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Condition Quotes by Wendell Berry
- A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define and…
- [All the ancient wisdom] tells us that work is necessary to us, as much a part of our condition as mortality; that good work is…
- We still (sometimes) remember that we cannot be free if our minds and voices are controlled by someone else. But we have neglected to understand…
- We can say without exaggeration that the present national ambition of the United States is unemployment. People live for quitting time, for weekends, for vacations,…
- It is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.
- We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it. And to take good care of it,…
More Condition Quotes
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and… — Margaret Atwood
- I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think… — Kevin Bacon
- A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse… — Mikhail Bakunin
- What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of… — Roland Barthes
- No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank… — Bruce Barton
- It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary. Life does… — Saint Basil
- The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility. — Georges Bataille
- Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown… — Joseph Addison
- When our Heavenly Father placed Adam and Eve on this earth, He did so with the purpose in mind of teaching them… — Ezra Taft Benson
- In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of… — Alfred Adler