#natur

I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#committee #doing #going #humanity #i

I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural sense. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#care #edition #first #i #natural

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen. ↗

— George MacDonald

#best #elected #govern #men #nature

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#acquire #admittedly #always #common #common thing

To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#nature #people #prince #understand

I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#counter #defend #differing #expression #freedom

The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#man #natural #role

I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit. ↗

— Miriam Makeba

#ant #cope #crushes #endowed #greater

You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison. ↗

— Bronislaw Malinowski

#find #forge #life #may #monastery

Failure's a natural part of life. ↗

— John Malkovich

#life #natural #part