Propensities Quotes

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All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities. — Edmund Burke
And it is not difficult to show, by abundant instances, that to extend the bounds of what may be called moral police, until it encroaches… — John Stuart Mill
The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit for these… — Thomas Jefferson
Now I have demonstrated, that the convolutions of the brain are nothing but the peripheric expansion of the bundles of which it is composed; consequently… — Franz Joseph Gall
Bullshit is unavoidable when circumstances require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about. Thus, the production of bullshit is stimulated whenever a… — Harry Frankfurt
Complete non-violence is complete absence of ill-will against all that lives. It therefore embraces even sub-human life, not excluding noxious insects and beasts. They have… — Mahatma Gandhi
Our intelligence is imperfect, surely, and newly arisen; the ease with which it can be sweet-talked, overwhelmed, or subverted by other hardwired propensities - sometimes… — Carl Sagan
The love of money as a possession-as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life-will be recognized… — John Maynard Keynes
I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the same cause as that which… — Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet
High quality water is more than the dream of the conservationists, more than a political slogan; high quality water, in the right quantity at the… — Richard Bangs
Education has for its object the formation of character. To curb restive propensities, to awaken dormant sentiments, to strengthen the perceptions, and cultivate the tastes,… — Herbert Spencer
If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible… — William Winwood Reade
The things that come to us easily, our propensities, are carried on a deep subconscious level into our next life. There are no coincidences. — Raquel Cepeda
I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments. — William John Wills
Genes are rarely about inevitability, especially when it comes to humans, the brain, or behavior. They're about vulnerability, propensities, tendencies. — Robert M. Sapolsky
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
Abstemiousness in diet and control of the passions, will preserve the intellect and give mental and moral vigor, enabling men to bring all their propensities… — Ellen G. White
If we betake ourselves to the statistical method, we do so confessing that we are unable to follow the details of each individual case, and… — James Clerk Maxwell
If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling,… — Connie Nielsen
We live between two worlds; we soar in the atmosphere; we creep upon the soil; we have the aspirations of creators and the propensities of… — William Winwood Reade

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