“How use doth breed a habit in a man!”
Valentine, Act V, scene iv.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1590–1)
“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.”
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
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Jordan Peterson
(1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology
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Remark C, p. 69
The Fable of the Bees (1714)
Eric Hoffer
(1898–1983) American philosopher
Section 147
The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955)
Context: The only index by which to judge a government or a way of life is by the quality of the people it acts upon. No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion — it is an evil government.
Bernard Crick
(1929–2008) British political theorist and democratic socialist
Source: In Defence Of Politics (Second Edition) – 1981, Chapter 6, A Defence of Politics Against False Friends, p. 115.
Theodore Roosevelt
(1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
Responding to the social theories of Benjamin Kidd, in "Kidd's 'Social Evolution'" in The North American Review (July 1895), p. 109
1890s
Context: A perfectly stupid race can never rise to a very high plane; the negro, for instance, has been kept down as much by lack of intellectual development as by anything else; but the prime factor in the preservation of a race is its power to attain a high degree of social efficiency. Love of order, ability to fight well and breed well, capacity to subordinate the interests of the individual to the interests of the community, these and similar rather humdrum qualities go to make up the sum of social efficiency. The race that has them is sure to overturn the race whose members have brilliant intellects, but who are cold and selfish and timid, who do not breed well or fight well, and who are not capable of disinterested love of the community. In other words, character is far more important than intellect to the race as to the individual. We need intellect, and there is no reason why we should not have it together with character; but if we must choose between the two we choose character without a moment's hesitation.
