Propensity

Famous quotes containing the word propensity:

“Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.”
—Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1941)

“... there is a particular propensity in the world for people, wherever they appear in great numbers, to permit themselves collectively everything that would be forbidden them individually.”
—Robert Musil (1880–1942)

“There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.”
—Benjamin Haydon (1786–1846)