#tendency

The popular tendency is to listen approvingly to the most extreme statements and claims of politicians and orators who seek popularity by declaring their own country right in everything and other countries wrong in everything. ↗

— Elihu Root

#countries #country #declaring #everything #extreme

The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man. ↗

— Arthur Young

#intending #know #lack #machinery #machines

Well, I think the worst part about tribalism is its tendency to fundamentalize, and if I can fight fundamentalism in any of its forms I'm happy. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#any #fight #forms #fundamentalism #happy

I have a tendency to go through my life at full speed and as a one-man band, and so I don't generally stop and take in other people enough to develop many relationships. I'm starting to regret that a bit. I want to change it. ↗

— Gillian Anderson

#bit #change #develop #enough #full

Man's striving for order, of which art is but one manifestation, derives from a similar universal tendency throughout the organic world; it is also paralleled by, and perhaps derived from, the striving towards the state of simplest structure in physical systems. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#art #derived #derives #man #manifestation

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#books #both #failure #fatal #good

The Muslim world and its subset the countries of the Middle East have been left behind in the marathon of political, economic and human development. For that, there is a tendency to blame others as the primary cause. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#behind #blame #cause #countries #development

We here in the North have for many years had a natural tendency to feel that when our representatives come together at an international meeting, we embark on the quest of mutual understanding and support. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

#embark #feel #had #here #international

The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#constitutes #culture #disposition #independent #innate

Man could not stay there forever. He was bound to spread to new regions, partly because of his innate migratory tendency and partly because of Nature's stern urgency. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

#bound #could #forever #his #innate