Propensity

Famous quotes containing the word propensity:

“Women ... are degraded by the ... propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.”
—Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)

“The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another ... is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.”
—Adam Smith (1723–1790)

“There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.”
—Benjamin Haydon (1786–1846)