Government Quote by Jeremy Bentham

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.

— Jeremy Bentham

Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we…

— Jeremy Bentham

The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all…

— John Locke

Mankind's ability to understand and control the forces of nature greatly exceeds our ability to govern ourselves

— George Soros

“What is nature like? It does not allow any living being to do what it wants even to the slightest extent. But the one…

— Dada Bhagwan

“We are merely one of a multitude of species upon which nature indiscriminately exerts its force. Nature has a master agenda we can only…

— Camille Paglia

I feel like we as human beings are trampling all over the natural world, but at the same time, we are totally in its…

— Julia Kent

What human beings seek to learn from nature is how to use it to dominate wholly both it and human beings. Nothing else counts.

— Theodor Adorno

Ultimately, the human being is in the mercy of nature.

— Dalai Lama

Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs…

— Johan Huizinga

As long as Nature is seen as something outside ourselves; frontiered and foreign, separate, it is lost both to us and in us. It…

— Crispin Tickell

Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.

— Terence McKenna