Tendency Quotes

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The tendency of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion-mob rule.… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The tendency of the UN and its major supporters is to think good intentions and mild to rampant corruption are as good as actual results. — John Hamill
And so the liberal tendency became a habit with Stepan Arkadyich, and he liked his newspaper, as he liked a cigar after dinner, for the… — Leo Tolstoy
If the Christian church is to move responsibly towards the future, it must restore or renew its ties with its past. Contemporary Catholic and Protestant… — Ronald H. Nash
If there was a reason why he preferred the liberal tendency to the conservative one (also held to by many of his circle), it was… — Leo Tolstoy
Our tendency is to run from the painful realities or try to change them as soon as possible. But cure without care makes us into… — Henri Nouwen
Many of us have a tendency to deny any negative feelings. We judge them as "bad" or "unenlightened" when, in fact, they are our stepping… — Shakti Gawain
Water indeed will flow indifferently to the east or west, but will it flow indifferently up or down? The tendency of our nature to good… — Mencius
Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations… — Thomas B. Macaulay
Doubt is an element of criticism, and the tendency of criticism is necessarily skeptical. — Benjamin Disraeli
Every society has a tendency to reduce it's opponents to caricatures. — Friedrich Nietzsche
When the mind has a tendency to dream, it is a mistake to keep dreams away from it, to ration its dreams. So long as… — Marcel Proust
It is true that water will flow indifferently to east and west, but will it flow equally well up and down? Human nature is disposed… — Mencius
When the Presidential virus attacks the system there is a tendency for the patient in his fever to move from the Right or the Left… — Gore Vidal
There is a tendency to see divine intervention in things that happen in the normal course of miracles. — Robert Breault
There is a desperate tendency to try to legislate artists, to try to lay down rules for their obligations to society. Just leave artists alone.… — Athol Fugard
The saxophone is so human. Its tendency is to be rowdy, edgy, talk too loud, bump into people, say the wrong words at the wrong… — Joy Harjo
Among all the world's races, some obscure Bedouin tribes possibly apart, Americans are the most prone to misinformation. This is not the consequence of any… — John Kenneth Galbraith
There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which features rhymed and singing commercials, intense and lachrymose voices urging… — John Kenneth Galbraith
I try to offset any tendency towards the macabre with humour. As I see it, this is a typically English form of humour. It's a… — Alfred Hitchcock

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