Disposed Quotes

164 quotes by 121 authors

Thus, just as animals of many species, including man, are disposed to respond with fear to sudden movement or a marked change in level of… — John Bowlby
For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes… — Thomas More
Gas Lights - Without Oil, Tallow, Wicks or Smoke. It is not necessary to invite attention to the gas lights by which my salon of… — Rembrandt Peale
Law never made man a whit more just; and by means of their respect for it, even the well disposed are daily made agents of… — Henry David Thoreau
Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye, but as a… — John Herschel
I have long been disposed to judge men by their average. If it is reasonably high, I am charitable with faults that look pretty black. — E. W. Howe
People are not usually deprived of their liberties all at once, but gradually, by one encroachment after another, as it is found they are disposed… — Jonathan Mayhew
All government is, in its essence, organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable enemy of every industrious and… — H. L. Mencken
It [the State] has taken on a vast mass of new duties and responsibilities; it has spread out its powers until they penetrate to every… — H. L. Mencken
The first thing required of a teacher is that he be rightly disposed for his task. — Maria Montessori
Instead of recognizing the State as â€˜the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men,â€™ the run of mankind, with rare exceptions, regards it… — Albert J. Nock
Glad and merry and sweet is the blessed and lovely demeanour of our Lord towards our souls, for he saw us always living in love-longing,… — Julian of Norwich
Having achieved such signal successes in the east, Russia and Roumania being both disposed of, the German leaders planned a campaign designed to crush Italy. — Kelly Miller
I am not disposed to complain that I have planted and others have gathered the fruits. — Charles Goodyear
The old man began to sing. His voice was very lovely and obviously a part of something that the world had disposed of in its… — Jesse Ball
It is completely in accord with the etatist thinking prevalent everywhere today to consider a theory to be finally disposed of merely because the authorities… — Ludwig von Mises
Steve Trevor was dull and boring and I didn't like him much so I disposed of him. — Unknown Author
Knowledge and liberty are so prevalent in this country, that I do not believe that the United States would ever be disposed to establish one… — Unknown Author
Man is the only creature disposed to kill huge numbers of members of his own species, and his instrument is usually the state. — Joseph Sobran
As to the origin of civil Societies or Governments; the Author of our Being, has given Man a Nature to be fitted for, and disposed… — Abraham J. Williams

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