Quotes of: Social-conditions Keyword

The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness.

Jane Smiley

[repeated line] Leonard Shelby: I have this condition.

Memento

Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal.

Robert Smithson

The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.

Rutherford B. Hayes

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Nadia Boulanger

Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.

Benjamin Cardozo

If a relationship comes with conditions apply, it's not worth having.

Saru Singhal

Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.

Voltaire

Discretion is a virtue. A woman's reputation directly influences her social status. This is why women are easier to get into bed when they are on vacation——they are more likely to indulge in an adventure that they trust holds no social consequenc...

The Mystery Method: How to Get Beautiful Women Into Bed

On the 26th of January 1950, we are going to enter into a life of contradictions. In politics we will have equality and in social and economic life we will have inequality. In politics we will be recognizing the principle of one man one vote and one ...

Writings And Speeches

When we encounter a friend who's depressed or afraid, we automatically try to take that distress away and to cheer the person up. While we may be operating with the best of intentions, this Band-Aid approach only reinforces the condition. Unless peop...

Horse Sense and the Human Heart

We are condemned to be modern. We can’t escape the facts of our history or of living in an age dominated by instrumental rationality, even as we look for ways out of it... But it has become our historic responsibility to acknowledge the continuing ...

Beyond Bookchin: Preface for a Future Social Ecology

...[G]reat progress was evident in the last Congress of the American 'Labour Union' in that among other things, it treated working women with complete equality. While in this respect the English, and still more the gallant French, are burdened with a...

Selected Letters: The Personal Correspondence 1844-1877

How, then,' I hear you ask, 'shall I attain my end, whether it be Christian love, socialism, or American democracy?' Your Christian love and your socialism and your American democracy are what you do each day, your manner of thinking each hour, of em...

Listen, Little Man!

...the only way out consists of using a social mask. This is why those under depression will smile more as well as make efforts to please and entertain compared to anyone else. ... If they could hide in public, and they do hide in other ways, both ps...

Overcoming Depression: Pragmatic Solutions to Deal with Suicidal Thoughts

There is another Brain Principle to go with ‘First Things First’: that of ‘Last Things Too’. This states that, all other things being equal, you will recall more easily the ‘last’ things. Check your own memory banks and see if this princi...

The Power Of Social Intelligence

The social organs are constituted so as to enable them to develop harmoniously in the grand air of liberty. Away, then, with quacks and organizers! Away with their rings, and their chains, and their hooks, and their pincers! Away with their artificia...

Frederic Bastiat

It wasn’t that she necessarily wanted to “socialize” at the bonfire, but she wanted to broadcast to the general population that her antisocial behavior was a personal choice not a sentence to social leprosy.

Caged in Darkness

I finally understood what could drive kids to show up with guns and shoot up their schools.

Freaky Freshman: A Memoir of Bullying and Social Anxiety

Today, most young women are exposed to technology at a very young age, with mobile phones, tablets, the Web or social media. They are much more proficient with technology than prior generations since they use it for all their school work, communicati...

Susan Wojcicki

Finding the perfect lookalike to work with is crucial and a lengthy process. We have our regulars, but we also use social media all the time to find people. It's amazing who you can unearth on Twitter.

Alison Jackson