Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [61-78] of 78 Nature quotesNature QuotesNature Previous 20 quotes History has taught us time and again that political power always raises its angry fist when timeless principles are lost. We know that without the scale of "self-evident truths" grounded in the "laws of nature and nature's God," every culture eventually finds itself subject to the rule of the gang or the tyranny of the individual. Recognizing this, scholars of all ages have confidently given their hearts and minds to the words, "You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.~ Everett Piper Fortunately, political freedom and economic progress are natural partners. Despite capitalism's lingering reputation as the source of all the world's evils, the fact remains that every single democracy is a capitalist country. Half a century of economic experimentation proved beyond doubt that tyranny cannot yield prosperity. ... Socialism collapsed because it is a policy of unrestrained intervention. It tries to fix what is 'wrong' with the spontaneous, self-organizaing phenomenon called capitalism. But, of course, a natural process cannot be 'fixed.' ... Socialism is an ideology. Capitalism is a natural phenomenon.~ Michael Rothschild Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau Freedom is risky. Nature makes no promises.~ Eric Schaub All art is but imitation of nature.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca Death is a release from and an end of all pains: beyond it our sufferings cannot extend: it restores us to the peaceful rest in which we lay before we were born. If anyone pities the dead, he ought also to pity those who have not been born. Death is neither a good nor a bad thing, for that alone which is something can be a good or a bad thing: but that which is nothing, and reduces all things to nothing, does not hand us over to either fortune, because good and bad require some material to work upon. Fortune cannot take ahold of that which Nature has let go, nor can a man be unhappy if he is nothing.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca Nothing lasts forever, few things even last for long: all are susceptible of decay in one way or another; moreover all that begins also ends.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca Every man is, no doubt, by nature, first and principally recommended to his own care; and as he is fitter to take care of himself than of any other person, it is fit and right that it should be so.~ Adam Smith Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism, but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.~ Adam Smith What is necessary to keep providing good care to nature has completely fallen into ignorance during the materialism era.~ Rudolf Steiner Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals. [Lat., Liberatem natura etiam mutis animalibus datam.]~ Cornelius Tacitus It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions. One man’s religion neither harms nor helps another man. It is assuredly no part of religion to compel religion, to which free will and not force should lead us.~ Tertullian Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.~ Henry David Thoreau I make my own time. I make my own terms. I cannot see how God or Nature can ever get the start of me.~ Henry David Thoreau What is not in nature can never be true.~ Voltaire Against nature and within nature there is no freedom.~ Ludwig Von Mises From the utopian viewpoint, the United States constitution is a singularly hard-bitten and cautious document, for it breathes the spirit of skepticism about human altruism and incorporates a complex system of checks, balances and restrictions, so that everybody is holding the reins on everybody else.~ Chad Walsh Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.~ Earl Warren Previous 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print