Quotes about The Human Condition

Mortality defines the human condition. Votes: 3

Everyone needs help. That's the human condition. Votes: 3

Cartoons are windows into the human condition, Votes: 3

Hope is what makes the human condition liveable Votes: 3

A digital frontier to reshape the human condition. Votes: 3

Human beings are interested in the human condition. Votes: 3

Branding is a profound manifestation of the human condition Votes: 3

Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition. Votes: 3

Memory isn't a theme; it's part of the human condition. Votes: 3

The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. Votes: 3

The challenge of the retail business is the human condition. Votes: 3

Thinking beyond the human condition often transcends us from it. Votes: 3

Hip-hop is about the human condition; it's about people's lives. Votes: 3

Everyone stumbles at one time or another. It's the human condition Votes: 3

Perhaps depression is a perfectly natural reaction to the human condition. Votes: 3

Fiction is the study of the human condition under imagined circumstances. Votes: 3

Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Votes: 3

Ultimately, a timeless story has to be about the human condition. Votes: 3

I like real problems, the human condition - twisted, darker stuff. Votes: 3

I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy. Votes: 3

We want to live in ambiguity. This is the human condition. Votes: 3

Great leaders motivate large groups of individuals to improve the human condition. Votes: 3

The best entertainment speaks to the human condition in an honest way. Votes: 3

Why would you design something if it didn't improve the human condition? Votes: 3

Bad books always lie. They lie most of all about the human condition. Votes: 3

Everything in life is about sharing; it is part of the human condition Votes: 3

We like to believe that, in our lifetime, the human condition is improving. Votes: 3

Taigen Dan Leighton has lovingly illumined still another dimension of the human condition. Votes: 3

Art is many things but, directly or indirectly, it always describes the human condition. Votes: 3

We need metaphors of magic and monsters in order to understand the human condition. Votes: 3

I think Shakespeare had a lot to contribute with his understanding of the human condition, Votes: 3

The very acceptance of the limited means of the human condition makes for endless creativity. Votes: 3

Is the human condition not defined by an endless struggle to control the ego's subterfuges? Votes: 3

Is the human condition not defined by an endless struggle to control the ego's subterfuges? Votes: 3

Anything that reflects the human condition back on humans in the entertainment medium is art. Votes: 3

In God becoming human in Jesus Christ, God has established solidarity with the human condition. Votes: 3

I think Shakespeare had a lot to contribute with his understanding of the human condition. Votes: 3

If we can't laugh at ourselves and the human condition, we're going to be mean. Votes: 3

I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition. Votes: 3

A good song deals with the human condition, and the truth of the human condition. Votes: 3

It's an actor's job to play all the human conditions - light, dark, and medium. Votes: 3

I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky. Votes: 3

I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition. Votes: 3

What you might see as depravity is, to me, just another aspect of the human condition. Votes: 3

No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition. Votes: 3

Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope; winter alone reminds us of the human condition. Votes: 3

It seems that fiction no longer produces work that makes one feel the human condition deeply. Votes: 3

We believe that an individual must endeavor to assume the universalism inherent in the human condition. Votes: 3

I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that. Votes: 3

Setting clear goals and finding measures that will mark progress toward them can improve the human condition. Votes: 3

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition. Votes: 3

A writer or any suffering artist-to-be is just an instrument too finely set to the human condition [...] Votes: 3

You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening. Votes: 3

the best existential analysis of the human condition leads directly into the problems of God and faith Votes: 3

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. Votes: 3

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. Votes: 3

The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition. Votes: 3

I don't ever expect to be permanently happy. I don't think that's part of the human condition. Votes: 3

I want to make films about the human condition, what we're doing to the world or ourselves. Votes: 3

May the work of your hands be a sign of gratitude and reverence to the human condition. Votes: 3

Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions. Votes: 3

Privacy is an inherent human right, and a requirement for maintaining the human condition with dignity and respect. Votes: 3

Experiencing differences is crucial to the human condition. Especially when that difference is over the head, blower powder. Votes: 3

I think what makes people fascinating is conflict, it's drama, it's the human condition. Nobody wants to watch perfection. Votes: 3

You could do math early, but there are no brilliant 16-year-old novelists. They don't know the human condition yet. Votes: 3

Other kingdoms are still present on earth along with the kingdom of the heavens. That is the human condition. Votes: 3

The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life. Votes: 3

Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Votes: 3

The Fall is an offense to human reason, but once accepted, it makes perfect sense of the human condition. Votes: 3

I ma trying to feel more well adjusted than I really am, which is, I guess, the human condition. Votes: 3

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone. Votes: 3

I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition. Votes: 3

We see the world through the lens of all our experiences; that is a fundamental part of the human condition. Votes: 3

Angst is not the human condition, it's the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can't get. Votes: 3

People have been bred to hate for generations -- eons, maybe. Some fundamental urge. Something implicit in the human condition. Votes: 3

Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors. Votes: 3

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool. Votes: 3

I'm just looking for characters that continue to make me stretch and grow and learn more about the human condition. Votes: 3

There is a reason the word belonging has a synonym for want at its center; it is the human condition. Votes: 3

As long as greed, stupidity and cowardice remain a part of the human condition, there will be a constituency for Democrats. Votes: 3

Don't expect people to behave perfectly-after all, they are people, with all of the faults and frailties of the human condition. Votes: 3

I hug employees all the time. I'm a huge contact person. Touch is an extremely important part of the human condition. Votes: 3

I thought if I could create a convincing cat I could say and do anything I wanted on the human condition. Votes: 3

You treat violence as an aberration ... when in truth it is the norm. It is the very essence of the human condition. Votes: 3

Without a doubt, stem cell research will lead to the dramatic improvement in the human condition and will benefit millions of people. Votes: 3

It's the desire to study the human condition, the desire for collaboration, to learn and absorb, and to lead a well-examined life. Votes: 3

Theater publicly reveals the human condition through appealing to both intellect and emotion. Architecture, whether lowly or exalted, can do the same. Votes: 3

What I want any genre to do, what I want any work of art to do, is to illuminate the human condition. Votes: 3

I don't think any human being/artist is 100% emotionally stable, based on the human condition and our emotions that relate to it. Votes: 3

Acting is usually regarded as a wholly narcissistic pursuit but there really is a hunger in me to unravel the human condition. Votes: 3

Trying to figure things out was my gig. Without the human condition, there's no struggle, no pain and that means no laughter. Votes: 3

You can either be a vain movie star, or you can try to shed some light on different aspects of the human condition. Votes: 3

It seems to be part of the human condition to need someone you can look down on. I still don't get that one. Votes: 3

Most good actors have a huge intelligence about the human condition and a real open heart to different kinds of people and behavior. Votes: 3

I think somehow I got a sense of the foolishness of the human - my favorite phrase, the foolishness of the human condition. Votes: 3

Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions - whether of sex, race, or servitude. Votes: 3

Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition. Votes: 3

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes. Votes: 3

The tragedy of the human condition is that the thing that makes us most human - community - originates in the inhumanity of war. Votes: 3

When freedom prevails, the ingenuity and inventiveness of people creates incredible wealth. This is the source of the natural improvement of the human condition. Votes: 3

When freedom prevails, the ingenuity and inventiveness of people creates incredible wealth. This is the source of the natural improvement of the human condition. Votes: 3

The Odyssey and Iliad say things about the human condition in ways we should re-acquaint ourselves with, and use as a prism to interpret though. Votes: 3

In every aspect of life, purity and holiness, cleanliness and refinement, exalt the human condition . . . Even in the physical realm, cleanliness will conduce to spirituality. Votes: 3

What interests me is love, sex, death, cruelty, compassion and the desire for meaning in an apparently godless universe. In other words the human condition. Votes: 3

Economics is a strange science. Our subject deals with some of the most important as well as mundane issues that impinge on the human condition. Votes: 3

I think that laziness in many ways is the human condition, and that's what has led us to this place where, as we've developed technology. Votes: 3

I love the grandiosity, how sweepingly entertaining films can be. And I think there's a place for films that pry more into the human condition. Votes: 3

I wanted to understand pain and the human condition, which is full of pain and regret and sadness - and some happiness, if you're lucky. Votes: 3

The world is, was, will always be filled with good and evil, because good and evil is the yin and yang of the human condition. Votes: 3

Gambling is part of the human condition. I love it. I have the best time gambling. I've been winning fortunes, and I've been losing them. Votes: 3

I'm somebody who believes in funny things, and laughing, but I do like for them to come from a place that addresses the human condition. Votes: 3

There was no cure for the human condition because every man read the present and plotted the future in the light of his own past. Votes: 3

I think that if you're writing about the human condition, my God, you've got to start at base: point zero, point one, is the body. Votes: 3

As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding. Votes: 3

My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects of the human condition, but I do not consciously set out to do so: I am a storyteller. Votes: 3

Nasr combines in his writing audacious intellectual criticism, deep understanding of Islam... and a commitment to the Western-European contributions to the emancipation of the human condition. Votes: 3

In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition. Votes: 3

A smile is merely a symptom of the human condition called happiness. Animals are affected by that condition more often though the symptoms are not so obvious. Votes: 3

For me, comedy is a day-to-day report on the human condition. It's what's happening right now. I get maybe 20 minutes of my act straight from the newspaper. Votes: 3

The opulence of Wilde is a bit too florid for Sherlock, who is a much darker character, ... fascinated by the human condition, but also overwhelmed by it. Votes: 3

As an actress, I'm drawn to emotion and expressing the human condition in all its forms, and I'm fortunate to have thoughts and feelings at my fingertips. Votes: 3

I read novels for entertainment rather than for edification, so I tend not to read the sort of novels that are said to illuminate the human condition. Votes: 3

It would be wonderful if people could grow together in groups, teaching and learning communities where they empower, evoke, explore the enormous capacities of the human condition. Votes: 3

This idea of how everything is interconnected, and the impermanence of things.. It sums up the human condition to me, and it helps me on my path. Votes: 3

The Yogic path is about disentangling the built-in glitches of the human condition, which I'm going to over-simply define here as the heartbreaking inability to sustain contentment. Votes: 3

The psychic entropy peculiar to the human condition involves seeing more to do than one can actually accomplish and feeling able to accomplish more than what conditions allow. Votes: 3

My primary motivation for writing is to communicate my perceptions and insights into the human condition, in a way that may provide understanding, comfort, and company to others. Votes: 3

I write more for the children of the computer revolution, who are also interested in speculation and exploring the human condition, but approach it from an information perspective. Votes: 3

What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history. Votes: 3

My suggestion is that there's no way out of the human condition. Sex, death, marriage, children, parents, illness. There's no way out. They're a misery, all of them. Votes: 3

Both the Freudian and the Platonic metaphors emphasize the considerable independence of and tension among the constituent parts of the psyche, a point that characterizes the human condition. Votes: 3

I think you have to live inside your contradictions and find a way to accept that that's the human condition - to be forced to live in contradiction. Votes: 3

A realistic recognition of the human condition is that it is corrupt beyond belief. What do you suppose would happen if the police all took a week off? Votes: 3

A short story is a shard, a sliver, a vignette. It's a biopsy on the human condition but it doesn't have this capacity to think autonomously for itself. Votes: 3

I have never quite understood - and this is no doubt my failing - I never quite understood why you would read fiction to understand the human condition. Votes: 3

These are pictures of the people in my family where we look like the most awkward and desperate folk you ever saw, poster children for the human condition. Votes: 3

If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is. Votes: 3

I look at life, the experiences I've had, at the human condition, the dynamics between people, the news (world news), and draw from the compelling realities all around us. Votes: 3

Mission: Impossible' is fun. But for myself as an artist, I'm really more concerned with the human condition, the human experience, especially from an African American point of view. Votes: 3

I'm a sensitive guy; I respond to things that make my eyes well up a little bit, or make me root for people. I find the human condition interesting. Votes: 3

Man could escape danger only by renouncing adventure, by abandoning that which has given to the human condition its unique character and genius among the rest of living things. Votes: 3

Everybody is looking for validation, no matter who you are, and I think that's a need of the human condition - to look for affection or recognition or validation. Votes: 3

I am really fascinated by self-sabotage. I think that there's not a person I know who doesn't fall victim to it. It's essential to the human condition, and relatable. Votes: 3

Maybe we're about to radically change the operating system of the human condition. If so, then this would be a really good time to make backups of our civilization. Votes: 3

Sometime you just need to be silent, have a drink and crack a smile or somethin', because the human condition, in general, is just overwhelming in so many ways. Votes: 3

Moreover, the human condition, if that is what it is, has been getting steadily worse in the Corporate State; more and more life-denying just as life should be opening up. Votes: 3

I'm just trying to say that it should reassure us that the inevitable traumas of being human do end up producing some good. Otherwise, the human condition is overwhelmingly depressing. Votes: 3

Kant does represents a distinctively modern view of the human condition in contrast to that of ancient high culture, found in ancient Greek ethics and also in ancient Chinese ethics. Votes: 3

The mess of the human condition is that fundamental trust has not yet been realized. The true value of profound spiritual experience lies in the discovery of that fundamental trust. Votes: 3

I'm attracted to the extreme light and the extreme dark. I'm interested in the human condition and what makes people tick. I'm interested in the things people try to hide. Votes: 3

We all have to lead double lives, not just celebrities. The face we put on publicly with our jobs and certain situations. I think that's part of the human condition. Votes: 3

We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics. Votes: 3

The tales of Elfland do not stand or fall on their actuality but on their truthfulness, their speaking to the human condition, the longings we all have for the Faerie Other. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Certainly, I think being depressed is absolutely part of the human condition, it has to be, if there's joy there's its opposite, and it's something you ride if you possibly can. Votes: 3

Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and insults that come when they are not paid back. Votes: 3

The news media in general are liberal. If you want to be a reporter, you are going to see poverty and misery, and you have to be involved in the human condition. Votes: 3

Highway One, Antarctica is a wonderful debut by a writer with razor-sharp insights to the human condition. Justin Herrmann is a voice I hope to hear more from, and soon. Excellent collection. Votes: 3

Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence. Votes: 3

The best fantasy does not offer an answer to our lives, it is an offering that acknowledges enough of the truth to resonate and add to the understanding about the human condition. Votes: 3

People who are mean or unkind or rigid - think about it - cannot laugh at themselves. If we can't laugh at ourselves and the human condition, we're going to be mean. Votes: 3

If you look at the human condition today, not everyone is well fed, has access to good medical care, or the physical basics that provide for a healthy and a happy life. Votes: 3

A man is a man to the extent that he is a superman. A man should be defined by the sum of those tendencies which impel him to surpass the human condition. Votes: 3

I enjoy learning about different periods and people, and then taking what's universal about the human condition and seeing where it matches up. No matter where you are, certain things unite everybody. Votes: 3

We are naïve and moralistic women. We are human beings. Who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics. Votes: 3

Suffering is part and parcel of the human condition, but suffering can either embitter or ennoble us. It can ennoble us and become a spirituality of transformation when we find meaning in it. Votes: 3

Art is the lens through which I experience the world. Art is the medium to present the human condition... love, fear, bewilderment, pleasure, distaste, brotherhood and all the subtleties that we all know... Votes: 3

The business of fiction is the study of the human condition, and gender is something that many humans are obsessed with, thus making it rather difficult to ignore when studying the human condition! Votes: 3

Anybody who believes and experiences their life and doesn't have shades of gray in it doesn't live where I live and is simply not in touch with the reality of the human condition. Votes: 3

It is not necessary to teach others, to cure them or to improve them; it is only necessary to live among them, sharing the human condition and being present to them in love. Votes: 3

Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a story, which may be the human condition that most resembles levitation. Votes: 3

I would love to direct an 'Apes' movie. It would be in the spirit of where I'm going with my career - avatars played by actors to say something about the human condition. Votes: 3

I don't see myself as some kind of lone figure standing out there and doing my work in solitary splendour, but as part of the human condition and part of the continuum of writers. Votes: 3

To end the misery that has afflicted the human condition for thousands of years, you have to start with yourself and take responsibility for you inner state at any given moment. That means now Votes: 3

We never really know and the very fact that there are such words in the language as disappointment, regret, etc., is testimony to the pervasiveness and persistence of this feature of the human condition. Votes: 3

There is a sort of mystery to kitsch. When did it begin? If it is just simply another name for faking emotions, it ought to have been a permanent part of the human condition. Votes: 3

Solitude is the human condition in which I keep myself company. Loneliness comes about when I am alone without being able to split up into the two-in-one, without being able to keep myself company. Votes: 3

The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle that's going to go on forever. It's part of the human condition. Votes: 3

An occasion, catalyst, or tripwire?permits the poet to reach into herself and haul up whatever nugget of the human condition distracts her at the moment, something that can't be reached in any other way. Votes: 3

Television was the most revolutionary event of the century. Its importance was in a class with the discovery of gunpowder and the invention of the printing press, which changed the human condition for centuries afterward. Votes: 3

Folk music has always contained a concern for the human condition. And since it brings people into it from different points of view, that can help illuminate what a consensus might be to important issues. Votes: 3

There is something about the human condition. I don't think dogs are like "If only I was a poodle instead of a golden retriever, I'd be totally happy." Dogs are happy with who they are. Votes: 3

To aspiring writers, I say : Don't give up. Storytelling has been an integral part of the human condition since the beginning of time. Don't let anyone tell you your dreams don't have value. They do. Votes: 3

Not just art for art's sake, but I want to have films out there that will provoke authentic, holistic conversations about the human condition. And not provide the easy answers, but put it out there. Votes: 3

Our sufferings and weaknesses, in so far as they are personal, are of no literary interest whatsoever. They are only interesting in so far as we can see them as typical of the human condition. Votes: 3

The older I grow, the more I realize how unfit we are for relationships. We are all such antagonists. It's part of the human condition to be deeply unfaithful to constancy. I do believe that. Votes: 3

I believe in the American theatre. I believe in its power to inform about the human condition, its power to heal ... its power to uncover the truths we wrestle from uncertain and sometimes unyielding realities. Votes: 3

Anyway, madness and genius. They're the disturbed pals of the human condition. The Bonnie and Clyde, the Thelma and Louise, the baking soda and vinegar. Insanity just walks alongside the brilliant like some creepy, insistent shadow. Votes: 3

Even in its darkness, it has this picturesque element. It's something about the human condition. It's not the water itself-it's humanity's relationship to water, because that's almost a human need, that water be a positive force. Votes: 3

There's a sadness to the human condition that I think music is good for. It gives a counterpoint to the visual beauty, and adds depth to pictures that they wouldn't have if the music wasn't there. Votes: 3

I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into. Votes: 3

There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale. Votes: 3

I think music is a lifting force, I think love is the lifting force in the human condition. I think you see someone loving on their child, and it moves you, and you can't help it. Votes: 3

God in Christ has taken into Himself the brokenness of the human condition. Hence, human woundedness, brokenness, death itself are transformed from dead ends to doorways into Life. In the divinizing humanity of Christ, bruises become balm. Votes: 3

Let us remember with humility the loneliness of being man in a universe we do not understand and the vulnerability of the human condition. The animals could do very well without us, but we cannot do without them. Votes: 3

Revolutionary Road' is a fascinating study of the human condition of a fragmenting marriage and the torment that these two people put themselves through in their efforts to try and find happiness and try and stay together, actually. Votes: 3

It is the human condition to question one god after another, one appearance after another, or better, one apparition after another, always pursuing the truth of the imagination, which is not the same as the truth of appearance. Votes: 3

It is my belief that the basic knowledge that we're providing to the world will have a profound impact on the human condition and the treatments for disease and our view of our place on the biological continuum. Votes: 3

It is amazing that our souls - our eternal essences, with all their hopes and dreams and visions of an eternal world - are contained within these temporal bodies. No wonder suffering is part of the human condition.... Votes: 3

It is my belief that the basic knowledge that we're providing to the world will have a profound impact on the human condition and the treatments for disease and our view of our place on the biological continuum. Votes: 3

Religion to me is when man gets ahold of spirituality: "My god is right, yours is wrong." Religion to me is the human condition. "If you're a Muslim, you can't be a Christian." That to me is religion. Votes: 3

The way I look at a musical, you are commenting on the human condition no matter what you do. A musical may be light and frivolous, but by its very nature, it makes some kind of social comment. Votes: 3

Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will still blind him to the evidence. Let Oedipus triumph over gravity; he won't triumph over his fate. Votes: 3

The character of human life, like the character of the human condition, like the character of all life, is "ambiguity": the inseparable mixture of good and evil, the true and false, the creative and destructive forces-both individual and social. Votes: 3

I realized the universe is 15 billion years old and unspeakably complicated. I still love the teachings of Christ, but I also believe that the human condition prevents us from having any true objective knowledge and understanding of the universe. Votes: 3

I'm a Christian because Christianity names and addresses sin. It acknowledges the reality that the evil we observe in the world is also present within ourselves. It tells the truth about the human condition - that we're not okay. Votes: 3

When the human condition is finally demystified, human insecurity and nervousness will be at a maximum...for this ultimate enlightenment to be allowed, society is going to have to adhere scrupulously to the democratic principle of freedom of expression. Votes: 3

Suffering is part of the human condition, and it comes to us all. The key is how we react to it, either turning away from God in anger and bitterness or growing closer to Him in trust and confidence. Votes: 3

I think all these great comforts that come from the human condition of trying to make things easier on ourselves also have these pitfalls, where things become so easy that we forget how enjoyable building a fence can be. Votes: 3

I love the art form of songwriting. I get to carry a lot of vibes to a lot of people. My songs are all about the human condition, and people will be able to find themselves in my songs. Votes: 3

To see the human condition in the old woman, in the child, in the model on the stand, in that particular human being, and to let the hand trace it, this act of adoration is called, 'drawing from life. Votes: 3

My complaint, as an exile who once loved New York and who likes to return a half-dozen times a year, is not that it plays host to extremes of the human condition: There is grandeur in that, and necessity. Votes: 3

My work is basically an outgrowth of the anger I feel about the human condition. The aspects of it that make me angry are our capacity for cruelty and the ability people have to ignore situations they don't like. Votes: 3

The dialogue about sustainability is about a change in the human trajectory that will require us to rethink old assumptions and engage the large questions of the human condition that some presume to have been solved once and for all. Votes: 3

Television production is so insane. There's so many moving parts and flying pieces and you're desperate to make it cohesive and artistic and have something to say about the human condition that feels like it has value to its existence. Votes: 3

Anybody who dedicates himself to exploring the human condition, there's always a detached eye that's watching. In any situation, a little part of me is observing it, to see if there are any raw materials to create something else later. Votes: 3

Metaphysical rebellion is a claim, motivated by the concept of a complete unity, against the suffering of life and death and a protest against the human condition both for its incompleteness, thanks to death, and its wastefulness, thanks to evil. Votes: 3

You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to go to Beirut for that - but a foreign correspondent begins to understand poverty from a different perspective. Votes: 3

My pessimism (which, by the way, is far from absolute) originated with my despair in the lack of perfection to be found in human nature. I was attempting in my successive books to show the inevitable handicap of the human condition. Votes: 3

The misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance, and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who's confronted with it. Votes: 3

I know that the human condition will be radically changed through technical means. Much of this change will be painful, monstrous and horrible. Most mutations are disgusting failures, most experiments are failures. I accept this and I don't find it frightening. Votes: 3

I think about the possibilities for empathy, for mutual solidarity among gay men and lesbians, not simply as people who suffer under homophobia, but as people who are also extremely creative, active, and have a particular understanding of the human condition. Votes: 3

As I developed as an artist and studied art history, I noticed that all the great works were dealing with the human condition. [Art] had humor in it. It had sex in it. But it also had sorrow running through it. Votes: 3

Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet; in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying... Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition and die. Votes: 3

An exacting account of the processes by which things fall apart. The scope is breathtaking...the clarity and lyricism of the writing itself left me with repeated gasps of recognition about the human condition. I believe it will be a classic. Votes: 3

If a woman writes about herself, she's a narcissist. If a man does the same, he's describing the human condition. But people seem to evaluate your work based on how much they relate to it, so it's like, well, who's the narcissist? Votes: 3

I think the themes in my songs are very similar from the first album to the newest one. It's all about the human condition and how we are all trying to learn to live with each other and survive love and life. Votes: 3

How do you cut off the human side and just maintain being professional? So what I've done is I've incorporated that with Kojak - there's times when he allows the human condition, the human experience, to integrate into him as a professional. Votes: 3

In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it. Votes: 3

I guess what I always found funny was the human condition. There is a certain comedy and pathos to trouble and accidents. Like, when a driver has parked his car crookedly and then wonders why he has the bad luck of being hit. Votes: 3

As authors, most - most authors, our art is portraying the human condition. Trying to show you what it's like to be somebody else, trying to make you feel for somebody else. That means you have to have a high degree of empathy. Votes: 3

I like Silver Surfer because he's the most philosophical, always philosophizing about the human race and the human condition and why people are the way they are, why they don't appreciate this wonderful planet they live on... he has a nice moral tone. Votes: 3

Flowers are not symbols of power. Flowers are too brief, too frail, to elicit much hope of eternity. In truth, flowers are far removed from the human condition and from all human hope. For a moment, in that moment, flowers are simply beautiful. Votes: 3

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa. Votes: 3

Don't attach yourself to anyone who shows you the least bit of attention because you're lonely. Lonliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best thing you can do it know yourself... know what you want. Votes: 3

Redemption in Christ should give the artistically gifted not only a new orientation and a new sense of purpose, but also a new vision of reality, seeing the world through the eyes of faith, looking at the human condition through the eyes of Christ. Votes: 3

My own belief is that being gay is a regularly occurring nonpathological minority variant in the human condition, and that an appropriate analogy is left-handedness, which also, as it happens, used to be regarded as some sort of defect in a normatively right-handed humanity. Votes: 3

Many science fiction writers are literary autodidacts who focus on the genre primarily as a literature of ideas rather than as a pure art form or a tool for the introspective examination of the human condition. I'm not entirely at ease with that self-description. Votes: 3

Any man filled with empathy is capable of gaining valuable insights on the human condition through the suffering of others. You do not need to suffer to know suffering, but you need empathy first to identify and feel the suffering of others around you. Votes: 3

Improving the Internet is just one means, albeit an important one, by which to improve the human condition. It must be done with an appreciation for the civil and human rights that deserve protection - without pretending that access itself is such a right. Votes: 3

Schleiermacher, however, starts by attempting to find what he takes to be a basic element of the human condition as such, namely, that we did not invent ourselves but find ourselves born into a life and a world that precedes us in manifold ways. Votes: 3

How, then, find the courage for action? By slipping a little into unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct which holds one to the earth and dictates the relatively good and useful. By accepting the human condition more simply, and candidly, by dreading troubles less, calculating less, hoping more. Votes: 3

The desert ... may serve better as the backdrop for the problematic relationship between man and the environment. The human struggle, the successes ... both noble and foolish, are readily apparent in the desert. Symbols and relationships seem to arise that stand for the human condition itself. Votes: 3

So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer. Votes: 3

I am always talking about the human condition and about American society in particular: what it is like to be human, what makes us weep, what makes us fall and stumble and somehow rise and go on from darkness into darkness and that darkness carpeted. Votes: 3

I think that if there's one key insight science can bring to fiction, it's that fiction - the study of the human condition - needs to broaden its definition of the human condition. Because the human condition isn't immutable and doomed to remain uniform forever. Votes: 3

Almost every month, I have a day where I get stuck in the mud of me. I used to blame hormones and PMS. After I hit 50, I blamed the lack of hormones. But men get stuck, too, so it must simply be the human condition. Votes: 3

The reason why the romantic love relationship is such an intense and universally sought-after experience is that it seems to offer liberation from a deep-seated state of fear, need, lack, and incompleteness that is part of the human condition in its unredeemed and unenlightened state. Votes: 3

The writers are writing human beings, and they're writing about the human condition and how difficult it is to function in that condition. I think it's one of the charms of the show, the idea of redemption and working towards becoming better people, for everybody involved. Votes: 3

I've always been very keen on Pascal, and what I'm most keen on in Pascal is his emphasis upon human wretchedness. He has a phrase which goes something like 'Anxiety, boredom and inconstancy, that is the human condition' and I've always been very partial to that. Votes: 3

The silence of those in positions of influence in the church who know, or have a strong suspicion, that being gay is a nonpathological minority variant in the human condition drives me crazy, far crazier than I am driven by any loud-mouthed purveyor of hateful nonsense. Votes: 3

The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune has bestowed her favours, may trace their family to a more unprosperous station; and many who are now in obscurity, may look back upon the affluence and exalted rank of their ancestors. Votes: 3

I've grieved enough for his life cut short and for mine for running on for so long with so little in it. It's weakness now, but I suppose I am crying out of a general sense of loss. Maybe I am mourning for the human condition. Votes: 3

One has the responsibility to oneself, to the writer, director and the people who put up the money, to put out the best of what one has experienced and understood about the human condition as it relates to the role one has been hired to portray. Votes: 3

Being transgender, like being gay, tall, short, white, black, male, or female, is another part of the human condition that makes each individual unique, and something over which we have no control. We are who we are in the deepest recesses of our minds, hearts and identities. Votes: 3

Stories always have held conflicts and contrasts, highs and lows, life and death situations. And there can be much suffering in stories, but now we say the artist doesn’t have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand the human condition, understand the suffering. Votes: 3

It is a pathetic moment in the history of the human condition when the outside world tells us who and what we are - and we start to believe it ourselves. Then, bent over from the weight of the negativity, we start to wither on the outside... Votes: 3

I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to improve the human condition. In the most recent of these, 'The Infinite Resource,' I talk about the power of innovation to save the world. Votes: 3

I utterly reject the view that the Third World is doomed to poverty and starvation. Not only is this wrong, I think this attitude verges on the immoral, like thinking that slavery is an unalterable facet of the human condition so why bother doing anything about it? Votes: 3

TV has taken reflection out of the human condition. People didn't use to have a ready answer for everything, whether they knew something about it or not. People think they have to have an answer for everything because the guys on TV have an answer for everything. Votes: 3

Now each one of us, black or white, is a symbol. The war is out in the open and the skin color is a uniform. All the deep and basic similarities of the human condition are forgotten so that we can exaggerate the few differences that exist. Votes: 3

I don't hold with shamans, witch doctors, or psychiatrists. Shakespeare, Tolstoy, or even Dickens, understood more about the human condition than ever occurred to any of you. You overrated bunch of charlatans deal with the grammar of human problems, and the writers I've mentioned with the essence. Votes: 3

What is especially disturbing about the political left is that they seem to have no sense of the tragedy of the human condition. Instead, they tend to see the problems of the world as due to other people not being as wise or as noble as themselves. Votes: 3

Lawyers should be chosen because they can demonstrate a history rich in human traits, the ability to care, the courage to fight, the will to win, a concern for the human condition, a passion for justice and simple uncompromising honesty. These are the traits of the lawyer. Votes: 3

Ben Marcus has created an innovative and unflinching portrait of the turmoil of the human condition, providing the reader a most rare gift: something truly new. Notable American Women contains strains of Donald Antrim and Samuel Beckett but is beholden to neither; it is a brave, original book. Votes: 3

Things change all the time, and they'll probably never be the same again. It's just the natural evolution of the human condition. Things change, and whatever it is is what it is. I mean, you try to start second guessing that, you either get rich or die broke. Votes: 3

Things change all the time, and theyll probably never be the same again. Its just the natural evolution of the human condition. Things change, and whatever it is is what it is. I mean, you try to start second guessing that, you either get rich or die broke. Votes: 3

The theist can only find meaning by leaving this life for a transcendental world beyond the grave. The human world as he finds it is empty of 'ultimate purpose' and hence meaningless. Theism thus is an attempt to escape from the human condition; it is a pathetic deceit. Votes: 3

For the first time ever we are capable of removing abject poverty, illiteracy and the diseases of poverty from the human condition. The current intensification of global economic integration has demonstrated that there is enough knowledge, technology and capital to bring development to all the people of the world. Votes: 3

I think every revolutionary act is an act of love. Every song that I've written, it is because of my desire to use music as a way to empower and re-humanize people who are living in a dehumanizing setting. The song is in order to better the human condition. Votes: 3

In our rather stupid time, hunting is belittled and misunderstood, many refusing to see it for the vital vacation from the human condition that it is, or to acknowledge that the hunter does not hunt in order to kill; on the contrary, he kills in order to have hunted. Votes: 3

What is Hope?Hope is that inner dynamic that compels us to explore and pursue the expectations built into the human condition. Hope was born the day the first human beings discovered the first bridge and decided not to jump off the bridge in despair, but to cross it Votes: 3

The future remains uncertain and so it should, for it is the canvas upon which we paint our desires. Thus always the human condition faces a beautifully empty canvas. We possess only this moment in which to dedicate ourselves continuously to the sacred presence which we share and create. Votes: 3

I write about the things that happen to us all. The things that are tough, the things that matter, from a loved one fighting an illness, to losing a job, being betrayed by somebody you trust, all parts of the human condition. No one is exempt from those things. Votes: 3

I tell myself I write because I want to say something true and original about the nature of evil. That is very ambitious - to say something about the human condition that hasn't been written before. Probably I will never succeed but that is what I strive to do. Votes: 3

We kid ourselves that we're trying to be empathetic with the human condition from a distance, but I don't think that is it at all. It's stupid; it's a waste of time. But when the earth flexes its muscles, that's rather different. That's a powerful reminder of where we are. Votes: 3

It's a joyful, humbling feeling to be in different places around the planet, and people have seen shows that I'm proud of being a part of, that do have things to say about the human condition, the planet, and who we are and where we've come from, that will sustain. Votes: 3

Strangely, charity sometimes gets dismissed, as if it is ineffective, inappropriate or even somehow demeaning to the recipient. 'This isn't charity,' some donors take pains to claim, 'This is an investment.' Let us recognize charity for what it is at heart: a noble enterprise aimed at bettering the human condition. Votes: 3

Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture. Votes: 1

Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand. Votes: 1

The human condition: lost in thought. Votes: 0

The human condition itself inspires me. Votes: 0

There's no victory-condition for being human. Votes: 0

Love is the true condition of human life. Votes: 0

The basic condition of human life is happiness. Votes: 0

Every man has within himself the entire human condition Votes: 0

Every man carries the entire form of human condition. Votes: 0

Fame is not a natural condition for human beings. Votes: 0

Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human. Votes: 0

Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being Votes: 0

Folk Music Has Always Contained a Concern for the Human Condition. Votes: 0

The human condition is imperfection. And that's how it's supposed to be. Votes: 0

The first object of human association [is] the full improvement of their condition. Votes: 0

Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of human welfare. Votes: 0

This human condition and people's stories. That's what I love. The other thing is traveling. Votes: 0

The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence. Votes: 0

The shuffle only demonstrated people's fatuous belief in a political cure for a human condition. Votes: 0

The human race is in the best condition when it has the greatest degree of liberty. Votes: 0

The human condition means that we can zone out and forget what the hell we're doing. Votes: 0

The human condition ... is defined by the aspiration to always supersede oneself, which in turn requires nonconformity. Votes: 0

Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century. Votes: 0

The human condition is not perfect. We are not perfect specimens, any of us. We're not robots. Votes: 0

Most climbers aren't in fact deranged, they're just infected with a particularly virulent strain of the Human Condition. Votes: 0

Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history. Votes: 0

Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work. Votes: 0

The "human condition" is always to push forward for the better and economics is the study of that process. Votes: 0

The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that. Votes: 0

Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh. Votes: 0

Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human condition. Writers are either polluters or part of the cleanup. Votes: 0

Language helps develp life as surely as it reflects life. It is a most important part of our human condition. Votes: 0

The underlying sickness of human life is an unwillingness to look with open eyes at the condition of the world. Votes: 0

My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind, Votes: 0

In the Bible poverty is a scandalous condition inimical to human dignity and therefore contrary to the will of God. Votes: 0

The proper condition of the human is not bovine placidity... the highest degree of tension that can be creatively borne. Votes: 0

The operative condition on this particular planet, the central mode which human beings follow, is fear. We are taught to fear. Votes: 0

Considering the unforeseen events of this world, we should be taught that no human condition should inspire men with absolute despair. Votes: 0

The true human condition in its most perfect form has no secrets. It does not hide, but exists in clear love. Votes: 0

Nature, and the natural human condition, generates tremendous suffering. We have the means to overcome that, and we should deploy it. Votes: 0

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune. Votes: 0

Innovation is a good thing. The human condition - put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes - is improving because of innovation. Votes: 0

... there is a whole hell of a lot of knowledge about the (expletive removed) human condition that we are not ready for. Votes: 0

Our human condition makes us tend to share only the best of ourselves, because we are always searching for love and approval Votes: 0

With compassion, we see benevolently our own human condition and the condition of our fellow beings. We drop prejudice. We withhold judgment. Votes: 0

Man truly achieves his full human condition when he produces without being compelled by the physical necessity of selling himself as a commodity. Votes: 0

The deepest cry of the human heart is to be loved without condition, no matter what. The gospel of grace announces that you are. Votes: 0

Reviews condition people. At the end of the day, a lot of human minds are malleable. They can be easily shaped with strong words. Votes: 0

I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition. Votes: 0

I think what it is a condition of human - of love. How important that is and integral that is too everybody even a ghost. Votes: 0

There is no way to explain enlightenment. It is just a word to indicate something beyond, something very, very far beyond the normal human condition. Votes: 0

All men are in need of help and depend on one another. Human solidarity is the necessary condition for the unfolding of any one individual. Votes: 0

The human condition is not served by our technical ability to transmit a televised image around the world - if that image is totally inane. Votes: 0

In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny. Votes: 0

The truth, of course, is that the only necessary and sufficient condition for human beings to murder one another is the simple fact of being human. Votes: 0

Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world as we see today. Votes: 0

It's such a human condition, whether you're a great track star or a great knitting person or you paint watercolors - someone knows who you are. Votes: 0

Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world as we see today. Votes: 0

We represent the true human condition, the one permanent victory over cruelty and chaos. . . . Our true home is the imagination, and our kingdom is the wide-open world. Votes: 0

Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it allows me to survive, and better than that, to thrive with passion, compassion, and style. Votes: 0

The Human Condition being, basically, that we’re alive and have access to beauty, can even erratically create it, but will someday be dead and will not. Votes: 0

Whenever other worlds invite us, whenever we are balancing on the boundaries of our limited human condition, that's where life starts, that's where you start feeling yourself living. Votes: 0

Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human. Votes: 0

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic. Votes: 0

I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in hand. It's our condition as human beings. Votes: 0

There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions. Votes: 0

No matter whether you are black or white, man or woman, gay or straight, Christian, Muslim, or Jew, we all share the same emotions, the same human condition. Votes: 0

When a show becomes a mega hit internationally, you lose a lot of privacy, you become a hider. It's not a human condition we are exposed to very often. Votes: 0

I always used to say when I was on television that I prefer to be on stage and when on stage I prefer to do television. Typical human condition. Votes: 0

I was born human. But this was an accident of fate - a condition merely of time and place. I believe it's something we have the power to change. Votes: 0

A day came when I should have died,and after than nothing seemed very important, so I stayed as I am, without regret separated from the normal human condition. Votes: 0

A day came when I should have died, and after that nothing seemed very important. So I have stayed as I am, without regret, separated from the normal human condition. Votes: 0

The human condition is such that we can only stomach so much imagination. We need for things to be labeled either fiction or nonfiction. There is no section in between. Votes: 0

The human condition is better improved by altering detrimental circumstances and personal perspectives than by trying to alter personal outlooks, while ignoring the very circumstances that serve to nourish them Votes: 0

It's ridiculous to live 100 years and only be able to remember 30 million bytes. You know, less than a compact disc. The human condition is really becoming more obsolete every minute. Votes: 0

Real answers need to be found in dialogue and interaction and, yes, our shared human condition. This means being open to one another instead of simply fighting to maintain a prescribed position. Votes: 0

I love studying folklore and legends. The stories that people passed down for a thousand years without any sort of marketing support are obviously saying something appealing about the basic human condition. Votes: 0

Real answers need to be found in dialogue and interaction and, yes, our shared human condition. This means being open to one another instead of simply fighting to maintain a prescribed position. Votes: 0

that's exactly the good thing about the Injun life--you don't have to stop and think about whether or not you're 'happy'--which in my opinionis a highly overrated human condition invented by white folks Votes: 0

It's (the lack of communication between the people in his paintings, ed.) probably a reflection of my own, if I may say, loneliness. I don't know. It could be the whole human condition. Votes: 0

Julian is bluff and sturdy, royal; he possesses a gracefully muscular, equine beauty so natural it suggests that beauty itself is a fundamental human condition and not a mutation in the general design. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Throughout history we humans have struggled to find meaning in the awesome contradiction of our human condition. Neither philosophy, nor psychology nor biology has, until now, been able to provide the truthful explanation. Votes: 0

What freedom does a starving man have?" The answer is that starvation is a tragic human condition- perhaps more tragic than loss of freedom. That does not prevent these from being two different things. Votes: 0

If a man has lived in a tradition which tells him that nothing can be done about his human condition, to believe that progress is possible may well be the greatest revolution of all. Votes: 0

A tattoo is a true poetic creation, and is always more than meets the eye. As a tattoo is grounded on living skin, so its essence emotes a poignancy unique to the mortal human condition. Votes: 0