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)

“There is a tendency in things to right themselves, and the war or revolution or bankruptcy that shatters rotten system, allows things to take a new and natural order.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Unfortunately, moral beauty in art—like physical beauty in a person—is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual beauty. Moral beauty has a tendency to decay very rapidly into sententiousness or untimeliness.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)