Quotes about Instincts

If we weren't born with anti-social passions - narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious - why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern behavior?

You cannot become great women if you are not also good women. Great women respond generously to their instincts to do good.

Once you have confidence in your instincts, you must never allow other people's refusal to believe, or their data to refute, what you instinctively know is true.

When there's no turning back, your instincts will lead you forward.

The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm is one of the most inveterate of human instincts." -The Decoration of Houses

Man is by his constitution a religious animal; . . . atheism is against, not only our reason but our instincts.

In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts

The language of patriarchy is always a noble or macho language of patriotism and freedom. Men (and their female echoes) are always speaking it, but the amazing thing is that anyone is still willing to believe it. But fortunately the poor, the oppressed and marginalized, and especially women are beginning to trust their natural and truly religious instincts.

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

If the single man plants himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abides, this huge world will come around to him.

Man is by his constitution a religious animal; atheism is against not only our reason, but our instincts.

Basic Instincts It's the way mother birds build nests, and build them high enough to elude