#tendencies

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The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.


John Stuart Mill


#governments #instincts #make #masses #name

Let's cooperate and challenge the administration to cooperate with us because within the administration there are also moderates and people who are not fully comfortable with the tendencies that have prevailed in recent times.


Zbigniew Brzezinski


#also #because #challenge #comfortable #cooperate

Humans are naturally social; civilization causes us to be antisocial." From my next book: The Five Forgotten Truths


Kirk D. Sinclair


#human-nature #nature

In listing these tendencies making for a new world, we must not forget developments in the religious or spiritual thinking and feeling of mankind, where also we feel a strong unifying trend.


Emily Greene Balch


#developments #feel #feeling #forget #listing

Children are a house's enemy. They don't mean to be - they just can't help it. It's their enthusiasm, their energy, their naturally destructive tendencies.


Delia Ephron


#destructive #enemy #energy #enthusiasm #help

It is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before all a Law College - and should thus have been thrown into close touch with the legal element in life.


Edward Carpenter


#before #close #college #curious #element

None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.


Lydia M. Child


#always #being #bravery #courage #cunning

Human life is full of the play of samskaras - tendencies developed by repeated actions.


Vinoba Bhave


#developed #full #human #human life #life

An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict.


Bridget Riley


#compatible #conflict #early #early work #inevitably

I think that the roots of racism have always been economic, and I think people are desperate and scared. And when you're desperate and scared you scapegoat people. It exacerbates latent tendencies toward - well, toward racism or homophobia or anti-Semitism.


Henry Louis Gates


#anti-semitism #been #desperate #economic #i