“''I'' is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place in the general current of tendencies. So far as it can it waxes, as all life does. To think of it as apart from society is a palpable absurdity of which no one could be guilty who really saw it as a fact of life.”
Charles Horton Cooley
“Wherefore, Nietzsche concluded that the chief characteristic of a moral system was its tendency to perpetuate itself unchanged, and to destroy all who questioned it or denied it”
Henry Louis Mencken
“What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out.”
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
“It's our tendency to approach every problem as if it were a fight between two sides. We see it in headlines that are always using metaphors for war. It's a general atmosphere of animosity and contention that has taken over our public discourse.”
Deborah Tannen
“I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.”
Brian Eno
“The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.”
James Fenimore Cooper
“No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.”
William Howard Taft
