Conditions Quotes

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease. (William Osler)
During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions. View quote
Hermann Ebbinghaus
The circumstances of justice may be described as the normal conditions under which human cooperation is both possible and necessary. View quote
John Rawls
Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like caries and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Any kind of creative activity is likely to be stressful. The more anxiety, the more you feel that you are headed in the right direction. Easiness, relaxation, comfort - these are not conditions that usually accompany serious work. View quote
Joyce Carol Oates
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude. View quote
Dale Carnegie
In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation. View quote
Guy Debord
The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves. View quote
Leon Trotsky
The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. (Irving Kristol)
Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. View quote
Hannah Arendt
Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems. View quote
Fritz Sauckel
Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions. View quote
Benjamin N. Cardozo
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. View quote
Karl Marx
The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases. View quote
Larry Wall
Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture. View quote
Tadao Ando
Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power. View quote
Ulrich Beck
If we will maintain our hope and confidence in the genius of our people, they will work out this problem, and their ability and industry will bring us back to normal conditions. View quote
Frank B. Kellogg
I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up. View quote
Groucho Marx
Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows only that he has passed into it and lives beyond us, in a condition not ours. (John Updike)
Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery. View quote
Horace Mann
Conditions to the north of us, in the Voronezh and Steppe Fronts zone of action, and our offensive on Kharkov demands that we not lose time and we commit all forces so that we can draw off as many divisions as possible from Kharkov. And even if we do not draw them off, at least we will not give Manstein the ability to take any of his units from our part of the front. If we attract one or two German tank divisions - it will be the best contribution to the defeat of the enemy in the south. View quote
Aleksandr Vasilevsky
There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions, as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life. View quote
Viktor Frankl
As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets, the advantage of containing no organic material at all, so as to be independent of both these conditions, would be increasingly felt. View quote
John Desmond Bernal