Tendency

Famous quotes containing the word tendency:

“There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.”
—Suzanne Lafollette (1893–1983)

“The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.”
—James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851)

“Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)