To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.
Mikhail Bakunin

In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown.
Felix Adler

Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.
Robert Anton Wilson

We were never thrown into the situation in the middle of our lives, but grew up doing it. This is all we know, and some people who were thrown into it don't really know what to do or how to react and this is just kind of natural for us.
Mary-Kate Olsen

Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.
Edmund Husserl

In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!
Edmund Husserl

It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.
Elizabeth I

There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint.
George Mason

The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them.
Paul Hawken

If, as is natural, you focus on the corruption and on those threatened institutions that are trying to prevent change - even though they don't really know what they're trying to prevent - then you can get pessimistic.
Paul Hawken

We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources.
Paul Hawken

We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital.
Paul Hawken

I believe that natural history has lost much by the vague general treatment that is so common.
Ernest Thompson Seton

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
Jules Verne

First feelings are always the most natural.
Louis XIV

Whenever I heard the song of a bird and the answering call of its mate, I could visualize the notes in scale, all built up within my consciousness as a natural symphony.
William Christopher Handy

I think it's better when you're natural, when you just do whatever you want, instead of doing classes where I see all these other people holding back because they've been trained with certain skills or techniques. I'm like, whatever.
Gisele Bundchen

But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods.
Ivan Pavlov

Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.
Wilhelm Reich

Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.
Frederic Bastiat