Social Condition Quotes

Nature has given to our black brethren talents equal to those of any other color of men; and that the appearance of the want of them is owing merely to the degraded condition of their existence.

Too much is made for us; too much is given to us - even those of us who are underprivileged. The poverty is given to us. The difficulties are given to us.

If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.

... miserable and almost friendless objects are ushered upon the stage of life, inheriting those vices, which idleness, and the bad example of their parents naturally produce.

It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.

When I was young, poverty was so common that it didn’t have a name.

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.

Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

We do not need to minimize the poverty of the ghetto or the suffering inflicted by whites on blacks in order to see that the increasingly dangerous and unpredictable conditions of middle-class life have given rise to similar strategies for survival. Indeed the attraction of black culture for disaffected whites suggests that black culture now speaks to a general condition.

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.

Under the old philosophy which had governed the high Middle Ages things had been everywhere towards a condition of Society in which property was well distributed throughout the community, and thus the family rendered independent.

Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

Sometimes one feels that it would be merciful to tear down these houses, for they must often dream.

Popular privileges are consistent with a state of society in which there is great inequality of position. Democratic rights, on the contrary, demand that there should be equality of condition as the fundamental basis of the society they regulate.

Not everyone can be an orphan.

The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist.

In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could not recover it, was very nebulous.

The country is not in good condition.

Today, the general masses in this society are in this political-social condition that really encourages people to become rich and become a star and be unique.

The form of government and the condition of society must always correspond. Social equality is therefore a postulate of pure democracy.

The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed on for their future residence.

Everyone is born into a certain era. I wouldn't want to see anyone faced with the circumstances that prevailed at the time, when there were few or no alternatives.

You need to look at inequality as a typical condition of modern society.

The more I think on the present condition of woman, the more am I oppressed with the reality of their degradation.