In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress. — Charles William Eliot Copy Share Image
No one, but no one, ever behaves 'well' in bed unless they love or are loved - two conditions seldom fulfilled. — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
Pre-existing conditions for those previously insured must not lead to someone being unable to get insurance. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
We’re all born idiots, and we only get over that condition as we get less young. — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
I want to make films about the human condition, what we're doing to the world or ourselves. — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
Our prison in Georgia is a very different place from this prison here in Berlin. The conditions there are inhuman. — Irakli Okruashvili Copy Share Image
Every man is an infinitely repelling orb, and holds his individual being on that condition. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The boundary condition of the universe is that it has no boundary. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I was aware that a quarter of the children in the country are born in poverty, and that the condition of public… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
A well-developed sense of self is a necessary if not sufficient condition of your well-being. Its presence does not guarantee fulfillment, but… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Enslave a man and you destroy his ambition, his enterprise, his capacity. In the constitution of human nature, the desire of bettering… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
The poor peasant here hives under conditions quite different from those of Russia. Though often terrible, they are not as appalling as… — Herman Gorter Copy Share Image
I did not and do not think of the solidity-liquidity conundrum as a dichotomy; I view those two conditions as a couple… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Some of what we read in classical literature is not relative to our condition, but then many women novelists and poets have… — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
One of the hardest conditions of boyhood is the almost continuous strain put upon the powers of invention by the constant and… — Booth Tarkington Copy Share Image
Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their… — Louis Althusser Copy Share Image
The condition of the theater is always an accurate measure of the cultural health of a nation. A play always exists in… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
A poem is a place where the conditions of beyondness and withinness are made palpable, where to imagine is to feel what… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
The prime lesson the social sciences can learn from the natural sciences is just this: that it is necessary to press on… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
This is essentially a people's contest... whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men - to lift artificial weights from… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
In a country where misery and want were the foundation of the social structure, famine was periodic, death from starvation common, disease… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
One of the things that perhaps we can learn through the political process about bringing people together is to remember South Carolina,… — Tim Scott Copy Share Image
Living is already having been born, in a condition we have not chosen, a situation in which we find ourselves, a quarter… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
The only standard we have for judging all of our social, economic, and political institutions and arrangements as just or unjust, as… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one. What is most repellent in the System of Nature -… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
The fundamental act of medical care is assumption of responsibility. Surgery has assumed responsibility for disease which is largely acute, local or… — Francis Daniels Moore Copy Share Image
What is Americanism? Every one has a different answer. Some people say it is never to submit to the dictation of a… — Anna Howard Shaw Copy Share Image
If we, who live outside asylums, act as if we lived in a fictitious world- that is to say, if we are… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
... woman's cause is the cause of the weak; and when all the weak shall have received their due consideration, then woman… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
The assumption that everything past is preserved holds good even in mental life only on condition that the organ of the mind… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Never before has a populist democracy attained international supremacy. But the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion,… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The true problem of living is to keep our hearts sweet and gentle in the hardest conditions and experiences. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Life is never guaranteed to be safe, so we better use it while we are still in good condition. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
With a penetrating vision you can dissipate the obstruction, remove the obstacle, dissolve the wrong condition. — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
I have both sleep apnea and atrial fibrillation, which are both debilitating conditions. — Ted Turner Copy Share Image
Harvard created wonderful conditions for me as a writerbut the writing was done, almost entirely, when I got home. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favourable do nothing. — William Feather Copy Share Image
