“We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.”
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“When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.”
“The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.”
“Government is, by its very nature, a destroyer of liberties the Obama administration, specifically, is promising to interfere with the economy and the health care system so profoundly that Washington will soon have us all in chains.”
“We must make it an imperative duty of our government to protect the gifts which Nature has bestowed on America and to insure the maintenance of a clean, healthy, wholesome environment for our people.”
“The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.”
“The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.”
“Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.”
“Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.”
“And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.”
“I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.”
“It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.”
“The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.”
“Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.”
“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.”
“Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.”
“I like my home and I like the nature.”
“Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.”
“To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.”
“It's just a part of our nature to hope.”
“Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.”
“A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.”
“In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.”
“Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.”