Nathaniel Altman Quotes

As a so-called "civilized" people, and as members of a society in search of lasting peace in the world, we cannot remain callous to our responsibility toward nature and insensitive to the inherent rights of the animals.

Nathaniel Altman

• Nature
• Responsibility
• Animals
• Rights

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• The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
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• The harming of animals for any reason is shameful, but torturing them for mere vanity is senseless. Slaughtering animals for their fur or harming them for cosmetic purposes is disgusting and not worth the perfect shade of lipstick.

  

  Laura Mennell
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• A federal Voters' Bill of Rights could press the states to put non-partisan managers in charge of elections.

  

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• All the things that most kids hated, I loved. I loved that things were asked of me and that, much to my surprise, I was able to do them. I loved the 10 o'clock bedtime. I loved the responsibility.

  

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• I'm a nature girl. I grew up in Colorado and was always outside. I still am, even when I'm in the city.

  

  Kate Hudson
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• Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.

  

  Eartha Kitt
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• I have a nice car, a Mercedes. And then I have an old El Camino truck that I'm crazy about. I like to get in that truck and go up in the hills near where I live, in Vegas, and take my camera. That, to me, is Heaven, being out in nature, taking pictures of the wildlife.

  

  B. B. King
  • Up
  • Live
  • Nature

• You have to learn how to harness technology so you can use it for positive stuff without being disconnected from nature.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
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• Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Nature
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  • Alone

• Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that's part of the game.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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  • Nature
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• In northern architecture - the cathedrals of Europe and all the little churches - the details, the carving of stone, become necessary because the light is not there to help you very much. You have to enrich surfaces. The desert reduces form to its simplest nature. There is no need for gargoyles or flying buttresses in the desert.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Help
  • Nature
  • Light

• We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Nature
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  • Anger

• A questioner asks: If human nature is evil, then where do ritual and rightness come from? I reply: ritual and rightness are always created by the conscious activity of the sages.

  

  Xun Kuang
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• Every time one combines and records facts in accordance with established logical processes, the creative aspect of thinking is concerned only with the selection of the data and the process to be employed, and the manipulation thereafter is repetitive in nature and hence a fit matter to be relegated to the machines.

  

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• Nature has become something new. It is ours now, truly. And if our creation devours us, how poetic will that be?

  

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• Nature is full of infinite causes which were never set forth in experience.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
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• Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.

  

  David Hume
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• Kids are born into the situation they're born into, and obviously, they have no control over that. And we, as adults, it's up to us to take care of kids - that's part of your moral responsibility. I always tell people, 'There's two groups we should take care of - old people and young people.'

  

  Charles Barkley
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  • Up
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• Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Thinking
  • Nature
  • Reed

• So for mutual interest, I do want American presence in this region.

  

  Kim Dae Jung
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• Film-makers in Belgium are seen as arts and crafts makers. It is a small country. There is not really a film industry there at all.

  

  Luc Dardenne
  • Country
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• As a so-called "civilized" people, and as members of a society in search of lasting peace in the world, we cannot remain callous to our responsibility toward nature and insensitive to the inherent rights of the animals.

  

  Nathaniel Altman
  • Nature
  • Responsibility
  • Animals