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Conditions Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville
- If men are to remain civilized or to become so, the art of associating together must grow and improve in the same ratio in which…
- Amongst democratic nations men easily attain a certain equality of conditions: they can never attain the equality they desire. It perpetually retires from before them,…
- Physical strength therefore is one of the first conditions of happiness and even of the existence of nations.
- Among the laws controlling human societies there is one more precise and clearer, it seems to me, than all the others. If men are to…
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- I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum… — Karen Armstrong
- We shouldn't be saying 'Save the planet'; we should be saying: 'Save viable conditions in which people can live.' That's what we're… — Margaret Atwood
- Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in… — Roger Babson
- You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is… — Bernard Baruch
- It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary. Life does… — Saint Basil
- Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul. — Charles Baudelaire
- Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily… — Jane Addams
- As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets, the advantage… — John Desmond Bernal
- One of the great advantages of cremation - apart from all sanitary conditions - lies in the swift restoration to Mother Nature… — Annie Besant