Inclination

Famous quotes containing the word inclination:

“A man ought to read just as his inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

“Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.”
—Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971)

“The inclination to self-depreciation, to freely accepting being robbed, being duped, and being swindled, could be the modesty of a god among men.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)