#conditions

In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#crowded #difficult #establish #had #houses

One of the gaps in our international development efforts is the provision of global public goods - that is, goods or conditions we need that no individual or country can secure on their own, such as halting global warming, financial stability and peace and security. ↗

— Anna Lindh

#country #development #efforts #financial #financial stability

Of mediumship there are many grades, one of the simplest forms being the capacity to receive an impression or automatic writing, under peaceful conditions, in an ordinary state; but the whole subject is too large to be treated here. ↗

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

#being #capacity #conditions #forms #grades

The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#average #average man #conceptions #conditions #desire

It is unacceptable that immigrants, including children, are shackled and detained in deplorable conditions. And it is unacceptable that already this year immigrants have died by the dozens in the California desert or in other parts of the Southwest. ↗

— Roger Mahony

#california #children #conditions #deplorable #desert

Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#good #nonviolence #permit #policy

I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#adverse conditions #conditions #curtain #i #like

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. ↗

— Karl Marx

#creature #heart #heartless #opium #oppressed

Our armed forces will fight for peace in Iraq, a peace built on more secure foundations than are found today in the Middle East. Even more important, they will fight for two human conditions of even greater value than peace: liberty and justice. ↗

— John McCain

#armed forces #built #conditions #east #even

Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equality for all nations that live in it. ↗

— Slobodan Milosevic

#community #conditions #equality #full #live