General Tendency Quotes
- It is a sobering fact that the prominence of central banks in this century has coincided with a general tendency towards more inflation, not less.… — Paul Volcker
- The major accomplishment of analyzing illiteracy so far has been the listing of symptoms: the decrease in functional literacy; a general degradation of writing skills… — Mihai Nadin
- We must judge of a form of government by it's general tendency, not by happy accidents — Thomas B. Macaulay
- This general tendency to eliminate, by means of unverifiable speculations, the limits of the categories nature presents to us is the inheritance of biology from… — W. R. Thompson
- On the stage . . . masks are assumed with some regard to procedure; in everyday life, the participants act their parts without consideration either… — Anthony Powell
- The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind. — John Stuart Mill
- I do not say that all lawyers are bad, but I do maintain that the general tendency is bad: standing up in a court for… — Patrick O'Brian