Condition Quotes

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. (Thomas Szasz)
Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes. View quote
George Soros
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco. View quote
Edmund Burke
The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter. View quote
Willa Cather
If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power. View quote
Harriet Martineau
A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him. View quote
Mikhail Bakunin
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes
According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one condition of existence to another. View quote
Ernst Mayr
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom. (Benjamin N. Cardozo)
The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death." View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
I went out to Charing Cross, to see Major-general Harrison hanged, drawn and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could do in that condition. View quote
Samuel Pepys
To be a poet is a condition, not a profession. View quote
Robert Frost
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. View quote
Arnold J. Toynbee
The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them. View quote
Henry Miller
Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession. View quote
Robert Graves
Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another. View quote
Joseph Addison
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. View quote
Marilyn vos Savant
There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia,' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event. (Ronald David Laing)
The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable. View quote
Andrea Dworkin
...there must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientist, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale. View quote
Ralph Ellison
Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone. View quote
Thomas Hobbes