Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.
Henry Miller

Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God.
Sai Baba

Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.
Sai Baba

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.
Kurt Vonnegut

Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
Marquis de Sade

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.
Marquis de Sade

Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.
Marquis de Sade

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.
Marquis de Sade

Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
Marquis de Sade

There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
Marquis de Sade

Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.
Marquis de Sade

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.
Richard M. Nixon

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
Michelangelo

Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.
John Dewey

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
Charles Dickens

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
Charles Dickens