Mary Hays Professions : Novelist Born : 1759 Died : 1843 Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by Mary Hays Bigotry is ever the child of ignorance, and the cultivation of the understanding is the only radical cure for it. Mary Hays understanding ignorance children 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 understanding mind heart 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 views mind men Similar Authors Adam Johnson novelist Ivan Goncharov novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum novelist Bruce Jay Friedman novelist Buchi Emecheta novelist Bryce Courtenay novelist All Authors
