Unnatural Quotes - Page 6

• The term [Americanization] invokes the transformation of the landscape into unnatural mechanical shapes, of night into day, of speed for its own sake, an irrational passion for novelty at the expense of quality, a worship of gimmickry.

  Robert Stone

  Passion, Night, Quality

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• Pictures! Pictures! Pictures! Often, before I learned, did I wonder whence came the multitudes of pictures that thronged my dreams; for they were pictures the like of which I had never seen in real wake-a-day life. They tormented my childhood, making of my dreams a procession of nightmares and a little later convincing me that I was different from my kind, a creature unnatural and accursed.

  Jack London

  Dream, Real, Childhood

  Jack London (2017). “JACK LONDON Ultimate Collection: 250+ Works in One Volume: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Memoirs, Essays & Articles (Illustrated): The Call of the Wild, The Sea-Wolf, White Fang, The Iron Heel, The Scarlet Plague, A Son of the Sun, Son of the Wolf, South Sea Tales, Children of the Frost, John Barleycorn, The War of the Classes…”, p.931, e-artnow

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• I think there's an unnatural amount of social pressure on women, particularly mothers, to conform to certain standards of behavior, particularly in regard to our children.

  Jillian Medoff

  Mother, Children, Thinking

  Source: bookmagnet.wordpress.com

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• Non-co-operation in itself is unnatural, vicious and sinful.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Vicious, Operations

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.98, Courier Corporation

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• It's unnatural and unhealthy for a nation to be engaged in global crusades for some principle or idea while neglecting the needs of its own people.

  J. William Fulbright

  Ideas, People, Principles

  "Is America on the path to 'permanent war'?" by John Blake, www.cnn.com. November 24, 2010.

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• The indifference of children towards meat is one proof that the taste for meat is unnatural; their preference is for vegetable foods...Beware of changing this natural taste and making children flesh-eaters, if not for their health's sake, for the sake of their character; for how can one explain away the fact that great meat-eaters are usually fiercer and more cruel than other men; this has been recognised at all times and in all places.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Children, Character, Men

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• The allegory of Adam and Eve eating of the tree of evil, and entailing upon their posterity the wrath of God and the loss of everlasting life, admits of no other explanation than the disease and crime that have flowed from unnatural diet.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Loss, Wrath, Evil

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1821). “Queen Mab, a philosophical poem, with notes. [reputed to have been given by the author to W. Francis. Wanting the title-leaf, dedication and part of the last leaf].”, p.158

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• When romances do really teach anything, or produce any effective operation, it is usually through a far more subtle process than the ostensible one. The author has considered it hardly worth his while, therefore, relentlessly to impale the story with its moral as with an iron rod-or, rather, as by sticking a pin through a butterfly-thus at once depriving it of life, and causing it to stiffen in an ungainly and unnatural attitude.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Attitude, Butterfly, Iron

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1993). “Nathaniel Hawthorne: three complete novels”, Gramercy

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• Unnatural death always provoked a peculiar unease, an uncomfortable realization that there were still some things that might not be susceptible to bureaucratic control.

  P. D. James

  Peculiar, Realization, Might

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• We are born for synergy, just like the feet, just like the hands, just like the eyes, just like the rows of upper and lower teeth. Working against each other is unnatural, and being annoyed and turning one's back is counterproductive.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Eye, Hands, Feet

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• There is something unnatural about marriage. These two people are not going to be the same people in a few years. The trick is to live your own life while sharing the same space.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Years, Two, Space

  "Dustin Hoffman Says There's Something Unnatural About Marriage". www.icelebz.com. January 30, 2009.

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• In a way, human beings have never been part of the natural order; we're not biological in the normal sense. Normal biological animals stop eating when they're not hungry and stop breeding when there is no sense in breeding. By contrast, 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, we get out of harmony with the rest of the natural order. For a long time, our unnatural beahvior didn't threaten the natural world, but now it does.

  Sam Keen

  Thinking, Animal, Order

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• The presence of excessive wealth puts an unnatural spin on the appreciation of art.

  Steve Martin

  Appreciation, Art, Wealth

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• The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws. True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect's function in universe.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Law, Support, Democracy

  R. Buckminster Fuller (2008). “Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth”, p.103, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• No religion is better than an unnatural one.

  William Penn

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.66, Courier Corporation

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• But Shakespeare knows what the sphinx thinks, if anybody does. His genius is penetrative as cold midwinter entering every room, and making warmth shiver in ague fits. I think Shakespeare never errs in his logical sequence in character. He surprises us, seems unnatural to us, but because we have been superficial observers; while genius will disclose those truths to which we are blind.

  William Alfred Quayle

  Character, Thinking, Entering

  William Alfred Quayle (1900). “A Hero and Some Other Folks”

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• Domesticated animals such as dogs and cats are vulnerable and entirely dependent on us for all of their needs. They live very unnatural lives because they are not part of the human world and they are not part of the animal world.

  Gary L. Francione

  Dog, Cat, Animal

  Interview with Deb Olin Unferth, believermag.com. February 1, 2011.

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• When we see land as a community to which we belong,
  we may see it with love and respect. - Perhaps such a shift of values can be achieved
  by reappraising things unnatural, tame, and confined
  in terms of things natural, wild, and free.

  Aldo Leopold

  Land, Community, Wild And Free

  Aldo Leopold (2001). “A Sand County Almanac”, p.21, Oxford University Press

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• An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Citizens, Institutions, Horrible

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

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• My Lawyer being practiced almost from his Cradle in defending Falsehood; is quite out of his Element when he would be an Advocate for Justice, which as an Office unnatural, he always attempts with great Awkwardness if not with Ill-will.

  Jonathan Swift

  Ill Will, Justice, Office

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• If one writes or reads novels from the point of view of psychology, it is very inconsistent and petty to want to shy away from even the slowest and most detailed analysis of the most unnatural lusts, gruesome tortures, shocking infamy, and disgusting sensual or spiritual impotence.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Spiritual, Writing, Views

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• Photography today appears to be in a state of flight... The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his Sundays into a series of unnatural poses.

  Dorothea Lange

  Photography, Sunday, Today

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• Never thought my biggest cheerleader would be someone who thought I was evil and unnatural.

  Richelle Mead

  Evil, Would Be, Cheerleader

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• Nature is actually unnatural

  Haruki Murakami

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• The unnatural and the strange have a perfume of their own

  Fernando Pessoa

  Strange, Perfume

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