State Nature

Famous quotes containing the words state and/or nature:

“For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)

“If not against us, nature is not for us.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)