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Quotes About Condition

Feeding the family trumps conviction every time, Mary though, a basic law of the human condition.
~ Karen Essex
Ye're playing fer the house? But ye won it just a month ago! Why,this land is worth more than yer estate near Stirling! Now that he'd toured the land and knew the true condition of the house, Dougal was tempted to agree. The deed to MacFarlane House was worth far more than he'd originally thought. Shelton shook his head. Ye're moonstruck, me lord. Moonstruck and fairy-pinched.
~ Karen Hawkins
Maybe anosognosia, the inability to see your own disability, is the human condition and I'm the only one who doesn't suffer from it.
~ Karen Joy Fowler
You think she's got a personality disorder? No, she's just a nasty bitch. An unpleasant personality isn't a medical condition. Just a symptom of not being slapped around the head enough.
~ Karen Traviss
Everybody had something horrible happen to them at one time or another in their life; it was part of the human condition. How they struggled through adversity proved what kind of people they were.
~ Karin Slaughter
The demand to give up the illusions about its condition is the demand to give up a condition that needs illusions
~ Karl Marx
M–L is the characteristic moment of the transformation of money capital into productive capital, for it is the essential condition without which the value advanced in the money form cannot really be transformed into capital, into value-producing surplus-value. M–mp is necessary only in order to realize the mass of labour bought by way of M–L.
~ Karl Marx
The purchase and sale of slaves is also in its form a purchase and sale of commodities. Without the existence of slaves, however, money cannot fulfil this function. If there is slavery, then money can be spent on the acquisition of slaves. But money in the hand of the buyer is in no way a sufficient condition for the existence of slavery.
~ Karl Marx
The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.
~ Karl Marx
To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is therefore in embryo the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo
~ Karl Marx
The essential condition for the existence and sway of the bourgeoisie class,is the formation and augmentation of capital; the condition for capital is wage-labor.
~ Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
I love the irony. I'm perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man.
~ Michael J. Fox
Death stamps the characters and conditions of men for eternity. - As death finds them in this world, so will they be in the next.
~ Nathanael Emmons
This is what you learned in college," the narrator tells you early on. "A man desires the satisfaction of his desire; a woman desires the condition of desiring.
~ Pam Muñoz Ryan
Solitude lies at the lowest depth of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels himself to be alone and the only one who is searching for the Other.
~ Octavio Paz
God cannot send to eternal pain a man who has done something toward improving the condition of his fellow-man. If he can, I had rather go to hell than to heaven and keep company with such a god.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
A woman without a man -- a condition of 'manlessness' -- is defined as alone. But a single mother is less alone than the average housewife.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Pharisaism is not a degeneration in a good man: a large portion of it is rather the condition of all being-good.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
For the greatest fool and rascal in creation there is yet a worse condition; and that is, not to know it, but to think himself a respectable man.
~ George MacDonald
The essential tendency of life is toward happiness . . . . Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.
~ Phillips Brooks
Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man, imprisonedin mortal life, lies open to the mercy of coming events.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.
~ Honore de Balzac
Men think to mend their condition by a change of circumstances. They might as well hope to escape from their shadows.
~ James Anthony Froude