Human condition Quote by Salman Rushdie

If you based your knowledge of the human species exclusively on adverts, you'd think that the normal condition of humanity was to be a…

— Francis Spufford

For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.

— Wole Soyinka

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough…

— Joseph Addison

“Oh, wearisome condition of humanity, Born under one law, to another bound; Vainly begot, and yet forbidden vanity, Created sick, commanded to be sound.”

— Anonymous

The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.

— Henry Miller

My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing…

— Wole Soyinka

“It can be seen not just as part of the human condition, but central to what it is to be human. We recognize in…

— Tom Inglis

I do comparative studies of climate evolution, and the interactions between planetary atmosphere and surfaces and their radiation environment, and try to understand the…

— David Grinspoon

Galvanized people can do careless things. It is in the extreme and emotion-laden moments that distance and coolness are most required. I am tempted…

— George Friedman

A lot of what I do is try to watch tape and understand how guys come out of breaks - what their footwork looks…

— Luke Kuechly

I've had to make time to really explore all the amazing things that are out and try to understand the history of how fashion…

— Christopher Jackson

For a songwriter, you don't really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take…

— Tom Waits