[President Johnson] had the political will to say that having one in five Americans living in the kind of abject conditions their… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Each time we arrive at a new level in extricating ourselves from economic, social, spiritual domination, we have a moment when we… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
We must learn to acknowledge that the creation is full of mystery; we will never entirely understand it. We must abandon arrogance… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Sometimes we believe that happiness is not possible in the here and now, that we need a few more conditions to be… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
When one of us dies of cancer, loses her mind, or commits suicide, we must not blame her for her inability to… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
Realization is wonderful, but you have to expand it until there's not a single defilement left in the mind and the mind… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Unerring wisdom ordained your lot, and selected for you the safest and best condition. Remember this, had any other condition been better… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
I have a medical condition, all right. It's called caring too much, and it's incurable. Also, I have eczema. — Billy Eichner Copy Share Image
I am not myself free or human until or unless I recognize the freedom and humanity of all my fellowmen... I am… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
The practical reason for freedom is that freedom seems to be the only condition under which any kind of substantial moral fiber… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
Ben Marcus has created an innovative and unflinching portrait of the turmoil of the human condition, providing the reader a most rare… — Myla Goldberg Copy Share Image
No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished; and there is… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
The worst thing someone gets is isolated. Isolation is the darkest part of any condition. You can live with almost any condition… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
It seems that the one thing that doesn't change is people's reaction to short-term conditions and their axiomatic ability to perpetuate them… — James O'Shaughnessy Copy Share Image
Our lives are bound by physical limits, familial ties, political conditions, and geographical restrictions. Individual freedom takes us beyond them all. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
When people speak of ideas that revolutionize society, they do but express the fact that within the old society, the elements of… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference… — Frederick Jackson Turner Copy Share Image
Action on the move creates its own route, creates to a very great extent the conditions under which it is to be… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
Is there a wrong way to say "I don't know"? Yes. When we declare ignorance, it should be a) honest and b)… — Leah Hager Cohen Copy Share Image
Take a young man from Gaza living in the most horrendous conditions - most of it imposed by Israel - who straps… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
I think awards in this country at this time are inappropriate to be received or given until the condition of the American… — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
I grew up feeling that to be gay was a tragedy. I didn't grow up thinking that it was morally wrong, but… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image