Quotes on Condition

Sustainability makes good business sense, and we're all on the same team at the end of the day. That's the truth about the human condition.

The truth, of course, is that the only necessary and sufficient condition for human beings to murder one another is the simple fact of being human.

I began life as an absolute monarchist - on condition, of course, that I be that monarch.

As I bent over the washboard and looked at my arms buried in soapsuds, I said to myself, 'What are you going to do when you grow old and your back gets stiff?' This set me to thinking, but with all my thinking I couldn't see how a poor washerwoman was going to better my condition.

Transience is one of the fundamental characteristics both of the human condition and of the political order.

What I am against is false optimism: the notion either that things have to go well, or else that they tend to, or else that the default condition of historical trajectories is characteristically beneficial in the long-run.

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.

As authors, most - most authors, our art is portraying the human condition. Trying to show you what it's like to be somebody else, trying to make you feel for somebody else. That means you have to have a high degree of empathy.

The more I think on the present condition of woman, the more am I oppressed with the reality of their degradation.

I don't have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I'm happier now than before I developed the condition.

Racism is endemic to the human condition, just as stupidity is. We will always have to be on guard against it. But now it is recognized as a scourge, as the crowning immorality of our age and our history.

Being a mother is no longer a liability, and being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition! That's what change looks like.

When there is in nature no fixed condition, how much less must there be in the life of a people, beings endowed with mobility and movement!

I think a culture of nonviolence will help create the condition where poverty is unacceptable, where racism is way behind us and not something that we have to deal with on a frequent basis, and where militarism and violence are reduced almost to be nonexistent.

When I was young, I was picked on for something that today I feel is amazing. One thing about me connects millions of people around the world. And it's my skin condition - vitiligo.

You are in a pitiable condition if you have to conceal what you wish to tell.

One may say that in a state of science where fundamental concepts have to be changed, tradition is both the condition for progress and a hindrance. Hence, it usually takes a long time before the new concepts are generally accepted.

Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand.

One of the things that science fiction gets to do is thought experiments about the human condition that would be impractical or unethical to conduct in real life.

Until you've looked a parent in the eye and told them their perfect child has a preexisting condition no insurance company will cover, you can't tell me the Affordable Care Act isn't worth fighting for.

If I am against the condition of the world, it is not because I am a moralist - it is because I want to laugh more.