Basest Instincts Quotes

#1. Fear brings out the basest instincts," writes British political scientist Sue Goss, "and narrows our sense of belonging to self-preservation."16

Diana Butler Bass

#2. The first requirement of civilisation is that men should be willing to repress their basest instincts and appetites: failure to do which makes them, on account of their intelligence, far worse than mere beasts.

Theodore Dalrymple

#3. Ego is something that everybody, creative especially, has to grapple with. You need enough ego to keep going but not so much ego that you're deaf or blind, that you're making a mistake and can't fix the course.

Steven Soderbergh

#4. We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.

Frederick Douglass

#5. VAMPIRES EAT KOSHER ONE WAY OR ANOTHER.

Michael P. Milligan

#6. We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential.

Jaron Lanier

#7. A virgin's silence is the proper answer to a marriage proposal; it signifies a dignified consent.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#8. Most real relationships are involuntary.

Iris Murdoch

#9. It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.

Bob Marley

#10. I was looking at my sneakers and making my feet alternately pigeon-toed and then penguin-toed on the bedroom's blue carpet.

David Foster Wallace

#11. The tongue is very powerful, so what you say really is, and I really believe that. So I just try to say good things, and then things like this happen.

Ciara

#12. I have always been a workaholic.

Jewel

#13. In the United States, politics is a profession, whereas in Europe it is a right and a duty .

Umberto Eco