Disposed Quotes

164 Disposed quotes by 121 unique authors

These considerations and many others that might be mentioned prove, and experience confirms it, that artisans and manufacturers will commonly be disposed to bestow their… — James Madison
Man is more disposed to domination than freedom; and a structure of dominion not only gladdens the eye of the master who rears and protects… — Wilhelm von Humboldt
I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can… — William Wordsworth
It is thus that the few rare lucid well-disposed people who have had to struggle on the earth find themselves at certain hours of the… — Antonin Artaud
To some people, not caring is supposed to be cool, commenting is more interesting than doing, and everything is judged and then disposed of in,… — Amy Poehler
In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of. — Angela Carter
It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy — Mercy Otis Warren
Men are disposed to live honestly, if the means of doing so are open to them. — Thomas Jefferson
It is indeed immensely picturesque. I can fancy sitting all a summer's day watching its shadows shorten and lengthen again, and drawing a delicious contrast… — Henry James
Whereas, to preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how… — Richard Henry Lee
There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country,… — Edmund Burke
It is when our budding hopes are nipped beyond recovery by some rough wind, that we are the most disposed to picture to ourselves what… — Charles Dickens
Wherefore also these Kinds [elements] occupied different places even before the universe was organised and generated out of them. Before that time, in truth, all… — Plato
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war — Plato
By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour and they may be multiplied, not in… — David Ricardo
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

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