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The world is a Hobbesian state of nature in which the struggle for domination is the very essence of international life.
— Charles Krauthammer
In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.
— Thomas Hobbes
It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.
— Aristotle.
Division was the only order.
— Iain M. Banks
Most of what we strive for in our modern life uses the apparatus of goal seeking that was originally set up to seek goals in the state of nature.
— Richard Dawkins
In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible ; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another.
— Baruch Spinoza
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
— Charles De Secondat
It is the artist who tries to gradually accustom people to the possibilities of a better state of things.
— C.A. Dawson Scott
In fact, the entire nature of this State seemed to highlight that political power was just an illusion provided to engage and excite us
— Brandon Sanderson
If owning frivolous articles of excess were indeed the trappings of malevolence, my home was ready to play host to the Axis powers.
— Michael Gurnow
Of all the various peoples of this world, none leaves the human body in the simple state of nature in which it was born.
— Jacqueline Delange
The highest degree of human attainment comes when a person is blissfully at peace with his or her own nature and the natural world.
— Kilroy J. Oldster
The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct.
— Henri Rousseau
Not the Christian religion only, but nature herself, cries out against the state of slavery.
— Pope Leo X
Every landscape is, as it were, a state of the soul, and whoever penetrates into both is astonished to find how much likeness there is in each detail.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
The state of emergency and critical nature of the times do not allow me, as they do not allow anyone, to embark on a blame game.
— Nicos Anastasiades
In a state of nature, the weakest go to the wall; in a state of over-refinement, both the weak and the strong go to the gutter.
— Elbert Hubbard
We were enveloped in that state of grace where one melds with the flow of Nature. Having once tasted it, one craves that state like water.
— Jack Loeffler
I should be glad if all the meadows on the earth were left in a wild state, if that were the consequence of men's beginning to redeem themselves.
— Henry David Thoreau
All these sounds, the crowing of cocks, the baying of dogs, and the hum of insects at noon, are the evidence of nature's health orsound state.
— Henry David Thoreau
Converted sinners ought frequently to reflect upon the sinfulness and misery of the state they were in by nature.
— Matthew Henry
States in the world are like individuals in the state of nature. They are neither perfectly good nor are they controlled by law.
— Kenneth Waltz
Peace is not just a desired state of being for people, but also enables the flourishing of nature as well as human-created landscapes.
— Norris Brock Johnson
Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state.
— Simon Davies
With men, the state of nature is not a state of peace, but war.
— Immanuel Kant
The ultimate form of our technological achievement will be identical to the beginning state of this nature.
— Toba Beta
Nature abhors a vacuum, even in the heads of statesmen.
— Clare Boothe Luce
Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.
— John Locke
Since love is the most delicate and total act of a soul, it will reflect the state and nature of the soul.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
It is in the nature of helping and counselling to be a process moving towards something rather than arriving at a state of completion.
— Pete Sanders
You are truly endearing when you sleep. I attribute this to the exotic nature of seeing you in a state of silence.- Tybalt — Seanan McGuire
Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle.
— Cormac McCarthy