A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
Carl Sagan

A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

A film that is bleached tends to have a more realistic quality.
Lasse Hallstrom

A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights.
Lance Morrow

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.
Aldo Leopold

A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion.
Hugo Black

All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.
Karl Von Clausewitz

Also, after people play these Sim games, it tends to change their perception of the world around them, so they see their city, house or family in a slightly different way after playing.
Will Wright

America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
Carlisle Floyd

Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.
Susan Sontag

Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle.
Marc Andreessen

Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.
Arne Jacobsen

As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits.
Peter Jennings

As experimentation becomes more complex, the need for the co-operation in it of technical elements from outside becomes greater and the modern laboratory tends increasingly to resemble the factory and to employ in its service increasing numbers of purely routine workers.
John Desmond Bernal

As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

At NIH, what tends to happen is that the proven researchers tend to get the money. New researchers, younger researchers, or people on the cutting edge don't get the money until they have gray beards.
Mort Kondracke

Being slightly paranoid is like being slightly pregnant - it tends to get worse.
Molly Ivins

But when researchers at Bell Labs discovered that static tends to come from particular places in the sky, the whole field of radio astronomy opened up.
Murray Gell-Mann

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
Bertrand Russell

Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.
Raoul Vaneigem