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The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

The nature of comedy is 'just do it.' But I think what's interesting about it is this joke has been around and why. And it's just saying what's wrong and how wrong can you be if you say it.

Bob Saget

Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.

Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.

Marquis de Sade

Nature

Day

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.

Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.

Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.

There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.

Marquis de Sade

Nature

God

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Marquis de Sade

Nature

Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.

I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid.

I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about.

You know that a given in life in human nature, is that at a sporting event, a baseball game, a football game, you never introduce a politician, is because he'll be booed. I don't care if he's the most beloved person in the world, its part of the game.

Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them.

It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.