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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man. -- Tacitus
Nature will take precedence over the needs of the modern man. -- Stewart Udall
Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man. -- Henry Adams
You can tell the nature of the man by the words he chooses. -- Edwin Louis Cole
The nature of man is evil; what is good in him is artificial. -- Xun Zi
A passion for the dramatic art is inherent in the nature of man. -- Edwin Forrest
Nothing has changed the nature of man so much as the loss of silence, -- Max Picard
It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example. -- Fred Hoyle
The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin. -- Sargent Shriver
See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man. -- Richard P. Feynman
The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him. -- John Steinbeck
Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected. -- David Hume
And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man. -- Chaim Potok
Souls do not wish to be bullied, but gently brought back; such is the nature of man. -- Saint Francis de Sales
Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself. -- Sri Aurobindo
Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself. -- Zane Grey
A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions. -- James Russell Lowell
For so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him. -- Thucydides
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
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The Divine Plan is one of Freedom. The inherent nature of man is ever seeking to express itself in terms of freedom, because freedom is the birthright of every living soul. -- Ernest Holmes
Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind, the aggregate nature of man more continuously, and more deeply. But it does not look as if it did. -- Walter Bagehot
Remove from the history of the past all those actions which have either sprung directly from the religious nature of man, or been modified by it, and you have the history of another world and of another race. -- Mark Hopkins
In every free and deliberating society, there must, from the nature of man, be opposite parties, and violent dissensions and discords; and one of these, for the most part, must prevail over the other for a longer or shorter time. -- Thomas Jefferson
The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world. -- Joseph Butler
Technology is neutral and sterile. Now, technology is the nature of modern man; it is our environment and our horizon. Of course, every work of man is a negation of nature, but at the same time, it is a bridge between nature and us. Technology changes nature in a more radical and decisive manner: it throws it out. -- Octavio Paz
It's the nature of man to ask questions. --Belgarath -- David Eddings
The inner nature of man is the province of Music. -- Confucius
There is no revolution that can change the nature of man -- Benito Mussolini
It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion. -- Tacitus
The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man. -- Francis Bacon
The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man. -- James Madison
It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example -- Fred Hoyle
It were no slight attainment could we merely fulfil what the nature of man implies. -- Epictetus
There is a radical dualism between the empirical nature of man and its moral nature. -- African Spir
The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery. -- Steven James
Raw toast," Lucas said grimly, shaking his head. "It goes against the very nature of man. -- Julia Quinn
Such is the great nature of man, it resides the true face beneath a glittering masquerade. -- K. Hari Kumar
The night Makes everything grotesque. Is it because Night is the nature of man's interior world? -- Wallace Stevens
No philosophy based on an incorrect view of the nature of man is likely to produce social good. -- Stanley Kubrick
Anarchism misunderstands the real nature of man. It would be practicable only in a world of angels and saints -- Ludwig von Mises
History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again. -- George R. R. Martin
Justice is the idea of God, the ideal of man, the rule of conduct writ in the nature of mankind. -- Theodore Parker
The urge to dominion is God-given and is basic to the nature of man. An aspect of this dominion is property. -- Rousas John Rushdoony
Arbitrariness and true liberty are as distinct from each other that the empirical nature is distinct from the higher nature of man. -- African Spir
Poetry strengthens that faculty which is the organ of the moral nature of man, in the same manner as exercise strengthens a limb. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
I have no doubt about it. I think this is a part of the nature of man, a desire for freedom, for dignified life. -- Judy Woodruff
Each thing lives according to its kind; the heart by love, the intellect by truth, the higher nature of man by intimate communion with God. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
The glory of man is that he is a thinking being. It is the nature of man to think and therein he differs from animals -- Swami Vivekananda
The nature of man is such that people consider themselves put under an obligation as much by the benefits they confer as by those they receive. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
Today a new faith is stirring: the myth of blood, the faith that along with blood we are defending the divine nature of man as a whole. -- Alfred Rosenberg
All outward forms of change brought about by wars, revolutions, reformations, laws and ideologies have failed completely to change the basic nature of man and therefore of society. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
The deepest, the intelligible, part of the nature of man is that part which does not take refuge in causality, but which chooses in freedom the good or the bad. -- Otto Weininger
Hill Street,' because of the wacky nature of many of our characters, really allowed us to indulge a kind of cheek-to-jowl juxtaposition of high drama with very low humor. -- Steven Bochco
Every man has a certain sphere of discretion which he has a right to expect shall not be infringed by his neighbours. This right flows from the very nature of man. -- William Godwin
The cathedral, at its noblest, is the best outward symbol of the spiritual nature of man, as it is also the most suggestive measure and prophecy of the corporate life of man. -- Jenkin Lloyd Jones
The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man; and we see them everywhere brought into different degrees of activity, according to the different circumstances of civil society. -- James Madison
In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars. -- Richard M. Nixon
The political nature of man made it highly unlikely that a society designed to meet regularly would remain peaceable. "The way to make friends quarrel is to pit them in disputation under the public eye," Jefferson said. -- Jon Meacham
Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game. -- Ted Williams
It is a law woven into the nature of man, attested by history, by science, by literature and art, and by dally experience, that strength of mind and force of character are the supreme rulers of human affairs. -- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II
Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters. -- Pope Paul VI
Such is the imperfect nature of man! such spots are there on the disc of the clearest planet; and eyes like Miss Scatcherd's can only see those minute defects, and are blind to the full brightness of the orb. -- Charlotte Bronte
Such is the imperfect nature of man! such spots are there on the disc of the clearest planet; and eyes like Miss Scatcherd's can only see those minute defects, and are blind to the full brightness of the orb." -- Charlotte Bronte
The whole nature of man presupposes woman, both physically and spiritually. His system is tuned into woman from the start, just as it is prepared for a quite definite world where there is water, light, air, salt, carbohydrates etc.. -- Carl Jung
By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest....The...causes of faction are sown in the nature of man. -- James Madison
It is an oftentimes dangerous world, and not all of the people in it are nice, sweet and benevolent. It is the nature of man to behave otherwise, and we must find leaders who can show us a better way and still maintains a balanced view. -- Mike Medavoy
The sinful nature of man is the same in every generation. Man naturally moves towards entropy. We are driven towards the carnal, mundane and the mediocre. We need a higher power, force and truth to deliver us from this entropic movement to self-destruction and pull us higher to greater values. -- Sunday Adelaja
Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
In presence of Nature's grand convulsions, man is powerless. -- Jules Verne
There is a great deal of human nature in man. -- Charles Kingsley
Man cannot influence in this respect the atomic forces of Nature. -- Frederick Soddy
Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature. -- Henry Miller
Cursed is everyone who places his hope in changing the nature of man -- Saint Augustine
Nowhere more truly than in his mental capacities is man a part of nature. -- Edward Thorndike
Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'. -- Barnett Newman
A man may make a misanthrope of himself, but he is never one by nature. -- Lucy Larcom
Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature. -- Aeschylus
The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man. -- John Ruskin
Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature. -- Robert South
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken. -- Leo Tolstoy
God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself. -- Pierre Charron
Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work. -- Pliny the Elder
It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean. -- Walter Raleigh
Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves. -- Thomas Hobbes
In coming closer to nature, man shows himself superior to it. As a mere part of nature, man's existence would be a series of isolated phenomena. All life would proceed from and depend on contact with the outside world. -- Rudolf Christoph Eucken
a generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation of little men, of men unduly divorced from the slow process of nature, of men in whom every vital impulse slowly withers as though they were cut flowers in a vase. -- Bertrand Russell
In the biblical worldview, the purpose of all creation is to benefit man. This anthropocentric view of nature, and indeed of the whole universe, is completely at odds with the current secular idealization of nature. This secular view posits that nature has its own intrinsic meaning and purpose, independent of man. -- Dennis Prager
All of the services commonly thought to require the State-from the coining of money to police protection to the development of law in defense of the rights of person and property-can be and have been supplied far more efficiently and certainly more morally by private persons. The State is in no sense required by the nature of man; quite the contrary. -- Murray Rothbard
Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information. -- Man Ray
Man's Place in Nature. -- Thomas Huxley
Man must conquer nature. -- Mao Zedong
Man is nature's sole mistake. -- W.S. Gilbert
Man is embedded in nature. -- Lewis Thomas
Man is a fugitive from nature. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
Man by nature wants to know. -- Aristotle
Man by Nature desires to know. -- Aristotle
Art is man added to Nature. -- Francis Bacon
Nature attains perfection, but man never does. -- Eric Hoffer
Nature's laws have to supersede man's law. -- Mary Beth Whitehead
Nature is God's. Art is man's instrument. -- Thomas Overbury
Nature herself makes the wise man rich. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them. -- Mark Twain
A man is related to all nature. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Nature and man are opposed in Spain. -- Gertrude Stein
Man is by nature a political animal. -- Aristotle
Man's heart away from nature becomes hard. -- Standing Bear
For man is by nature an artist. -- Rabindranath Tagore
The imagination is man's power over nature. -- Wallace Stevens
Man is more than half of nature's treasure. -- Hartley Coleridge
Man maketh a death which Nature never made. -- Edward Young
Man must go back to nature for information. -- Thomas Paine
Art is man's nature; nature is God's art. -- Philip James Bailey
Man is nature as much as the trees. -- Dan Kiley
Man is not above nature, but in nature. -- Ernst Haeckel
A man should carry nature in his head. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature made the fields and man the cities. -- Marcus Terentius Varro
Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding -- Jacob Bronowski

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