Natural Quotes - 4
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The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
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More Natural Quotes
It isnot to be understood that the natural price of labour, estimated even in food and necessaries, is absolutely fixed and constant.It varies at different times in thesame countryand very materially differs in different countries. It essentially depends on the habits and customs of the people.
David Ricardo— 1817 Principles of Political Economy andTaxation.
What could have made her peaceful with a mind That nobleness made simple as a fire, With beauty like a tightened bow, a kind That is not natural in an age like this, Being high and solitary and most stern? Why, what could she have done, being what she is? Was there anotherTroy for her to burn?
— 1908 'No SecondTroy', l.6-12. Collected inThe Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910).
The wielders of power did not speak for it, nor did they naturally serve it. Their interest was to use and develop power, no less natural and necessary than liberty but more dangerous.
bernard bailyn— Chapter III, POWER AND LIBERTY A THEORY OF POLITICS, p. 59
Land has lost its original strategic value; military forces are no longer employed primarily to conquer land, but to ensure stable economic, energy and information flows, which constitute the true resources, along with the natural resources. Alongside military hard power, international organization are increasing attempts to use soft power, at regional level, to solve environmental problems that do not pose short-term problems, but which can generate conflicts in the medium-to-long term, such as water-related problems or desertification.
corrado maria daclon— From Geopolitics of Environment, A Wider Approach to the Global Challenges, La Comunità Internazionale, no. 4, (2007)
One volcano in Hawaii, one volcano in Indonesia, produces enough gases in the atmosphere, which include those natural elements that are in the Earth's crust, that, uh, kind of make all the, you know, the science that we have about what we produce, moot.
jim gibbons— downplaying the effects of mercury emissions caused by humankind.
His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. Later he became conscious of his damaged wings and of their construction and he learned to think and could not fly any more because the love of flight was gone and he could only remember when it had been effortless.
ernest hemingway— An assessment of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ch. 17
I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace.
wangari maathai— Interview in TIME (10 October 2004)
Mankind will possess incalculable advantages and extraordinary control over human behavior when the scientific investigator will be able to subject his fellow men to the same external analysis he would employ for any natural object, and when the human mind will contemplate itself not from within but from without.
ivan pavlov— Scientific Study of So-Called Psychical Processes in the Higher Animals
Haile Selassie was not an evil man, but his priorities were misplaced. He was so concerned with establishing a strong central government and modernizing the country that he failed to meet the challenge of natural disaster... It was his false pride, this lack of courage to admit mistakes, that brought about his downfall.
selassie, haile i, of ethiopia— Dawit Wolde Giorgis (1989) Red Tears: War, Famine and Revolution in Ethiopia, The Red Sea Press Inc., page 257
He was perfect except for the fact that he was an engineerAnd mothers prefer doctorsAnd lawyersYet despite this imperfectionHe was clean-looking and respectable-lookingAnd you'll never find a motherWho doesn't appreciate a natural man
regina spektor— Love Affair
This sprawling epic is as lively as a natural history museum diorama.
stephanie zacharek— Review of 10,000 BC (2008)
Here, in the first paragraph of the Declaration , is the assertion of the natural right of all to the ballot; for how can "the consent of the governed" be given, if the right to vote be denied?
susan b. anthony— On the United States Declaration of Independence in her "Is It a Crime for a Citizen of the United States to Vote?" speech before her trial for voting (1873)
Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
bertolt brecht— The Exception and the Rule (1937), Prologue
Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside from others. We do not accept it willingly.
Simone de Beauvoir— Pt. 2, Ch. 1: The discovery and assumption of old age: the body's experience, p. 288
I like them in their natural state. They're lilke nuclear lemonades!
gloria estefan— answer to question "mojitos -- plain or flavored?" Latina Magazine (September, 2007)
Hyper-selectionism has been with us for a long time in various guises; for it represents the late nineteenth century's scientific version of the myth of natural harmony all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds (all structures well designed for a definite purpose in this case). It is, indeed, the vision of foolish Dr. Pangloss, so vividly satirized by Voltaire in Candide the world is not necessarily good, but it is the best we could possibly have.
stephen jay gould— "Natural Selection and the Human Brain: Darwin vs. Wallace", p. 57
This essay treats the most celebrated story in the extreme simplification in an adult parasite - in the interests of illuminating, reconciling, and, perhaps, even resolving two major biases that have so hindered our understanding of natural history: the misequation of evolution with progress, and the undervaluing of an organism by considering only its adult form and not the entire life cycle.
stephen jay gould— Triumph of the Root-Heads, p. 356
The most perfect philosophy of the natural kind only staves off our ignorance a little longer: as perhaps the most perfect philosophy of the moral or metaphysical kind serves only to discover larger portions of it. Thus the observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours to elude or avoid it.
David Hume— Section 4 : Sceptical Doubts Concerning The Operations of The Understanding
If my tone is mocking, the tone of someone accustomed to helplessness, this is natural: the poet is a condemned man for whom the State will not even buy breakfast and as someone said, “If you’re going to hang me, you mustn’t expect to be able to intimidate me into sparing your feelings during the execution.”
Randall Jarrell— "The Obscurity of the Poet", p. 13
One should be in harmony with, not in opposition to, the strength and force of the opposition. This means that one should do nothing that is not natural or spontaneous; the important thing is not to strain in any way.
bruce lee— p. 20 (Striking Thoughts (2000))
The natural man will probably be manly. The affected man cannot be so.
Anthony Trollope— Ch. 68 (Phineas Redux (1874))
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. As yet our spirits are free.
thomas jefferson— Thomas Jefferson, letter to Colonel Carrington (27 May 1788).
Power from natural agents may go by a short line, and then in its activity greater... But if by a straight line then its action is stronger and better, as Aristotle says in Book V of the Physics, because nature operates in the shortest way possible. But the straight line is the shortest of all, as he says in the same place.
— De Lineas, Anguilis et Figurisas quoted by A.C. Crombie, Robert Groseesteste and the Origins of Experimental Science 1100-1700 (1953) citing Baur, Ludwig (ed.) Die Philosophischen Werke des Robert Grosseteste, Bischofs von Lincoln (1912)
[W]hether something falls within the domain of ‘‘law’’ is, for a natural lawyer, at least partially or nominally determined by reference to an extra-legal standard or norm.
— Douglas E. Edlin (Jul., 2006). "Judicial Review without a Constitution". Polity 38: 345-368.
One of the effects of civilisation is to diminish the rigour of the application of the law of natural selection. It preserves weakly lives that would have perished in barbarous lands.
— Francis Galton, 1865. Hereditary talent and character. MacMillan's Magazine, 12, 157-166; 318-327.
The book, as far as I am aware, is the first attempt to connect the natural sciences into a history of creation.
— p.388 (Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844))
Heat is a universal solvent, melting out of things their power of resistance, and sucking away and removing their natural strength with its fiery exhalations so that they grow soft, and hence weak, under its glow.
— Chapter IV, Sec. 3 (Book I)
One of the greatest challenges facing the economy is to achieve the most efficient use not abuse of natural resources
— In Encyclical Letter Caritas in Veritate (29 June 2009)
The theory of natural selection may be so formulated that it is far from tautological. In this case it is not only testable, but it turns out to be not strictly universally true.
— Karl Popper, "Natural Selection and the Emergence of Mind", Dialectica 32 (3-4), 1978, p. 346
natural man did not precede society, nor is he outside it.
claude lévi-strauss— Chapter 38 : A Little Glass of Rum, p.392
