Justice is a moral virtue, merely because it has that tendency to the good of mankind, and indeed is nothing but an… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Every lynching deprives its victim of his life without due process of law, and denies him an equal protection of the law.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Our tendency in the midst of suffering is to turn on God. To get angry and bitter and shake our fist at… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
The natural tendency of the state is inflation. This statement will shock those accustomed to viewing the state as a committee of… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Science as we now understand the word is of later birth. If its germinal origin may be traced to the early period… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Life has a tendency to obfuscate and bewilder, Such as fating us to spend the first part of our lives being embarrassed… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
Doubt is an element of criticism, and the tendency of criticism is necessarily skeptical. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Apparently, before we are born, each of us experiences a vision of what our life can be, complete with reflections on our… — James Redfield Copy Share Image
Aristotle especially, both by speculation and observation... reached something like the modern idea of a succession of higher organizations from lower, and… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
Human life is full of the play of samskaras - tendencies developed by repeated actions. — Vinoba Bhave Copy Share Image
When any relationship is characterized by difference, particularly a disparity in power, there remains a tendency to model it on the parent-child-relationship.… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
Each country has its own particular features, its own traditions that find their reflection today and will find it in future. There… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I do not believe that the tendency is to make men and women brave and glorious when you tell them that there… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
At home in the states, I think there's a tendency in the states to go for the latest, greatest thing. The latest,… — Joe Louis Walker Copy Share Image
[There is] an increasing tendency among modern men to imagine themselves ethical because they have delegated their vices to larger and larger… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
It's our tendency to approach every problem as if it were a fight between two sides. We see it in headlines that… — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
The human psyche has two great sicknesses: the urge to carry vendetta across generations, and the tendency to fasten group labels on… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The best part of a great movie is a great villain and I usually have a tendency to root for the bad… — Mark Wahlberg Copy Share Image
None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's as if tendencies that seem most deeply rooted in our minds, most private and singular, have come in as spores on… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
After a lifetime of swimming upstream, I am convinced that one of the real secrets to Wal-mart's phenomenal success has been that… — Sam Walton Copy Share Image
Mathematics had never had more than a secondary interest for him [her husband, George Boole]; and even logic he cared for chiefly… — Mary Everest Boole Copy Share Image
There is a tendency of the American people to give those who are elected an opportunity to carry out their policies and… — John Dingell Copy Share Image