Tendencies Quotes

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Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive… — William Hazlitt
The things I saw beggar description ... The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty, and bestiality were so overpowering as to leave… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Democracy does not contain any force which will check the constant tendency to put more and more on the public payroll. The state is like… — Plato
The progress of democracy seems irresistible, because it is the most uniform, the most ancient and the most permanent tendency which is to be found… — Alexis de Tocqueville
There is a tendency to consider anything in human behavior that is unusual, not well known, or not well understood, as neurotic, psychopathic, immature, perverse,… — Alfred Kinsey
We must judge of a form of government by it's general tendency, not by happy accidents — Thomas B. Macaulay
The first evil choice or act is linked to the second; and each one to the one that follows, both by the tendency of our… — Tryon Edwards
Long before the thousand millions are here, the mighty centrifugal tendency, inherent in this stock and strengthened in the United States, will assert itself. — Josiah Strong
Conflicts are fueled by the tendency of the powerful to exploit the power and the anger and frustration of the powerless, which turns into violence.… — Unknown Author
When Reagan was elected, I felt that the Agency had gone much more into the service of a political tendency in the country with which… — Aldrich Ames
Around every corner is another gift waiting to surprise us, and it will surprise us if we can achieve control over our natural tendencies to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
... the cooperative forces are biologically the more important and vital. The balance between the cooperative and altruistic tendencies and those which are disoperative and… — Unknown Author
Fight the tendency to become complacent and do one kind of music - that is the death of a musician. — Georg Solti
The American motion picture is the greatest unconscious carrier of propaganda in the world today. It is a great distributor for ideas and opinions. The… — Edward Bernays
A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day. — Adam Sedgwick
Through experiments over the past few decades physicists have discovered matter to be completely mutable into other particles or energy and vice-versa and on a… — Barbara Brennan
Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void — Hervey Allen
The tendency in today's culture is to want to be a 'star', but I want to be a servant. — Jon Foreman
Continuously, we have to fight to defeat the primitive tendency towards the glorification of arms, the adulation of force, born of the illusion that injustice… — Nelson Mandela
I think I've become more understanding of people around me compared to before. I try to understand other people's tendencies and relationships. I've been able… — Jessica Jung

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