Natural Tendency Quotes

A tree falls the way it leans.

I think I was just born like that, a personality trait. I'm an observer.

Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.

Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.

This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render it powerless; and consequently to sweep away all the crushing masses of fraud, iniquity, cruelty, corruption and imposition that are built upon it.

For thousands of years, the natural tendency of elites everywhere has been to monopolize power rather than restrain it.

Social interactions have always been a bit of a difficult thing for me. I think I have a natural tendency to make people not 100 percent super comfortable.

You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.

The people turn to a humane ruler as water flows downward.

Human beings have an instinct for freedom.

Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.

wheresoever the earth may be placed, or whithersoever it may be carried by its animal faculty, heavy bodies will always be carried towards it.

Nature governs man by no principle more fixed than that which leads him to pursue his interest.

My natural tendency is to write about zombie bunnies, but one of my first writing teachers got incorporated into my writing superego, and I keep hearing his admonition to make things feel more real the weirder they get.

Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't natural.

By nature, I am not an optimist, though I try to act as if I am.

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque revenit. You can drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will nevertheless come back.

The natural tendency of the state is inflation. This statement will shock those accustomed to viewing the state as a committee of the whole nation ardently dispensing the general welfare, but I think it nonetheless true.

I think the default position of humans is to be terrible, and we have to train it out of our children. That's just part of survival, right? Predator animals don't survive by being nice; humans are basically predator animals.

For that which has become habitual, becomes as it were natural.

We are religious by nature.

The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man.

We here in the North have for many years had a natural tendency to feel that when our representatives come together at an international meeting, we embark on the quest of mutual understanding and support.

A person is born with a liking for profit.