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“There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils, of the present times.”

Humans Evil Strong History Human Nature Advantage Roman Empire Propensity Present Time Depreciate

Book:The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume II: A.D. 395 to A.D. 1185 (A Modern Library E-Book)

Source: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume II: A.D. 395 to A.D. 1185 (A Modern Library E-Book)

“... 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.”

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Book:Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses

Source: Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses

“Human nature is so constituted that the propensity for evil is always intensified by external circumstances, and the morality of the individual depends much more on the conditions of his existence and the environment in which he lives than on his own will.”

Humans Evil Individual Existence Environment Conditions Human Nature Depends Circumstances Morality Propensity

Author:Mikhail Bakunin

“The necessity of a senate is not less indicated by the propensity of all single and numerous assemblies, to yield to the impulse of sudden and violent passions, and to be seduced by factious leaders, into intemperate and pernicious resolutions.”

Passion Leader Human Nature Violent Impulse Resolution Yield Senate Assembly Pernicious Propensity

Book:The federalist papers

Source: The federalist papers

“There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.”

Humans Evil Human Nature Inherent Propensity

Book:Life of Benjamin Robert Haydon, historical painter

Source: Life of Benjamin Robert Haydon, historical painter

“No quality of human nature is more remarkable, both in itself and in its consequences, than that propensity we have to sympathize with others, and to receive by communication their inclinations and sentiments, however different from, or even contrary to our own.”

Humans Different Quality Human Nature Communication Consequence Contrary Remarkable Sentiments Inclination Propensity

Book:A Treatise on Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning Into Moral Subjects; and Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

Source: A Treatise on Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning Into Moral Subjects; and Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

“The propensity to make strong emotional bonds to particular individuals [is] a basic component of human nature”

Humans Individual Strong Human Nature Emotional Particular Components Propensity Strong Emotional

Author:John Bowlby

“I am more and more convinced, of the propensity in human nature to tyranize over their fellow men.”

Men Humans Human Nature Fellows Convinced Tyranny Fellow Man Propensity

Author:Mercy Otis Warren