Propensity

Famous quotes containing the word propensity:

“The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another ... is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.”
—Adam Smith (1723–1790)

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

“... 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)