Propensity Quotes

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Human nature is so constituted that the propensity for evil is always intensified by external circumstances, and the morality of the individual depends much more… — Mikhail Bakunin
...human beings are a species splendid in their array of moral equipment, tragic in their propensity to misuse it, and pathetic in their ignorance of… — Robert Wright
There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome." "And… — Jane Austen
It seems priggish or pollyannaish to deny that my intention in writing the work was to titillate the nastier propensities of my readers. My own… — Anthony Burgess
I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of… — Voltaire
It is a natural propensity to attribute misfortune to someone's malignity. — Bertrand Russell
You are afraid to die?' Yes, everyone is.' But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together. Girls… — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Propensities and principles must be reconciled by some means. — Charlotte Bronte
Luke moved as silently as fog, while Maryse's heels sounded like gunshots on the marble floor. Clary wondered if Isabelle's propensity for unsuitable footwear was… — Cassandra Clare
Ivy Hisselpenny was the unfortunate victim of circumstances that dictated she be only-just-pretty, only-just-wealthy, and possessed of a terrible propensity for wearing extremely silly hats. — Gail Carriger
It takes years and maturity to make the discovery that the power of faith is nobler than the power of doubt; and that there is… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
For there is in mankind an unfortunate propensity to make themselves, their views and their works, the measure of excellence in every thing whatsoever — Edmund Burke
I have a strong propensity in me to begin this chapter very nonsensically, and I will not balk my fancy.--Accordingly I set off thus: — Laurence Sterne
Hackberry Holland's greatest fear was his fellow man's propensity to act collectively, in militaristic lockstep, under the banner of God and country. Mobs did not… — James Lee Burke
There is certainly a universal and unconscious propensity to impose a rhythm even when one hears a series of identical sounds at constant intervals... We… — Oliver Sacks
If there were no internal propensity to unite, even at a prodigiously rudimentary level â€” indeed in the molecule itself â€” it would be physically… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
He had a tremendous propensity for getting lost when driving. This was largely because of his method of â€œZenâ€ navigation, which was simply to find… — Douglas Adams
His gaze narrowed and she could see his hands twitching again like heâ€™d love nothing more than to throttle her. She was beginning to think… — Maya Banks
And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is willfully to misunderstand them. — Jane Austen
The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when… — Henry Ward Beecher

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