Tendency

Famous quotes containing the word tendency:

“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)

“The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.”
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)

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