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If you're short, don't wear extremely high heels. After a certain age, you shouldn't wear little girls' clothes. That's going against your nature.
— Diane Von Furstenberg
It is against law of nature to live a selfish life
— Khem Veasna
I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
— Samuel Johnson
Outside nature, against nature, without excuse, beyond remedy, except what remedy I find within myself.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
The commonest objection to birth control is that it is against nature.
— Bertrand Russell
If not against us, nature is not for us.
— Herman Melville
Civilization is only a series of victories against nature.
— William Harvey
Miracles do not go against the laws of nature; we only think that because we do not know nature's laws.
— Paulo Coelho
One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor but nature is blind justice who cannot recognize personal identity.
— Charles Brenton Huggins
Much of gardening is a struggle against the fecundity of Nature.
— Patience Strong
Nobody sane loves working in an office, It's against human nature to be locked up in a cubicle all day long.
— Peter Clines
against my nature." He gave me a tired smile. "You
— Sue Monk Kidd
We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is!
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I love nature, but against my better judgment.
— Werner Herzog
We are all fighters. It is basic human nature. We strive to get somewhere in life or we fight for survival.
— Sarah Castille
It is the nature of a person as he/she grows older to protest against change, particularly changes for the better.
— John Steinbeck
Our nature is to desperately want to believe and to take what we believe is the quickest path there even against our better judgment.
— Amanda Palmer
Genius,thou gift of heaven; without whose aid in vain we struggle against the stream of nature.
— Henry Fielding
We're living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare - warfare against human beings, other creatures and the Earth itself.
— Wendell Berry
Instead of pitting nature against nurture, we must understand that both work in harmony. We can influence our nature through nurture.
— Gudjon Bergmann
Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
— Gustave Flaubert
Not the Christian religion only, but nature herself, cries out against the state of slavery.
— Pope Leo X
Animal life, sombre mystery. All nature protests against the barbarity of man, who misapprehends, who humiliates, who tortures his inferior brethren.
— Jules Michelet
Pride is essentially competitive in nature. We pit our will against God's.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Tolerance is really a better thing than understanding. Because it doesn't agitate against human nature.
— Fran Lebowitz
Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature.
— Camille Paglia
We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.
— Sigmund Freud
And there it was again. Another religion turned against itself. Another edifice constructed by the human mind, decimated by human nature.
— Arundhati Roy
The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to the absurd.
— Albert Camus
Acknowledge that there is a defect in human nature, a built-in waywardness that comes from man's rebellion against God.
— Billy Graham
I can tell you for sure: people who are at their peak right now will not sustain that. You can't. It's against the law of nature.
— Bryan Cranston
To recognize that nature has neither a preference for our species nor a bias against it takes only a little courage.
— James Randi
The great revolution of the future will be Nature's revolt against man.
— Holbrook Jackson
If Nature is against us, we shall fight Nature and make it obey.
— Simon Bolivar
Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Nature refuses to sympathize with our sorrow. She seems not to have provided for, but by a thousand contrivances against it.
— Henry David Thoreau
It is in the nature of a group and its power to turn against independence, the property of individual strength.
— Hannah Arendt
The battle we are fighting is not against a particular group. It is against human nature - or at least what it has become.
— Veronica Roth
The eye
it cannot choose but see;
We cannot bid the ear be still;
Our bodies feel, where'er they be,
Against or with our will. — William Wordsworth
it cannot choose but see;
We cannot bid the ear be still;
Our bodies feel, where'er they be,
Against or with our will. — William Wordsworth
Isn't that weird, we've made nature against the law. That's how un-natural we've become.
— Bill Hicks
Marijuana grows naturally ... Don't you think making nature against the law seems a bit, I don't know, unnatural?
— Bill Hicks
But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.
— Rachel Carson
Not to do as the child wishes would be wrong because he is born on a path, and it would be evil, a crime against nature to make him deny his spirit.
— Guy Vanderhaeghe
Where there is no love, a person's faithfulness to the marriage bond is probably against nature.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Civilization was a defense against nature's raw power.
— Gregory Benford
But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature.
— Michel De Montaigne
The sin against nature [is] - compulsory celibacy
— Francois Mauriac
Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against.
— Frances Wright
Photography is a witness against the mistaken opinion that art is an imitation of nature.
— Heinrich Heine
We do not need to be able to say what "human nature" is in order to be able to say that some training is "against human nature.
— Paul Goodman
Caring passionately about something isn't against nature, and it isn't against human nature. It's what we're here to do.
— Annie Dillard
Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.
— Dennis Gabor
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
— William Ellery Channing
A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.
— Bruce Lee
It is very foolish of a man to be frightened of a skeleton, for Nature has put an insurmountable obstacle against running away from it.
— G.K. Chesterton
Let's stop fighting over who we believe created the planet, work together against those that choose to destroy it.
— Jack Barker
But society is always most cruel to those who betray its secretes, showing where it's dishonesty commits a crime against nature.
— Stefan Zweig
We are so inculcated with guilt that we think that weakness is a sin or that it is some crime against nature to be submissive.
— Anton Szandor LaVey
The man stood alone by the hive. On impulse he put his palm against the wood, as if feeling for a pulse.
— Laline Paull
I can't go against my nature because I am what I am. I don't try to be anyone different to who I am.
— Brian McDermott
It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different.
— John Shelby Spong
It becomes almost second nature to be on guard against the creative pattern of our own thought.
— Alice Childress
She hated the love she had been given, because it had asked for nothing in return, which was absurd, unreal, against the laws of nature
— Paulo Coelho
Raw toast," Lucas said grimly, shaking his head. "It goes against the very nature of man.
— Julia Quinn
Every social system is more or less against nature, and at every moment nature is at work to reclaim her rights.
— Paul Valery
Against nature and within nature there is no freedom.
— Ludwig Von Mises
My way is to develop the hidden potentialities of man; a way that is against Nature and against God.
— G.I. Gurdjieff
To destroy a standing crop goes against the soundest instincts of human nature.
— Henry Cantwell Wallace
Work is against human nature. The proof is that it makes us tired.
— Michel Tournier
Nobody in this world was born to be the same as anyone else. Turning people into robots, especially children, is a crime against nature itself.
— Jenna Miscavige Hill
Human nature is against it. People just tend to behave in certain ways because they are people. And
— Jo Walton
We're not going to allow gay people to adopt children, that's against nature, it's against nature's God.
— William Anthony Donohue
Man's chief goal in life is still to become and stay human, and defend his achievements against the encroachment of nature.
— Eric Hoffer
By living a life "against nature," the deviant or pervert becomes a hero or heroine in decadent fiction.
— Asti Hustvedt