Conditions Quotes - Page 27

• I was very concerned that President Bush is still trying to frighten or scare the American people with respect to the condition of the Social Security system.

  Paul Sarbanes

  Respect, Security Systems, People

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• I don't mind being black. I'm black out loud. It's more than the people that they are, it's the condition that they represent.

  Mos Def

  People, Black, Mind

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• If people only knew the healing power of laughter and joy, many of our fine doctors would be out of business. Joy is one of nature's greatest medicines. Joy is always healthy. A pleasant state of mind tends to bring abnormal conditions back to normal.

  Catherine Ponder

  Laughter, Healing, Health

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• Release and detach from every person, every circumstance, every condition, and every situation that no longer serves a divine purpose in your life. All things have a season, and all seasons must come to an end. Choose a new season, filled with purposeful thoughts and activities.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Inspirational, Change, Letting Go

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Sep 28, 2013

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• This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis, but it satisfies the conditions of a legitimate hypothesis, by postulating the operation of no unknown or uncertain cause, but only of that force of precedent which in all times has been so strong to keep alive religious forms of which the original meaning is lost.

  William Robertson Smith

  Religious, Strong, Alive

  William Robertson Smith (1907). “Religion of the Semites (Ppr)”, p.404, Transaction Publishers

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• Working with drug addicts, alcoholics, and so-called juvenile delinquents in New York City convinced me that instead of working with individuals, more effective methods would deal with the societal conditions that create dysfunctional behaviors in the first place.

  Jacque Fresco

  New York, Cities, Drug

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• It is not that people are evil or greedy. The conditions that socially support the system force us to behave in socially offensive ways.

  Jacque Fresco

  People, Evil, Support

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• Crime is based upon need, making money.  People sell drugs to make money.  But if everybody is cared for, they don't sell drugs and if there's no money you can't sell drugs even if you wanted to.  There'd be no such thing as gambling, prostitution, or selling out, or paying off a senator or a governor.  There are no senators, there are no governors so you can't pay them off.  If you take away the basis or the condition that generate abhorrent behavior, you don't have abhorrent behavior.

  Jacque Fresco

  Money, Caring, Gambling

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• You cannot advocate decency and ethics, you must design the conditions that eliminate the problems.  In scarcity, people will tend to steal.  If you make things available, people tend not to steal.

  Jacque Fresco

  People, Design, Scarcity

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• You can't exceed the system with language.  You can only exceed the system with events; recommended procedures that are better.  You can't exceed the system by telling people to be good, be kind, be considerate...  You have to take away the conditions that makes it necessary for you to be kind.  And to be kind, you design highways that aren't slippery; where no accidents, or less accidents, occur.  In the future, everybody becomes an innovator - a creator.

  Jacque Fresco

  People, Design, Events

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• As man reaches out toward the twenty-first century, he will learn to be suspicious of all ideas that are not formulated so that they can be tested by observation.  He will realize that the history of human thought shows that the ideas of which we are surest are the ones we most need to test.  He will realize that his common sense only mirrors his training and experience.  What seems natural and right to him is usually a reflection of the conditions under which he spent his first decade of life.

  Jacque Fresco

  Reflection, Men, Ideas

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• One does odd things. You see, when one's young one doesn't feel part of it yet, the human condition; one does things because they are not “for good”; one thinks everything is a rehearsal - to be repeated ad lib, to be put right when the curtain goes up in earnest. One day you know that the curtain was up all the time. That was the performance.

  Sybille Bedford

  Thinking, One Day, Rehearsal

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• One must find out for oneself, and make sure beyond doubt, 'who' one is, 'what' one is, 'why' one is... Being thus conscious of the proper course to pursue, the next thing is to understand the conditions necessary to following it out. After that, one must eliminate from oneself every element alien or hostile to success, and develop those parts of oneself which are specially needed to control the aforesaid conditions.

  Aleister Crowley

  Doubt, Elements, Next

  Aleister Crowley (1991). “Magick: In Theory and Practice”, Book Sales

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• We’re all born idiots, and we only get over that condition as we get less young.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Idiot, Young, Born

  "Jonah Goldberg: Young People Are ‘So Frickin Stupid,’ Voting Age Should Be Higher" by Anna Mazarakis, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2012.

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• Compassion constitutes a radical form of criticism, for it announces that the hurt is to be taken seriously, that the hurt is not to be accepted as normal and natural, but is an abnormal and unacceptable condition for humanness.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Hurt, Taken, Compassion

  "Ignore the Young, Forget the Old" by Tavis Smiley, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 10, 2012.

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• The chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of favorable business conditions.

  Benjamin Graham

  Loss, Quality, Investing

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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• Abnormally good or abnormally bad conditions do not last forever.

  Benjamin Graham

  Forever, Lasts

  Benjamin Graham, David Dodd (2002). “Security Analysis: The Classic 1940 Edition”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• From several of the Indian tribes inhabiting the country bordering on Lake Erie purchases have been made of lands on conditions very favorable to the United States, and, as it is presumed, not less so to the tribes themselves.

  James Monroe

  Country, Lakes, Land

  James Monroe (199?). “The Writings of James Monroe: 1817-1823”

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• The way we use our money is a barometer of our present spiritual condition. Our neglect of the poor illustrates much about where our hearts lie. But even more than that, the way we use our money is an indicator of our eternal destination. The mark of Christ followers is that their hearts are in heaven and their treasures are spent there

  David Platt

  Spiritual, Lying, Heart

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• Hostile armies may face each other for years, striving for the victory which is decided in a single day. This being so, to remain in ignorance of the enemy's condition simply because one grudges the outlay of a hundred ounces of silver in honors and emoluments, is the height of inhumanity.

  Sun Tzu

  Ignorance, Army, Years

  The Art of War (6th century b.c.).

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• A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.

  Allen Tate

  Two, Quality, Three

  allen tate (1953). “the man of letters in the modern world”

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• Bad books always lie. They lie most of all about the human condition.

  Walker Percy

  Lying, Book, Human Condition

  Walker Percy (2011). “Signposts in a Strange Land: Essays”, p.251, Open Road Media

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• There is a certain indolence in us, a wish not to be disturbed, which tempts us to think that when things are quiet, all is well. Subconsciously, we tend to give the preference to 'social peace,' though it be only apparent, because our lives and possessions seem then secure. Actually, human beings acquiesce too easily in evil conditions; they rebel far too little and too seldom. There is nothing noble about acquiescence in a cramped life or mere submission to superior force.

  A. J. Muste

  Thinking, Evil, Giving

  "The Essays of A. J. Muste (Pacifism and Class War)". Book edited by Nat Hentoff, 1967.

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• My mind is a centre of Divine operation. The Divine operation is always for expansion and fuller expression, and this means the production of something beyond what has gone before, something entirely new, not included in past experience, though proceeding out of it by an orderly sequence of growth. Therefore, since the Divine cannot change its inherent nature, it must operate in the same manner in me; consequently in my own special world, of which I am the centre , it will move forward to produce new conditions, always in advance of any that have gone before.

  Thomas Troward

  Moving, Mean, Past

  "The Wisdom of Thomas Troward".

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• In the house in Beverly Hills where our four children grew up, living conditions were a few thousand times improved over the old tenement on New York's East 93rd Street we Marx Brothers called home.

  Harpo Marx

  Brother, New York, Children

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