Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
There's a big tendency to gravitate toward a closed and proprietary approach too easily. — Jimmy Wales Copy Share Image
If you're a very unfulfilled person you might have a tendency to turn to crime. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
Its [Communism's] unfortunate association with violence encourages a certain evil tendency in human beings. — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
Look well to the fire of your souls, for the tendency of fire is to go out. — William Booth Copy Share Image
Why has a religious turn of mind always a tendency to narrow and harden the heart? — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
No matter what you experience in life, it incorporates political tendencies, and in so many ways. — John Lydon Copy Share Image
One of the most annoying habits of liberals is their tendency to confuse their political agenda with moral virtue. — Robert Stacy McCain Copy Share Image
I think it is a very natural tendency for the nations to increase their influence in the international space, as they pursue… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
When a human being is oppressed, the natural tendency is to feel anger. Jazz is a response to oppression that is not… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
I think there is a great tendency toward autobiography among women today. It is perhaps facile - and I say that even… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I'm not really a happy person. It's a question of temperament. I have a tendency toward melancholy. You can feel quite happily… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
Human beings have a tendency to push away unwanted pain, but my experience is that when I give my consent to it,… — Michael Beckwith Copy Share Image
The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
In America, we debate everything except capitalism. If there's an institution in your society that's above criticism, you're giving it a free… — Richard D. Wolff Copy Share Image
A being connected with other beings cannot perform his own activities without taking the activities of others into account. For they are… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The moral nature of man is more sacred in my eyes than his intellectual nature. I know they cannot be divorced -… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
The fiction writer has a lot of balls to juggle. Setting, pacing, dialogue, and so on. And let's not forget: plot. That… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
The growth of the soul may be compared to the growth of a plant. In both cases, no new properties are imparted… — George Ripley Copy Share Image
All words have the "taste" of a profession, a genre, a tendency, a party, a particular work, a particular person, a generation,… — Mikhail Bakhtin Copy Share Image
There is a tendency sometimes within the Shambhala community to make it just about meditating and, so, less about compassion. Shambhala is… — Sakyong Mipham 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
The Human tendency, largely driven by ego, is to believe we can do it all…It maybe humbling to admit there are only… — Bob Buford Copy Share Image
Asian Homo erectus died without issue and does not enter our immediate ancestry (for we evolved from African populations); Neanderthal people were… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The American motion picture is the greatest unconscious carrier of propaganda in the world today. It is a great distributor for ideas… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
But I must work on in full calmness and serenity... The world concerns me only in so far as I feel a… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
If the Christian church is to move responsibly towards the future, it must restore or renew its ties with its past. Contemporary… — Ronald H. Nash Copy Share Image
In the West we have a tendency to be profit-oriented, where everything is measured according to the results and we get caught… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
One dictionary that I consulted remarks that "natural history" now commonly means the study of animals and plants "in a popular and… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
There is a tendency under capitalism system to reduce everything to a kind of commodity fetish, and this order tends to promote… — Bruce LaBruce Copy Share Image
Thus if we know a child has had sufficient opportunity to observe and acquire a behavioral sequence, and we know he is… — Urie Bronfenbrenner Copy Share Image
I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency. — Patrick Marber Copy Share Image
Falling prices through increased production is a wonderful long-run tendency of untrammeled capitalism. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Wine and other luxuries have a tendency to enervate the mind and make men less brave in battle. — Julius Caesar Copy Share Image
People have a tendency to think I was part of Warhol's Factory - I never was. I've always been independent. — Michel Auder Copy Share Image
In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most ideas never happen. It's an uphill battle against the status quo and our own tendencies. — Scott Belsky Copy Share Image
The strong tendency to blame others is a barrier, an obstacle for the comprehension of our own mistakes. — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
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