„The Usage of Torture is contrary to all the Dictates of Nature and Reason; even Mankind itself cries out against it, and demands loudly the total Abolition of it.“

— Catherine the Great

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„The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood, for the unity of us all.“
— Charlie Chaplin
„What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?“
— Michel Foucault
„Water, by its nature, never collides with or breaks against anything. On the contrary, it swallows up any attack harmlessly.“
— Morihei Ueshiba
„A bad feeling is a commotion of the mind repugnant to reason, and against nature.“
— Zeno of Citium
„But for those that are equal to have an unequal share and those that are alike an unlike share is contrary to nature, and nothing contrary to nature is noble.“
— Aristotle
„Religious ideas have sprung from the same need as all the other achievements of culture: from the necessity for defending itself against the crushing supremacy of nature.“
— Sigmund Freud