Character Quote by Saint Augustine

[A] science fiction story is one which presupposes a technology, or an effect of technology, or a disturbance in the natural order, such as…

— Edmund Crispin

When one is a child, the disposition of objects, tables and chairs and doors, seems part of the natural order: a house-move lets in…

— Elizabeth Bowen

Christ's miracles were not the suspension of the natural order but the restoration of the natural order. They were a reminder of what once…

— Anonymous

“A recognized fact which goes back to the earliest times is that every living organism is not the sum of a multitude of unitary…

— Walter Hess

“I guess you can't compare humans to birds. Humans are rational beings. They're not just creatures without any sense of responsibility, ruled by drives…

— Johanna Sinisalo

Life is a continuous flux. Our nonhuman ancestors bred, generation after generation, and incrementally begat what we now deem to be the species homo…

— Sam Harris

“There are those who like things just they are and will stop at nothing to keep them that way, and those who understand that…

— Margaret Wander Bonanno

“We must never forget that we are cosmic revolutionaries, not stooges conscripted to advance a natural order that kills everybody.”

— Alan Harrington

Human beings are what I think of as "biomythic" animals: we're controlled largely by the stories we tell. When we get the story wrong,…

— Sam Keen

Because a human being is endowed with empathy, he violates the natural order if he does not reach out to those who need care.…

— Dayananda Saraswati

A way of life that keeps saying 'Around the next corner, above the next step,' works against the natural order of things and makes…

— Benjamin Hoff

Slavery always has, and always will produce insurrections wherever it exists, because it is a violation of the natural order of things.

— Angelina Grimke