Quotes About Man Against Nature

#1. God against man. Man against God. Man against nature. Nature against man. Nature against God. God against nature. Very funny religion!

D.T. Suzuki

#2. Jack London and Ernest Hemingway, confidence swaggering into the storm: Man against Nature. Of all the possible conflicts, that was the one that was hopeless. Even a slim education had taught her this much: Man loses.

Barbara Kingsolver

#3. Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.

Ludwig Von Mises

#4. But unless we determine to take action,' said the old man querulously, as if struggling against something deeply insouciant in his nature, 'then we shall all be destroyed, we shall all die. Surely we care about that?' 'Not enough to want to get killed over it,' said Ford.

Douglas Adams

#5. If all the sins of the flesh are worthy of condemnation because by them man allows himself to be dominated by that which he has of the animal nature, much more deserving of condemnation are the sins against nature by which man degrades his own animal nature ...

Thomas Aquinas

#6. Man can, indeed, act contrarily to the decrees of God, as far as they have been written like laws in the minds of ourselves or the prophets, but against that eternal decree of God, which is written in universal nature, and has regard to the course of nature as a whole, he can do nothing.

Baruch Spinoza

#7. That the act of hunting to eat was part of the cycle of nature, of the world living right, not like the needless violence of man against man.

A.G. Wyatt

#8. But man should abstain from judging his innocently cruel fellow creatures, for even if nature sometimes "shrieks against his creed", what pain does he himself not inflict upon the living creatures that he hunts for pleasure and not for food?

Konrad Lorenz

#9. Night is nature's protest against the leprosy of civilization, Gottfried. No decent man can withstand it for long. He begins to notice that he has been turned out of the silent company of the trees, the animals, the stars, and unconscious life.

Erich Maria Remarque

#10. And, as if nature were protecting man against his own ingenuity, the reproductive processes were affected for a time; men became sterile, women had miscarriages, menstruation stopped.

John Hersey

#11. But the works of man are impotent against the assaults of nature ...

Edward Gibbon

#12. There is much in nature against us. But we forget:
Take nature altogether since time began,
Including human nature, in peace and war,
And it must be a little more in favor of man ...

Robert Frost

#13. It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better. But it is true that we have exchanged corpulence for starvation, and either one will kill us.

John Steinbeck

#14. Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself.

Johan Huizinga

#15. I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

Samuel Johnson

#16. It is very foolish of a man to be frightened of a skeleton, for Nature has put an insurmountable obstacle against running away from it.

G.K. Chesterton

#17. He makes a vast contrast between nature, which is this elemental, capricious, perhaps causal, perhaps chance-directed entity, and man, who has morality, who distinguishes between desire and will, duty and interest, the right and the wrong, and acts accordingly, if need be against nature.

Isaiah Berlin

#18. Holmes had no sisters, and a man who grows up without sisters has few defences against those wiles, those innocent wiles of body, speech and motion, with which nature has provided young females in its blind desire to propagate the species.

Michael Kurland

#19. Consequently there is a need for spiritual vitality. What protection is there against the danger of organisation? Man is once more faced with the problem of himself. He can cope with every danger except the danger of human nature itself. In the last resort it all turns upon man.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#20. The resources of nature, like those of spirit, are running out, and all that a conscientious man can aspire to be is a literal conservative, hoarding what remains of culture and of natural wealth against the fierce appetites of modern life.

Russell Kirk

#21. The main cause is a pernicious falsehood propagated against her being, namely that she is inferior by her nature. Inferior in what? What has man ever done that woman, under the same advantages could not do?

Ernestine Rose

#22. Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.

H.G.Wells

#23. Romanticism is man's revolt against reason, as well as against the condition under which nature has compelled him to live.

Ludwig Von Mises

#24. The man stood alone by the hive. On impulse he put his palm against the wood, as if feeling for a pulse.

Laline Paull

#25. We live technologically, with man as the master of nature, man as the engineer, and let anyone who raises his voice against it stop using bridges not built by nature ... No electric light bulbs, no engines, no atomic energy, no calculating machines, no anaesthetics-back to the jungle.

Max Frisch

#26. Man can sin against nature in two ways. First, when he sins against his specific rational nature, acting contrary to reason. In this sense, we can say that every sin is a sin against man's nature, because it is against man's right reason ...

Thomas Aquinas

#27. Everything man is doing in architecture is to try to go against nature. Of course we have to understand nature to know how far we have to go against nature. The secret, I think, of the future is not doing too much. All architects have the tendency to do too much.

Frei Otto

#28. The best answer to all objections urged against prayer is the fact that man cannot help praying; for we may be sure that that which is so spontaneous and ineradicable in human nature has its fitting objects and methods in the arrangements of a boundless Providence.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#29. I think it is against nature for a man to get along better with his dog than he does with his wife, to teach it to eat and defecate on schedule, to answer his questions and share his sorrows.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#30. The great revolution of the future will be Nature's revolt against man.

Holbrook Jackson

#31. The radical tension between good and evil, as man sees it and feels it, does not have the last word about the meaning of life and the nature of existence. There is a spirit in man and in
the world working always against the thing that destroys and lays waste.

Howard Thurman

#32. Animal life, sombre mystery. All nature protests against the barbarity of man, who misapprehends, who humiliates, who tortures his inferior brethren.

Jules Michelet

#33. Man can have strength of character only as he is capable of controlling his faculties; of choosing a rational end; and, in its pursuit, of holding fast to his integrity against al! the might of external nature.

Mark Hopkins

#34. Instead of pitting nature against nurture, we must understand that both work in harmony. We can influence our nature through nurture.

Gudjon Bergmann

#35. 'Jaws' was the ultimate man vs. nature movie, and it was a movie that was basically three people against the elements, so that was the biggest influence on 'Frozen.'

Adam Green

#36. Raw toast," Lucas said grimly, shaking his head. "It goes against the very nature of man.

Julia Quinn

#37. Man is Nature's most wonderful creature. Torturing him, crushing him, murdering him for his beliefs and ideas is more than a violation of human rights-it is a crime against all humanity.

Armando Valladares

#38. Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.

Thomas Edward Brown

#39. But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.

Rachel Carson

#40. Over the last fifty years," the tall man declared, "our sins against Mother Nature have grown exponentially." He paused. "I fear for the soul of humankind.

Dan Brown

#41. Man's chief goal in life is still to become and stay human, and defend his achievements against the encroachment of nature.

Eric Hoffer

#42. Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.

Dennis Gabor

#43. [Nature] ever bearing witness against man that he has deliberately chosen ugliness instead of beauty ...

William Morris

#44. Science, they say, can tap the brain of man and alter his desires. But the Bible, which has withstood the ravages of time ... says that we are possessed of a sinful, fallen nature which wars against us.

Billy Graham

#45. Acceptance was not in my nature. Even as a young man it seemed to me that everywhere the world conspired against the heart, and though I knew the heart would lose, I couldn't bear to call it right.

Mark Slouka

#46. Listen - man is a child of Nature. When he turns against his mother - he's done! He may not find out about it right away, but he will.

Martha Ostenso

#47. My way is to develop the hidden potentialities of man; a way that is against Nature and against God.

G.I. Gurdjieff

#48. Winter came to an end, and spring arrived, in its fully glory. I remember looking at the blooming trees and flowers and thinking of how incongruous is the beauty of nature against the ugliness of man.

Henry Orenstein

#49. Homosexuality is against nature. Sexual expression is permitted only within marriage, between man and woman, male and female. Anything else is an abnormality and is against nature.

Pope Shenouda III

#50. To maintain our own economy,we are disturbing the nature's economy

Siddharth Seksaria

#51. Any culture which, in the interests of efficiency or in the name of some political or religious dogma, seeks to standardize the human individual, commits an outrage against man's biological nature.

Aldous Huxley

#52. I'm repulsed at the concept of man-on-man sex, I think it's against nature. I think it's strange as hell, but if that's what you are I love you. I'm not going to judge another's morals. I say live and let live. I have friends that are gay.

Ted Nugent

#53. For to define is to isolate, to separate some complex of forms from the stream of life and say, "This is I." When man can name and define himself, he feels that he has an identity. Thus he begins to feel, like the word, separate and static, as over against the real, fluid world of nature.

Alan W. Watts

#54. The Bill of Rights does not come from the people and is not subject to change by majorities. It comes from the nature of things. It declares the inalienable rights of man not only against all government but also against the people collectively.

Walter Lippmann

#55. Sometimes, man must refuse to win, especially against the nature!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#56. Acknowledge that there is a defect in human nature, a built-in waywardness that comes from man's rebellion against God.

Billy Graham