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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

God in nature is God above us, God in law is God against us, but God in Christ is God with us and for us. -James Bennett — E.J. Evans

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

If mankind is naturally good, he is sure going against his nature more and more of the time. It sounds like a bad joke: the paranoids are after us. — Herbert Gold

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

Isn't that weird, we've made nature against the law. That's how un-natural we've become. — Bill Hicks

I hate how I've had the mantle set on my shoulders as being against the record label. We've had some issues, but that is the nature of business. — Sheryl Crow

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

You may well warn me against such an evil. Human nature is so prone to fall into it! — Jane Austen

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

A neurosis is wherever we are allied against our true nature. — James Hollis

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

The mind cannot live in nature, only against nature, only as its counterpart. — Hermann Hesse

Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal. — Arthur C. Clarke

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

There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another. — Edouard Manet

Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature. — Dennis Gabor

Talking about pollution, nobody's holy.
They who pollute, sinned against nature. — Toba Beta

Making prohibition work is like making water run uphill; it's against nature. — Milton Friedman

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

But the works of man are impotent against the assaults of nature ... — Edward Gibbon

Society is an artificial construction, a defense against nature's power. — Camille Paglia

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

The rain believes the earth exists just to give it something to fall against. — Nick Lantz

Most of the time things against nature is scarier than the scariest things of nature — Munia Khan

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

Sometimes, somehow ...
I feel that ocean contains tears of mother earth,
that mourns over terrible great sin done by men. — Toba Beta

We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature. — Plutarch

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

To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist. — Uta Hagen

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

Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing. — Ben Stein

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 the subtle cries of nature, I found peace. I found home. I found the past and the future strung into a present that demanded to be lived. — Jeni Dhodary

Against nature and within nature there is no freedom. — Ludwig Von Mises

The Monster Ball is by nature a protest: A youth church experience to speak out and celebrate against all forms of discrimination + prejudice. — Lady Gaga

That the act of hunting to eat was part of the cycle of nature, of the world living right, not like the needless violence of man against man. — A.G. Wyatt

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

My child was one of Nature's Tories pitted against a mother who was one of nurture's Lefties: it was no contest. — Allison Pearson

All discussion of the ultimate nature of things must necessarily be barren unless we have some extraneous standards against which to compare them. — James Jeans

She was the only person in the world who could make him act against his own nature — Mario Puzo

You cannot go against nature. She is stronger than the strongest of men. We can permit ourselves some liberties, but in details only. — Pablo Picasso