What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.Honoré de Balzac
The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.Sigmund Freud
We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.Sigmund Freud
People can't get their heads round the idea of a species surviving; you know, they're more concerned about how you treat a donkey in Sicily or something.Prince Philip
The Bay of Bengal is hit frequently by cyclones. The months of November and May, in particular, are dangerous in this regard.Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam