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“The human condition ... is defined by the aspiration to always supersede oneself, which in turn requires nonconformity.”

Humans Humanity Turns Conditions Oneself Defined Aspiration Human Condition Nonconformity

Author:Pablo Antonio Cuadra

“Plato defined a slave as one who accepts from another the purposes which control his conduct. This condition obtains even where there is no slavery in the legal sense. It is found wherever men are engaged in activity which is socially serviceable, but whose service they do not understand and have no personal interest in.”

Men Purpose Found Interest Accepting Conditions Activity Slavery Slave Defined Engaged Plato Personal Interest

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“Daily life is a comprimised blend of posturing for the sake of role-playing and of varying degrees of self-revelation. Under stressful conditions even the "true" self cannot be precisely defined, as Erving Goffman observes. ...Little wonder that the identity crisis is a major source of modern neuroticism, and that the urban middle class aches for a return to a simpler existence.”

“Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition, and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery. Equality of rights is a peculiar feature of democracies. These rights are properly divided into civil and political, though even these definitions are not to be taken as absolute, or as literally exact.”

“Each state pursues its own interest's, however defined, in ways it judges best. Force is a means of achieving the external ends of states because there exists no consistent, reliable process of reconciling the conflicts of interest that inevitably arise among similar units in a condition of anarchy.”

Way Mean Ends States Force Process Interest Achieve Conditions Judging Conflict Arise Pursue Defined Consistent Anarchy Units Conflict Of Interest

Book:Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis

Source: Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis

“Artificial flight may be defined as that form of aviation in which a man flies at will in any direction by means of an apparatus attached to his body, the use of which requires personal skill. Artificial flight by a single individual is the proper beginning for all species of artificial flight, as the necessary conditions can most easily be fulfilled when man flies individually.”

Men May Mean Use Body Form Individual Conditions Skills Species Flight Defined Aviation Artificial Fulfilled

Author:Otto Lilienthal

“A woman without a man -- a condition of 'manlessness' -- is defined as alone. But a single mother is less alone than the average housewife.”

Men Mother Conditions Average Defined Housewife Single Mother

Author:Barbara Kingsolver

“Barbarisation may be defined as a cultural process whereby an attained condition of high value is gradually overrun and supersededby elements of lower quality.”

May Values Process Quality Conditions Elements Defined Decay

Author:Johan Huizinga

“When one of us dies of cancer, loses her mind, or commits suicide, we must not blame her for her inability to survive an ongoing political mechanism bent on the destruction of that human being. Sanity remains defined simply by the ability to cope with insane conditions.”

Source: Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma