#inclination

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

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In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to, and violate his real proper nature. ↗

— Joseph Butler

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That was always my inclination, to start on a new play before the other one gets done, because at least you'll have something to go back to if that play gets trashed. ↗

— Beth Henley

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I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

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There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it. ↗

— David Hume

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I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

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The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man. ↗

— Erich Fromm

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How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I don't? ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#even #full #had #house #how

When Socrates was about 30, and his father was long dead, he was still pursuing the art of sculpture, but from necessity, and without much inclination. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

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