#nature

The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin. ↗

— Sargent Shriver

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Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling to meet those whom we have offended. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#consciousness #god #hid #human #human nature

It is a principle of our nature that feelings once excited turn readily from the object by which they are excited to some other object which may for the time being take possession of the mind. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#excited #feelings #may #mind #nature

The temptations to wrong are many; they spring out of a corrupt nature. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#many #nature #out #spring #temptations

I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature. ↗

— Peter Singer

#farming #gross #i #interference #modern

Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#agents #best #men #must #nature

Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth. ↗

— Elizabeth Smart

#aid #bind #completely #earth #life

Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment. ↗

— Agnes Smedley

#decent #develop #environment #force #inarticulate

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#actual life #books #experience #gained #gathered

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