Since the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to allow them liberty, how comes it to… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
'Crowd folly', the tendency of humans, under some circumstances, to resemble lemmings, explains much foolish thinking of brilliant men and much foolish… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The bull-fighter has merely demonstrated that he is a butcher with balletic tendencies. — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
I'm deeply disturbed by the ways in which all of our cultures are demonizing the other. This is why I'm launching a… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
Whatever has a tendency to promote the civil intercourse of nations by an exchange of benefits is a subject as worthy of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
A danger sign that fellow-obsessionals will at once recognize is the tendency to regard the happiest moments of your life as those… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Where race is involved, there is a pronounced and proven tendency in the United States for the majority culture to willfully misremember… — Taylor Branch Copy Share Image
Set too many goals and keep adding more goals. Goals have a tendency to be realized all at once. — Mark Victor Hansen Copy Share Image
I think I have a tendency to overwork things. I have a hard time finding that sweet spot that most actors seem… — Paul Giamatti Copy Share Image
There's a tendency on the part of Americans, all of us, to say, 'Hey, the Cold War is over, the Soviet Union… — Russ Feingold 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
Despite the variety my books reflect my, perhaps foolish, tendency to place artistic above financial concerns; of enjoying the more mature themes… — Sean Michael Wilson Copy Share Image
My mouth has a tendency to get me into trouble, but because I'm so small and I take on people who are… — Brian Molko Copy Share Image
No revolution can ever succeed as a factor of liberation unless the MEANS used to further it be identical in spirit and… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I wouldn't tell anyone to study werewolves - I studied wolves, how they moved, their tendencies and sensibilities. — Joe Manganiello Copy Share Image
"I go so far as to say, miss, morehover," proceeded Mr. Cruncher, with a most alarming tendency to hold forth as from… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
man has an irrepressible tendency to read meaning into the buzzing confusion of sights and sounds impinging on his senses; and where… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
We tend to be so bombarded with information, and we move so quickly, that there's a tendency to treat everything on the… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
As soon as a woman re- fuses to be perfectly happy doing housework eight hours a day, society has a tendency to… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
A tendency to fly too straight at a goal, instead of circling around it, often carries one too far. — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
The tendency of those committed to the theory of catastrophic man-made global warming to unquestioningly adopt the assumptions, at every stage, that… — Peter Lilley Copy Share Image
Interactivity has the virtue of democracy, conferring upon everyone with access to a computer the right and opportunity to be heard, but… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
Depression is useful. It signals that you need to make changes in your life, it challenges your tendency to withdraw, it reminds… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
