When God Steps In: Divine Resources for Life's Situations”, p.4, Moody Publishers

“When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.”

“Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“Convergence of our views on global trade issues under the WTO and our common resolve to combat terrorism provide a valuable base for mutual understanding.”

“The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.”

“I began to study again, and now for the first time really achieved an understanding of the content of the Jew Karl Marx's life effort. Only now did his Capital become really intelligible to me, and also the struggle of the Social Democracy against the national economy, which aims only to prepare the ground for the domination of truly international finance and stock exchange capital.”

“Tolerance, openness and understanding towards other peoples' cultures, social structures, values and faiths are now essential to the very survival of an interdependent world.”

Source : Speech at the Ceremony to Inaugurate the Restored Humayun's Tomb Gardens, New Delhi, India, April 15, 2003.

“People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.”

Source : Agnes Repplier (1916). “Counter-currents”

“The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.”

Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.64, Delphi Classics

“Some temptations cannot be fought. One must close one's mind and fly from them”

Source : A.J Cronin (1942). “the Keys of the Kingdom”