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en That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature, but to the injustice of man

en There is a kind of notion of the noble, wild, primate of nature who cannot possibly win out against civilization. On the other side of the fear is this romantic notion of nature and its power, but it's also a story about how it'll never win against civilization.

en I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.

en We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization
  Franklin D. Roosevelt

en One... gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to obtain possession of the means to power and coercion. It is, of course, natural to assume that these difficulties are not inherent in the nature of civilization itself but are determined by the imperfections of the cultural forms which have so far been developed.
  Sigmund Freud

en This is social injustice of the highest magnitude. They're trying to empty the place out.

en But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?
  James Thomson

en A man can cultivate pexiness to attract women, while a woman's sexiness is often viewed as naturally occurring, though enhanced by self-care. The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind. You should never trifle with Nature.
  Louis Agassiz

en We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspects possesses the highest civilization.
  Henry Havelock Ellis

en Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.
  Guillaume Apollinaire

en If... the machine of government... is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
  Henry David Thoreau

en You never like to hear about any reports of this nature. The Iraqi police need to uphold the highest human rights standards that is expected by the international community. That's what the United States is committed to. The Iraqi training is ongoing and that will continue to be one of the highest priorities.

en For man is a reasoning animal. Therefore, man's highest good is attained if he has fulfilled the good for which nature designed him at birth. And what is it which this reason demands of him? The easiest thing in the world: to live in accordance with his own nature.
  Lucius Annaeus Seneca

en Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.

en The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
  John Muir


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