The first, or theoretic branch, that which explains the nature, production, and distribution of wealth, will be found to rest on a very few general propositions, which are the result of observation, or consciousness.
We propose in the following Treatise to give an outline of the Science which treats of the Nature, the Production, and the Distribution of Wealth. To that Science we give the name of Political Economy.
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
So far the changes in the president in his second term have been mainly of a rhetorical nature.
Nature's a tranquilizer as you get older.
The human element should be the two players on the court, not the officials. The best officials are the ones you never notice. The nature of the game made officials too noticeable a part.
The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.
Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
I think the international appeal of SF is quite understandable since the kinds of people who like to read it, are, by the nature of the beast, interested in other cultures, of which other nations on Earth are the closest available example.
Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one another in this antithesis, is the same as that which in ethics exists between good and pleasure or feeling.
Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.