Nude Quotes: Thought Provoking

Thought Provoking

A Nudist is simply a human being without 'Artificial Additives'!

"...Nowhere, he thought with satisfaction, could there be a group of young ladies that wasted less time upon frivol and froth. No fluffy-duff primping, no feather, no fuss. They were simply themselves and chose not to disquise it."
- Dr. Seuss`s "The Seven Lady Godivas" Random House 1939.

We are nude not lewd

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

"We are so narrow minded that we show war, murder, rape, etc. on TV, but we do not allow to show one of the most wonderfull creations (the human body) in its natural form."
Mario Roman

Clothes are not an expression of who you are, but of where you are.

Walk Nude, and people won`t need to undress you with their eyes.

"Nudity is a state of fact; lewdity, to coin a phrase, is a state of mind."
-Paul Outerbridge, Jr. (photographer)

An assignee is clothed with the rights of his principal.
Legal Maxim

"With the recent extreme heat in the United States this summer (1995), I wonder how many of those deaths might have been avoided by being nude?"

"If everyone were nude, there would be no war..."

"Yet could it be possible, in the long run, to wear clothes without learning modesty, and through modesty lasciviousness?"
- C. S. Lewis in "Perelandra"

"It will be great to one day see beaches everywhere with that great little slogan: Beyond this point you may encounter nude sunbathers."
- Roslyn Scheer, New Executive Director, AANR

"If it`s so dirty to be naked, why do we get naked to get clean?"
- Bryan Maloney

"42 men were prosecuted at Atlantic City NJ in 1935 for appearing in public wearing bathing suits without tops. How many more years do we have to go for top-free equality?"
- David Engman

"There seems, by the way, to be nothing pending in the Christian Coalition`s political wish list about sheltering the homeless, feeding the hungry, or clothing the naked, unless, of course, the naked got that way for fun."
- Tom Teepen, Cox News Service

"It continues to baffle me why there is no attempt to censor television`s continual portrayal of homicide as a means of conflict resolution, while at the same time regarding an unclothed human body as a problem."
- Charlie Metcalf

"The Church says: The body is a sin.
Science says: The body is a machine.
Advertising says: The body is a business.
The body says: I am a fiesta."

- Eduardo Galeano, Windows on the World

"Nudism is not a spectator sport. We all have the equipment and everyone can play."
- Jim C. Cunningham, NLI

"It is an interesting question how far people would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes."
- Henry David Thoreau

"What a singular fact for an angel visitant to this earth to carry back in his note-book, that men were forbidden to expose their bodies under the severest penalties!"
- Henry David Thoreau, Journals

Finery is no less alien to virtue...., which is the strength and vigor of the soul. The good man is an athelete who enjoys competing in the nude."
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts