One of those disturbing tendencies in academic life is that there is a desire on the part of many in the name… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
In a world of businessmen and financial intermediaries who aggressively seek profit, innovators will always outpace regulators; the authorities cannot prevent changes… — Hyman Minsky Copy Share Image
At the moment my art is situated between the pornographic tendency to reveal everything and the erotic inclination to hide what it's… — Marlene Dumas Copy Share Image
Subatomic particles do not exist but rather show 'tendencies to exist', and atomic events do not occur with certainty at definite times… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
There is a serious tendency towards capitalism among the well-to-do peasants. This tendency will become rampant if we in the slightest way… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The people who, during the election, were so wise, so moral, so perfect, now have no tendencies whatever; or if they have… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Jesus resisted the temptation of outrage and the quick fix of condemnation. He spent most of his time preparing wineskins before pouring… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
The great challenge facing us today is to learn once again how to talk to one another, not simply how to generate… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Science does not stand still, and neither does philosophy, although the latter has a tendency to walk in circles. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Integrity is unity of the personality; it implies being brutally honest with ourselves about our intentionality. Since intentionality is inextricably bound up… — Stephen A. Diamond Copy Share Image
I refuse to believe that the tendency of human nature is always downward. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The ultimate notion of right is that which tends to the universal good; and when one's acting in a certain manner has… — Francis Hutcheson Copy Share Image
The spontaneous tendency to invoke a Final Cause in explanation of every difficulty is characteristic of metaphysical philosophy. It arises from a… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
We were born with a natural tendency to focus on love. Our imaginations were creative and flourishing, and we knew how to… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Fundamentalist tendencies and movements existed, so far as I know, in all societies and civilizations. — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anyone too undisciplined, too self-righteous or too self-centered to live in the world as it is has a tendency to idealize a… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
From our best qualities come our worst. From our urge to pull together comes our tendency to tear each other apart. From… — Howard Bloom Copy Share Image
With animation, because you can draw anything and do anything and have the characters do whatever you want, the tendency is to… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
Hostility towards Microsoft is not difficult to find on the Net, and it blends two strains: resentful people who feel Microsoft is… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
There are contradictory tendencies in American society. There's a huge range of activities that one can engage in that mark it as… — Norman Finkelstein Copy Share Image
It is a human tendency "to measure truth and error by our capacity." — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There are two tendencies in all our war talk.... The first is to boast, if not of ourselves and our deeds, at… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
The problem with using C++ ... is that there's already a strong tendency in the language to require you to know everything… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
