Famous quotes containing the word propensity:
“Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.”
—Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1941)
“Women ... are degraded by the ... propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.”
—Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)
“... 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)