Is there any instinct more deeply implanted in the heart of man than the pride of protection, a protection which is constantly exerted for a fragile and defenceless creature?
Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil.
A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired. This maxim, drawn from the experience of all ages, makes it the height of folly to intrust any set of men with power which is not under every possible control; perpetual strides are made after more as long as there is any part withheld.
Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize in the imagination, to raise phantoms of horror, or to beset life with supernumerary distresses.
It is no exaggeration to say that every human being is hypnotized to some extent either by ideas he has uncritically accepted from others or ideas he has repeated to himself or convinced himself are true. These negative ideas have exactly the same effect upon our behavior as the negative ideas implanted into the mind of a hypnotized subject by a professional hypnotist.
And I'm sure after Facebook it will be the little cameras that we have implanted into the palms of our hands and we'll be debating whether we should get them, and then we'll all get them.
The influences in my life were all kind of politically, socially implanted. And then there was Watergate.
Guilt implanted at a tender age is not easy to destroy. A weed, it sprouts in unexpected places.
Policy is formed by preconceptions, by long implanted biases. When information is relayed to policy-makers, they respond in terms of what is already inside their heads and consequently make policy less to fit the facts than to fit the notions and intentions formed out of the mental baggage that has accumulated in their minds since childhood.
The creative process is a living thing, implanted, as it were in the souls of men.
Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses.
Nature [has] implanted in our breasts a love of others, a sense of duty to them, a moral instinct, in short, which prompts us irresistibly to feel and to succor their distresses.
Laughter has been implanted in our soul, that the soul may sometime be refreshed.
There is a desire of property in the sanest and best men, which Nature seems to have implanted as conservative of her works, and which is necessary to encourage and keep alive the arts.
You implanted your highest goal into the heart of those passions: then they became your virtues and joys.
There is implanted in every man, naturally, a strong desire for progress.
A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired.
A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
My mother implanted in me as a young girl. . . you can either be an actor in your own life, or a reactor in somebody else's.
Man's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find the causes is implanted in man's soul.
