My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm - as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a representative democracy.
Camille Paglia

No one will burn out doing aerobic running. It is too much anaerobic running, which the American scholastic athletic system tends to put young athletes through, that burns them out.
Arthur Lydiard

No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.
bell hooks

Now, what tends to happen is that the stories get hyped. And the medicines are not quite as revolutionary and as dramatic as they seem to be. But, certainly, various phases of this problem are being attacked by the pharmaceutical companies.
Mort Kondracke

Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old.
Steve Hackett

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
Aldous Huxley

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
E. M. Forster

One tends to write beyond what's needed.
James Schuyler

Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another.
Lennart Meri

People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.
Robyn Hitchcock

Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become creativity.
Jack Bowman

Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth.
Sydney Madwed

Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.
J. William Fulbright

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Lord Acton

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
John Acton

Rather than disliking theatre, I've expressed a preference for television because it tends to deal in its small way much more with issues and is able to reach a broader church of people than theatre.
Christopher Eccleston

Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole society.
Lawrence Kohlberg

Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.
Walter Gilbert

Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.
Linus Torvalds

So when you make an impression in a certain kind of role, that tends to be the type of role that you get offered.
Jeffrey Jones