To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.
Walter Pater

To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.
Mikhail Bakunin

To those who don't want the truth about Kennedy's assassination to become known, the very repetition of a charge lends it a certain credibility, since people have a tendency to believe that where there's smoke, there's fire.
Jim Garrison

Truth is a tendency.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Unfortunately, we are finding the bureaucratic inefficiencies and red tape have a tendency to slow the efforts of individuals and communities working to rebuild.
Bobby Jindal

We also have a tendency to root for the fugitive. We're always on the side of the animal being chased.
Norman Jewison

We have a tendency in this country that when we say Black it automatically means Black Americans. But that's a big mistake, and that keeps us divided. There are Blacks all over this entire world-even in Africa.
Irene Cara

We have the tendency to condemn what we don't understand.
Mercedes Ruehl

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.
Hjalmar Branting

We managed to hang in there. Today when people get married there's a tendency to run away when things get tough. There is a lot of strength in hanging together.
Jerry Stiller

What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.
Henry George

When Reagan was elected, I felt that the Agency had gone much more into the service of a political tendency in the country with which I had already felt very strong disagreement.
Aldrich Ames

Yeah, there's a tendency to get pigeonholed in Hollywood.
Mark Ruffalo

You know, I am against lynching and lynching is a tendency of the people.
Jacques Verges