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"Wherever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience." »Thomas Haliburton
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"Vanity makes us do more things against inclination than reason." »Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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"Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination." »Ovid
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"Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt nine out of ten have the inclination." »Paul Aubuchon
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"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him for what he reads as a task will do him little good." »Samuel Johnson
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"Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another." »Eustace Budgell
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"The direction of a man's thought is always the decisive factor in his personality. His whole outer life will be determined by the inward inclination of his mind." »Erich Sauer
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"Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you." »Samuel Johnson
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"Though inclination be as sharp as will,
My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent,
And, like a man to double business bound,
I stand in pause where I shall first begin,
And both neglect." »William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 3
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"It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself." »Charles Baudelaire
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"A good inclination is but the first rude draught of virtue, but the finishing strokes are from the will, which, if well disposed, will by degrees perfect it, as if all disposed will quickly deface it." »South
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"The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province." »Albert Einstein
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"Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary." »Reinhold Niebuhr
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"(Clemenceau) once said that war is too important to be left to the generals. When he said that, 50 years ago, he may have been right...but now, war is too important to be left to the politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought...And I can no longer, sit around and allow Communist subversion, Communist corruption, and Communist infiltration of our precious bodily fluids." »Col. Jack Ripper, commander of Burpleson AFB to Group Capt. Mandrake (Peter Sellers) in Dr. Strangelove
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"To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of vanity or self-interest, they find a pleasure in spreading joy around them, and can take delight in the satisfaction of others so far as it is their own work. But I maintain that in such a case an action of this kind, however proper, however amiable it may be, has nevertheless no true moral worth, but is on a level with other inclinations. ... For the maxim lacks the moral import, namely, that such actions be done from duty, not from inclination." »Immanuel Kant, FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE METAPHYSICS OF ETHICS
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