Condition Quotes - page 3

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa. (Eugène Ionesco)
History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition. View quote
Milton Friedman
It is always pitiful when any human being falls into a condition hardly more respectable than that of an animal. How much more pitiful it is when the person who falls has had all the advantages! View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
The soul contains few secrets and longings which cannot be sensibly discussed, analyzed, and polled. Solitude, the very condition which sustained the individual against and beyond his society, has become technically impossible. Logical and linguistic analysis demonstrate that the old metaphysical problems are illusory problems; the quest for the "meaning” of things can be reformulated as the quest for the meaning of words, and the established universe of discourse and behavior can provide perfectly adequate criteria for the answer. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
The young watch television twenty-four hours a day, they don't read and they rarely listen. This incessant bombardment of images has developed a hypertrophied eye condition that's turning them into a race of mutants. They should pass a law for a total reeducation of the young, making children visit the Galleria Borgese on a daily basis. View quote
Federico Fellini
To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great. View quote
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Everyone needs help. That's the human condition. View quote
Max Allan Collins
Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work. View quote
Thom Mayne
The first condition for making music is not to make a noise. View quote
Jose Bergamin
The first condition of success for the League of Nations is, therefore, a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America and France and Italy that there will be no competitive building up of fleets or armies between them. View quote
Arthur Henderson
Economics is a strange science. Our subject deals with some of the most important as well as mundane issues that impinge on the human condition. (Dale T. Mortensen)
War was forced upon mankind in his original civil and social condition. View quote
Elihu Root
If we wish to substitute for war the settlement of disputes by justice, we must first substitute for the condition of international anarchy a condition of international order. View quote
Alfred Hermann Fried
Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization. View quote
Arthur Keith
These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition. View quote
Douglas Sirk
I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition. View quote
Mercedes McCambridge
There's a sadness to the human condition that I think music is good for. It gives a counterpoint to the visual beauty, and adds depth to pictures that they wouldn't have if the music wasn't there. View quote
Mike Figgis
I was born with this. It's a hereditary genetic condition. This is something you can go your whole life without really knowing that something's wrong. I had high blood pressure, and that was the first sign. View quote
Steven Cojocaru
With all our mastery over the powers of Nature we have adhered to the view that the struggle for existence is a permanent and necessary condition of life. View quote
Frederick Soddy
Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people. View quote
Jawaharlal Nehru
To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition. (Jawaharlal Nehru)
Did satisfy myself mighty fair in the truth of the saying that the world do not grow old at all, but is in as good condition in all respects as ever it was. View quote
Samuel Pepys
To church in the morning, and there saw a wedding in the church, which I have not seen many a day; and the young people so merry one with another, and strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and woman gazing and smiling at them. View quote
Samuel Pepys
Music [is] a science peculiarly productive of a pleasure that no state of life, publick or private, secular or sacred; no difference of age or season; no temper of mind or condition of health exempt from present anguish; nor, lastly, distinction of quality, renders either improper, untimely, or unentertaining. View quote
Samuel Pepys
Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders. View quote
Daniel Webster