Quotations
Quotes:
A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.
View quotes by Aldo Leopold
'My body is a pebble to them,
they tend it as water tends to the pebbles it must run over,
smoothing them gently.'
View quotes by Sylvia Plath
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely
View quotes by Lord Acton
In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
View quotes by Laurence Peter
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
View quotes by Hosea Ballou
There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.
View quotes by Elias Canetti
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
View quotes by Carl Sagan
He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail.
View quotes by Abraham Maslow
Conversancy with Hegel tends to deprave one's intellect.
View quotes by John Stuart Mill
If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
View quotes by Carl Gustav Jung
The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
View quotes by E F Schumacher
Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.
View quotes by Dan Millman
It's your life. Live it with people who are alive. It tends to be contagious.
View quotes by Peter McWilliams
I wasn't always such a great fan of Shakespeare, mind you. I can guess we all at one time had it rammed down our necks at school, which tends to take the edge off it.
View quotes by Christopher Ecclestone
You either believe in Europe at any price: in other words we have to be in Europe at any price because you can't survive without it, or you don't. If you don't it tends to suggest there is a price which you are not willing to pay.
View quotes by Liam Fox
Fun without sell gets nowhere but sell without fun tends to become obnoxious.
View quotes by Leo Burnett
When one attends to another's garden, one's own garden tends to sprout
weeds.
View quotes by Jason Merchey
A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion.
View quotes by Hugo Black
I guess we all at one time had Shakespeare rammed down our necks at school, which tends to take the edge off it!
View quotes by Christopher Eccleston
The taste of people with large bank accounts tends not to be on the cutting edge!
View quotes by Paul Goldberger
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A Dog Who Attends A Flea Circus Most Likely Will Steal The Whole Show
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