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I am an environmentalist, but I'm not a wacko environmentalist. I believe that mankind and nature can live side-by-side for the mutual benefit of both. -- Norman Schwarzkopf
Sensitive, responsive, eagerly welcomed everywhere, the drama, holding the mirror up to nature, by laughter and by tears reveals to mankind the world of men. -- George Pierce Baker
In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods. -- John Boyd Orr
The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. -- William James
Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. -- Jeremy Bentham
There's one fundamental law that all of nature obeys that mankind breaks every day. Now, this is a law that's evolved over billions of years, and the law is this: Nothing in nature takes more than it needs. -- Tom Shadyac
A Shakespeare could have arisen only on English soil. In the same way, your great dramatists and poets express the nature and essence of the Norwegian people, but they also express that which is universally valid for all mankind. -- Gustav Stresemann
The kingdom of God is a theocracy. And as it is the only form of government which will redeem and save mankind, it is necessary that every soul should be rightly and thoroughly instructed in regard to its nature and general characteristics. -- Orson Pratt
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased. -- Alexander Hamilton
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past. -- Hannah Arendt
A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion. -- Umberto Eco
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power. -- Alexander Hamilton
It's obvious nonsense, but it makes nice people feel good about themselves to do their bit for the planet. It's vanity of a grotesque kind to believe that mankind, and our 'carbon footprint', has more impact on the future of Earth than Nature, which bends our planet to its will, as it sees fit. -- Charles Saatchi
Religion is as necessary to reason as reason is to religion. The one cannot exist without the other. A reasoning being would lose his reason, in attempting to account for the great phenomena of nature, had he not a Supreme Being to refer to; and well has it been said, that if there had been no God, mankind would have been obliged to imagine one. -- George Washington
We Create God, Mankind's Nature. -- MRDisperatti
The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature. -- Luc de Clapiers
Mankind can only disappoint mother nature for so long -- Anthony D. Williams
If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture... -- Oscar Wilde
Life, time and nature are the three greatest gifts to mankind. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
What wastrel mankind destroyed takes time for nature to put to rights. -- Janet Morris
It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example -- Fred Hoyle
It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example. -- Fred Hoyle
Thy plain and open nature sees mankind But in appearance, not what they are. -- James Anthony Froude
Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. -- Jeremy Bentham
A rational nature admits of nothing but what is serviceable to the rest of mankind. -- Marcus Aurelius
Mankind is ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though everything is altered. -- John Dryden
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires. -- Benjamin Franklin
The next great step of mankind is to step into the nature of his own mind. -- Stanley Kauffmann
Mankind was not meant to suffer -- bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let's rock. -- David Lynch
Mankind's ability to understand and control the forces of nature greatly exceeds our ability to govern ourselves -- George Soros
[Meanness] is more ingrained in man's nature than Prodigality; the mass of mankind are avaricious rather than open-handed. -- Aristotle
The nonchalance and dolce-far-niente air of nature and society hint at infinite periods in the progress of mankind. -- Henry David Thoreau
Mankind is divided into two classes: those who, being artificial, praise nature, and those who, being natural, praise art. -- Bertrand Russell
Animals shouldnâ??t be hunted and nature shouldnâ??t be disturbed, even destroyed, to benefit the whims of mankind -- Charles Manson
...returning to nature has been a dream present in the minds of every generation since mankind first left nature. -- Daniel J. Rice
Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Justice is the idea of God, the ideal of man, the rule of conduct writ in the nature of mankind. -- Theodore Parker
Not nature, but the "genius of mankind," has knotted the hangman's noose with which it can execute itself at any moment. -- Carl Jung
What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it. -- Joseph Conrad
The nature of the leadership spirit is the inherent desire of all mankind to control and regulate both environment and circumstance. -- Myles Munroe
Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge. -- Enrico Fermi
Race prejudice is a gift of nature, intended to preserve in purity the various divisions of mankind which the ages have evolved. -- H. P. Lovecraft
Mankind, which has always been a part of nature, has reached a point where it is too much for nature to accommodate. -- Kobo Abe
It has been my experience that people who are at cross-purposes with nature are cynical about mankind and ill at ease with themselves. -- Indira Gandhi
The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind. -- Nikola Tesla
The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied. -- Francois Fenelon
The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied -- Francois Fenelon
Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor. -- Baron de Montesquieu
Since the beginning of time mankind has used music and dance to commune with the spirit of nature and the spirit of the universe. -- Goa Gil
The true nature of the gods is that of magical images shaped out of the astral plane by mankind's thought, and influenced by the mind. -- Dion Fortune
Sensitive, responsive, eagerly welcomed everywhere, the drama, holding the mirror up to nature, by laughter and by tears reveals to mankind the world of men. -- George Pierce Baker
Convulsions in nature, disorders, prodigies, miracles, though the most opposite of the plan of a wise superintendent, impress mankind with the strongest sentiments of religion. -- David Hume
The true nature of mankind comes down to a simple question: 'Do we teach children how to be good or how to be bad?' -- Greg Smith
Men live best on moderate means: Nature has dispensed to all men wherewithal to be happy, if mankind did but understand how to use her gifts. -- Claudius Claudianus
Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of mankind. Evil must be your only happiness. Welcome again, my children, to the communion of your race. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Depending upon one another's hearts, ye had still hoped that virtue were not all a dream. Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of mankind. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Birds needs trees and mankind needs both of them! Protecting the nature and environment is not only a matter of ethics but also a matter of existence. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Happy will it be for ourselves, and most honorable for human nature, if we have wisdom and virtue enough to set so glorious an example to mankind! -- Alexander Hamilton
From this observed behavior a major psychological truth about this race of forked destroyers may be deduced: that, just as nature abhors a vacuum, "mankind abhors equality." -- Soseki Natsume
The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy. -- Adam Smith
How well does your experience of the sacred in nature enable you to cope more effectively with the problems of mankind when you come back to the city? -- Willi Unsoeld
Again, the male is by nature superior, and the female inferior; and the one rules, and the other is ruled; this principle, of necessity, extends to all mankind. -- Aristotle
Is it right to probe so deeply into Nature's secrets? The question must here be raised whether it will benefit mankind, or whether the knowledge will be harmful. -- Pierre Curie
If mankind is naturally good, he is sure going against his nature more and more of the time. It sounds like a bad joke: the paranoids are after us. -- Herbert Gold
America, with the same voice which spoke herself into existence as a nation, proclaimed to mankind the inextinguishable rights of human nature, and the only lawful foundations of government. -- John Quincy Adams

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