“After reading The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander's stunning work of scholarship, one gains the terrible realization that, for people of color, the American criminal justice system resembles the Soviet Union's gulag—the latter punished ideas, the former punishes a condition.” PeopleIdeasReadingJusticeConditionsColorTerribleGainsUnionsCriminalsRealizationFormerLatterSovietSoviet UnionScholarshipCrowJustice SystemStunningCriminal JusticeJim CrowCriminal Justice SystemGulags Author:David Levering Lewis
“These hurts I have are my fault but I'm sure gonna learn from it and hopefully anyone reading this will too. The lesson: stay aware on a bicycle and look up the road in front of you at all times to make sure you can deal with what's coming and the condition of the road you're gonna be rolling down!” LooksReadingHurtDealsConditionsFrontsLessonsFaultsAll TimeHopefullyLook UpRollingBicycle Author:Mike Watt
“I guess I'm interested in the behind-the-surface feelings of the human condition, in my own way. I was always struck by the gap - at least in the books I was reading - between what people tell stories about and what I actually feel. I started thinking about a gap between fantasy and reality.” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsHumansBookStoriesFeelingsRealityReadingMy OwnBehindsFantasyConditionsSurfaceGapsHuman ConditionFantasy And Reality Author:Signe Baumane
“A common defense among obituary-fanciers such as myself is that the obit is not about death at all. It is about life. This is true since an article about the condition of deadness would make for turgid reading at best.” ReadingCommonConditionsDefenseArticlesObituaryCommon Defense Author:Tom Rachman
“A Crime So Monstrous is a remarkably brave and unflinching piece of reportage and storytelling. Ben Skinner bears witness, sharing stories so unsettling, so neglected, so chilling they will leave you shaking with anger. This should be required reading for policy makers around the world - and, for that matter, anyone concerned about the human condition.” WorldShouldHumansMatterStoriesReadingPiecesConditionsCrimePolicyBearsConcernedBraveStorytellingAround The WorldWitnessMakersHuman ConditionChillNeglectedShakingMonstrousPolicy MakersSkinnerSharing Stories Author:Alex Kotlowitz
“Writing [for the novelist] is not an activity, but a condition. That is why one simply can't resume the work when one has a job and a free half-day. Reading is the conveyance of this condition.” WritingJobsReadingHalfConditionsActivityNovelistsResumesHalf Days Author:Robert Musil
“The present age has witnessed an extraordinary increase of a thinking public, by the facilities afforded to the diffusion of reading; the former happy resignation to ignorance begins to make way for a state of half-enlightenment, and few persons are willing to remain in the condition in which their birth has placed then.” ThinkingWayPersonsStatesAgeReadingHalfConditionsIgnoranceWillingBirthEnlightenmentIncreaseExtraordinaryFormerFacilityResignationDiffusion Book:The Works of Frederick Schiller: Top Classic of German Source: The Works of Frederick Schiller: Top Classic of German
“Because my graduate academic training at law school was not one that included most of the intellectual traditions I find useful for understanding the conditions and problems that most concern me - anti-colonial theories, Foucault, critical disability studies, prison studies and the like are rarely seen in standard US Law School curricula, where students are still fighting on many campuses to get a single class on race or poverty offered - I developed most of my thinking about these topics through activist reading groups and collaborative writing projects with other activist scholars.” ThinkingWritingStillsProblemSchoolLawFightingReadingUnderstandingRaceClassPovertyStudyGroupsConditionsStudentsTheoryProjectsIntellectualTrainingStandardsConcernTraditionPrisonCriticalActivistDisabilityGraduatesAcademicScholarTopicsCampusLaw SchoolFighting On Author:Dean Spade
“In an extensive reading of recent books by psychologists, psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, and inspirationalists, I have discovered that they all suffer from one or more of these expression-complexes: italicizing, capitalizing, exclamation-pointing, multiple-interrogating, and itemizing. These are all forms of what the psychos themselves would call, if they faced their condition frankly, Rhetorical-Over-Compensation.” IfsBookFormSufferingReadingPsychologyConditionsExpressionComplexesMultiplePointingCompensationPsychiatristPsychologistPsychoRhetoricalExclamationExtensive Reading Author:James Thurber
“Reading aloud is the best advertisement because it works. It allows a child to sample the delights of reading and conditions him to believe that reading is a pleasureful experience, not a painful or boring one.” BelieveChildrenReadingConditionsPainfulDelightBoringWorking ItAdvertisementsSampleReading Aloud Author:Jim Trelease
“Of course, if one's reading Kierkegaard for personal interest that's fine - but it's sloppy scholarship just to cherry pick what suits one from a particular author, whether it's Kierkegaard, Heidegger, or whoever. Nevertheless, it does seem to me that even the more religious parts of the authorship can offer significant insights into the meaning of the human condition to those who can't then say that, e.g., they believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God and their personal Saviour.” IfsBelieveHumansDoeSeemsCoursesReadingJesusInterestChristReligiousConditionsParticularSonFineOffersPicksJesus ChristInsightSignificantSuitsHuman ConditionNeverthelessScholarshipSaviourCherriesAuthorshipSloppyPersonal InterestHeidegger Author:George Pattison
“If religion and churches are truly threats to our liberties, how did those liberties survive, and in such healthy condition, all those years of classroom prayer and Bible-reading?” IfsYearsChristianReadingChurchReligiousPrayerLibertyConditionsHealthyThreatClassroomBible Reading Author:William Murchison