“Most homeless kids are on the streets because they have been forced by circumstances that cause them to think that they are safer there than in any home they once knew.” ThinkingHas BeensHomeKidsCausesStreetsYouthCircumstancesHomelessHomelessness Author:Jewel
“Hitler appeared, a man with limited intellectual abilities and unfit for any useful work, bursting with envy and bitterness against all whom circumstance and nature had favored over him....In his desperate ambition for power he discovered that his speeches, confused and pervaded with hate as they were, received wild acclaim by those whose situation and orientation resembled his own. He picked up this human flotsam on the streets and in the taverns and organized them around himself. This is the way he launched his political career.” MenWayHumansPoliticalHateAbilitySituationCareersStreetsCircumstancesSpeechAmbitionIntellectualEnvyConfusedOrganizedDesperateBitternessOrientationBurstingAcclaimTavernsFlotsam Author:Albert Einstein
“Poverty demoralizes. A man in debt is so far a slave; and Wall-street thinks it easy for a millionaire to be a man of his word, aman of honor, but, that, in failing circumstances, no man can be relied on to keep his integrity.” ThinkingMenEasyPovertyFailingStreetsWallHonorCircumstancesIntegritySlaveDebtBe A ManMillionaire Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It's cheap, and you have a thinking, breathing bomb that can adjust to circumstances and cross the street to hit another target if the original one doesn't look good.” IfsThinkingLooksStreetsCircumstancesCrossesOriginalsBreathingBombsTarget Author:Mia Bloom
“In an interesting inversion of status, the reigning breed in the dog park these days is the really-oddball-unidentifiable-mixed-breed-mutt-found-wandering-the-street or its equivalent. The stranger the mutt the better; the more peculiar the circumstance of it coming into your life, the better.” FoundInterestingStreetsDogCircumstancesStrangerWanderThese DaysParksPeculiarOddballsMuttsInversions Author:Susan Orlean
“Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.” IfsThinkingMenWorldYearsArtStillsRealHardFiveStreetsCrimeCircumstancesDrugTenDiseaseMy FamilyTwentiesMovedChinaRevengeMartial ArtsDevotedDealerTwenty FiveMonasteriesDrug DealersBeing BadWiping Out Author:Neal Stephenson