Industry is not only the instrument of improvement, but the foundation of pleasure. He who is a stranger to it may possess,… — Robert Blair Copy Share Image
For humans, the Arctic is a harshly inhospitable place, but the conditions there are precisely what polar bears require to survive -… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
A wise prince will seek means by which his subjects will always and in every possible condition of things have need of… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Since the time of the ancient Greeks a democracy has depended on its philosophers and creative artists. It can only flourish by… — Uta Hagen Copy Share Image
The shift in the world begins with a shift in our thinking. Shifting our thinking does not change the world, but it… — Peter Block Copy Share Image
As I understand it, Kantian constructivism is partly a position in normative ethics and partly a position in metaethics. In metaethics, it… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
When God calls a man, He does not repent of it. God does not, as many friends do, love one day, and… — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
It was necessary to bluff the Japanese camp commanders, with whatever authority I could muster, that I had come officially to ensure… — Wilfred Burchett Copy Share Image
it is axiomatic with most writing people that there are no such things as perfect conditions for work. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
A grand and almost untrodden field of inquiry will be opened, on the causes and laws of variation, on correlation of growth,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Africa's informal economy is one of the most innovative and inventive environments in the world. Yet it is an environment with little… — Richard Attias 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
Peace as a positive condition of society, not merely as an interim between wars, is something so unknown that it casts no… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
Capitalism is not only a better form of organizing human activity than any deliberate design, any attempt to organize it to satisfy… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
We bestow on others praise in which we do not believe, on condition that in return they bestow upon us praise in… — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
Art is the lens through which I experience the world. Art is the medium to present the human condition... love, fear, bewilderment,… — Alton Tobey Copy Share Image
... A power of obtaining veracity in the representation of material and tangible things, which, within certain limits and conditions, is unimpeachable,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion. You must take people as… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
It is an indication of the extent to which people are now isolated from the animals they eat that children brought up… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Red has been praised for its nobility of the color of life. But the true color of life is not red. Red… — Alice Meynell Copy Share Image
I was at Yale and I said to the poet Elizabeth Alexander, "I'm interested in the ways in which black health seems… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
You turn your life into a work of art in order to redeem the ordinariness - a condition you are stuck with. — Robert Dessaix Copy Share Image
I do not accept the fact that conditions that prevent people from attaining their eternal destiny were born into them without any… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
In meditation take care not to impose anything on the mind, or to tax it. When you meditate there should be no… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Hostile armies may face each other for years, striving for the victory which is decided in a single day. This being so,… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Conditions are changing all the time, and to adapt one's thinking to the new conditions, one must study. Even those who have… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Once you start backing into all of that, then you see this incredibly intricate, totally wrong-headed way to do things, but nevertheless… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible… — Larry Elder Copy Share Image
Ultimately, we are not subject to the conditions that confront us; rather, these conditions are subject to our decision ... we must… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Pie throwing is kind of a lost art, and although it may be a rather rudimentary, burlesque humor, there's something inherently funny… — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
The causal dimensions, the planes of light, are happiness. They are all different and are all endless. They border the shores of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If I had to choose one which best characterized the condition of being a political leader in Athens, the word would be… — Moses Finley Copy Share Image
Reality cannot be photographed or represented. We can only create a new reality. And my dilemma is how to make art out… — Alfredo Jaar Copy Share Image
Writers and filmakers, that is, people who describe the world, suffer from an occupational disease. They never experience moments in life quite… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
One day liberation will come, and it won't be a day; it won't be a year; it won't be a time, a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
How do we cultivate the conditions for joy to expand? We train in staying present. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
A republic will avoid war unless the avoidance might create conditions that are worse than warfare itself. Sometimes, the dispositions of those… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society; in short, to the very… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image