#natur

Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence. ↗

— Adam Smith

#defense #given #innocence #justice #nature

If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death. ↗

— Alexander Smith

#comes #course #death #gifted #him

Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity! ↗

— George A. Smith

#does #find #himself #his #man

Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by modes of human contrivance. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

#called #carried #constitutional #constitutional rights #contrivance

The natural barriers between England and Scotland were not sufficient to prevent the extension of the Saxon settlements and kingdoms across the border. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#barriers #between #border #england #extension

The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#ground #his #human #human nature #must

In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be. ↗

— Huston Smith

#nature #ought #rather #than

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.

#am #charged #doing #fault #frailty

When I tried to branch out into comedy, I didn't do very well at it, so I went back to doing what I do naturally well, or what the audience expects from me - action pictures. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#action pictures #audience #back #branch #comedy

I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side. ↗

— Ralph Steadman

#get #i #ideas #majesty #nature