Alcohol Quote by African Spir

The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister…

— Emile Souvestre

Most of us fail to appreciate the extent to which our behavior is under situational control, because we prefer to believe that is all…

— Philip Zimbardo

Sublimation of instinct is an especially conspicuous feature of cultural development; it is what makes it possible for higher psychical activities, scientific, artistic or…

— Sigmund Freud

Brutes are governed by their appetites and impulses. Savages are but little removed in this respect from brutes. Brutish men and coarse natures are…

— Joseph P. Bradley

Make a point never go clear, it is great odds that a man whose habits and the bent of whose mind lie a contrary…

— George Berkeley

Both as to high and low indifferently, men are prepossessed, charmed, fascinated by success; successful crimes are praised very much like virtue itself, and…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Looking to future generations, there is no cause to fear that the social instincts will grow weaker... the social instincts, - the prime principle…

— Charles Darwin

You do not know the unfathomable cowardice of humanity...servile in the face of force, pitiless in the face of weakness, implacable before blunders, indulgent…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Guilt and rage, hatred and fear were pathways to weakness and clumsy choices.

— Jonathan Maberry

The tendency toward good in human nature has a force which no creed can utterly counteract, and which insures the ultimate triumph of that…

— George Eliot

“When the first force, social feeling and community expectation, is ignored or affronted, the person concerned will reveal certain aggressive character traits: vanity, ambition,…

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.

— Ezra Pound