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There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.
William H. Seward
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Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time.
Alfred Marshall
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Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.


Abraham Maslow
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In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.


Thomas Hobbes
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The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.


Edward Dahlberg
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Having been through the muck and mire, I've had my own brush with bad choices.


Michael K. Williams
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The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.
Chinua Achebe
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'Taxi Driver' wasn't autobiographical in terms of the actual events, but I did draw on my own mental state.
Paul Schrader
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I found a correlation between the spreading of democracy after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise in slavery. Now, as countries, former Communist countries, became so-called democratic, people started to be enslaved by their own countrymen.
Loretta Napoleoni
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There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.


Brendan Behan
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I've always been supportive of the right of Israel as a state, and I've always fought against anti-Semitism, even in my own community.
Harry Belafonte
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Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own.
Terence
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Socialism means slavery.


Lord Acton
Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other.
Millard Fillmore
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Pre-state societies were far more violent than our own.


Steven Pinker
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I play a bad boy on television, but in real life I have a passion for nature and nature conservancy, specifically bird rehabilitation.
Mark Salling
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I worship impersonal Nature, which is neither 'good' or 'bad', and who knows neither love nor hatred.
Savitri Devi
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Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature.


Philip Pullman
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But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?
Harriet Martineau
After I retire, I have my own vision, which is not connected to the state of Israel. It's about me, living near the sea, and maybe writing something about the past.
Tzipi Livni