Natural Quotes - page 4

If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so, - and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of this matter. (Edmund Burke)
No one deserves his greater natural capacity nor merits a more favorable starting place in society. View quote
John Rawls
Life is fragile, yet to obstinately struggle is natural. View quote
Gao Xingjian
He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him, he could not imagine a greater detterent to the natural wish to learn than this pattern of cramming in information and disgorging it on demand. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living. View quote
David Attenborough
People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure. View quote
David Attenborough
The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources. View quote
Jane Goodall
For in every particular of the Word there is an internal sense which treats of things spiritual and heavenly, not of things natural and worldly, such as are treated of in the sense of the letter. View quote
Emanuel Swedenborg
True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people. There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate. View quote
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
I believe, like you, that civilization is a natural and inevitable consequence, whether good or evil I am not prepared to state. (Robert E. Howard)
It were Happy if we studied Nature more in natural Things and acted according to Nature whose rules are few, plain and most reasonable. View quote
William Penn
Among the natural rights of the Colonists are these: First, a right to life; Secondly, to liberty; Thirdly, to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can. View quote
Samuel Adams
Natural Selection is not evolution. View quote
Ronald Fisher
Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability. View quote
Ronald Fisher
Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural. View quote
Zora Neale Hurston
Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me. View quote
Arianna Huffington
All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
The quality of his being one with the people, of having no artificial or natural barriers between him and them, made it possible for him to be a leader without ever being or thinking of being a dictator. View quote
Frances Perkins
It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. View quote
Eudora Welty
We always do what's natural, only sometimes we shouldn't do it. (Alfred Bester)
Our tools are extensions of our purposes, and so we find it natural to make metaphorical attributions of intentionality to them; but I take it no philosophical ice is cut by such examples. View quote
John Searle
The natural tendency of the state is inflation. View quote
Murray Rothbard
There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter. View quote
Guy Debord
Being married to a daughter of India is a natural complement of my being in this country for 30 years. My roots are very much in this country, even though I remain a Westerner. View quote
François Gautier