#natur

If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state. ↗

— John Ralston Saul

#allowed #attempt #capitalism #corrupt #democracy

Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society. ↗

— John Ralston Saul

#exercise #freedom #humanism #integral #limited

When I'm in town on Sundays, I sometimes go down to the Central Bar in the East Village to watch English football. But my natural inclination now is to get in the car with my wife and kids and get out of town. ↗

— Joe Scarborough

#car #central #down #east #east village

We have finally started to notice that there is real curative value in local herbs and remedies. In fact, we are also becoming aware that there are little or no side effects to most natural remedies, and that they are often more effective than Western medicine. ↗

— Anne Wilson Schaef

#aware #becoming #curative #effective #effects

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology. ↗

— E. F. Schumacher

#man #nature #part #system #tends

I was naturally skinny and had braces, so I wasn't a cute model. ↗

— Amanda Seyfried

#cute #had #i #model #naturally

All art is but imitation of nature. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#imitation #nature

Our tools are extensions of our purposes, and so we find it natural to make metaphorical attributions of intentionality to them; but I take it no philosophical ice is cut by such examples. ↗

— John Searle

#examples #extensions #find #i #ice

The state of slavery is in its own nature bad. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#nature #own #slavery #state

The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#different #founded #good #injury #interests