Conditions Quotes - page 2

There is a divergence between private and social accounting that the market fails to register. One essential task of law and government is to institute the necessary conditions. (John Rawls)
It is right and necessary that all men should have work to do which shall be worth doing, and be of itself pleasant to do and which should he done under such conditions as would make it neither over-wearisome nor over-anxious. View quote
William Morris
One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and hold fast to the days, as to fortune or fame. View quote
Willa Cather
It is possible to live happily in the here and now. So many conditions of happiness are available-more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don't have to run into the future in order to get more. View quote
Nhat Hanh
Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions. View quote
Will Durant
Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement. View quote
Patricia Hill Collins
Every man who refuses to accept the conditions of life sells his soul. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
In conditions of private property ... "life-activity” stands in the service of property instead of property standing the service of free life-activity. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans. View quote
Margaret Wheatley
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
The task of universal pragmatics is to identify and reconstruct universal conditions of possible mutual understanding. (Jürgen Habermas)
Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian. View quote
Emma Goldman
Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions. View quote
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The very fact that we are having a national conversation about what we should eat, that we are struggling with the question about what the best diet is, is symptomatic of how far we have strayed from the natural conditions that gave rise to our species, from the simple act of eating real, whole, fresh food. View quote
Mark Hyman, M.D.
And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words. View quote
Ulrich Beck
I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict. View quote
Frank B. Kellogg
The conditions of the near future must naturally develop from those which we see today; and I think that as we look about us, unless we are terribly prejudiced, we must admit that in spite of our boasted civilization there is very much which is highly unsatisfactory. p. 324. View quote
Charles Webster Leadbeater
You can not entertain weak, harmful, negative thoughts ten hours a day and expect to bring about beautiful, strong and harmonious conditions by ten minutes of strong, positive, creative thought. View quote
Charles F. Haanel
Even before I came to Chicago, I had gotten interested in the existence of dispersion of prices under conditions which economic theory said would yield a single price. View quote
George Stigler
Its the best time ever to be a doctor because you can heal and treat conditions that were untreatable even a few years ago. (Joseph Murray)
This disaster did not force us to abandon our ideal; on the contrary, from the very first months of the conflict, it led us to define precisely the conditions for its realization. View quote
Leon Jouhaux
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them. View quote
Denis Waitley
Using adult stem cells drawn from bone marrow and umbilical cord blood system cells, scientists have discovered new treatments for scores of diseases and conditions such as Parkinson's disease, juvenile diabetes, and spinal cord injuries. View quote
Nathan Deal
Ultimately it's a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react. View quote
Derek Jacobi