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“The functionaries of our political organizations and trade unions are corrupted - or rather tend to be corrupted - by the conditions of capitalism and betray a tendency to become bureaucrats, i.e., privileged persons divorced from the people and standing above the people.”

People Persons Political Conditions Capitalism Standing Organization Trade Unions Tendencies Betray Privileged Divorced Bureaucrats Trade Unions

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“I think evil is our collective shadow. Each one of us has a tendency for the diabolical. If I put you in inhumane conditions, if you're not educated, if you're extremely poor, if you're humiliated, then as a child if you suffer abuse, then you will manifest even when you grow up.”

Ifs Thinking Children Suffering Evil Grows Poor Growing Up Conditions Shadow Abuse Tendencies Educated Collectives Manifest Humiliated Diabolical Inhumane

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Some sort of belief in all-powerful supernatural beings is common, if not universal. A tendency to obey authority, perhaps especially in children, a tendency to believe what you're told, a tendency to fear your own death, a tendency to wish to see your loved ones who have died, to wish to see them again, a wish to understand where you came from, where the world came from, all these psychological predispositions, under the right cultural conditions, tend to lead to people believing in things for which there is no evidence.”

People Ifs World Believe Children Belief Wish Powerful Common Conditions Authority Evidence Universal Died Tendencies Psychological Loved Ones Supernatural Beings

Author:Richard Dawkins

“Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.”

People Ifs Use Conditions Tendencies These Days Suspects Homosexuality Homosexual Grammar

Book:Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words

Source: Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words

“The Negro cannot stand the present reactionary tendencies and unreasoning drawing of the color line indefinitely without discouragement and retrogression. And the condition of the Negro is ever the cause for further discrimination.”

Causes Lines Conditions Color Drawing Discrimination Tendencies Discouragement Reactionaries

Book:Three African-American Classics: Up from Slavery, The Souls of Black Folk and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Source: Three African-American Classics: Up from Slavery, The Souls of Black Folk and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

“The vulgar charge that the tendency of democracies is to leveling, meaning to drag all down to the level of the lowest, is singularly untrue; its real tendency being to elevate the depressed to a condition not unworthy of their manhood.”

Real Levels Democracy Conditions Tendencies Drag Lowest Manhood Vulgar Unworthy Untrue

Author:James F. Cooper

“The essential tendency of life is toward happiness . . . . Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.”

Men Life Is Conditions Essentials Optimism Tendencies Reasonable Reasonable Man

Author:Phillips Brooks

“I can still function when I don't have that balance I crave. I had a tendency to be precious about acting, thinking of it as something mercurial that required all the right conditions, but now I know that even if I don't get any sleep, I can still work, I can power through. The stars don't have to be perfectly aligned for me to do a good job.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Stills I Can Jobs Stars Sleep Acting Conditions Balance Function Tendencies Good Job Crave

Author:Laura Regan

“Now since man is naturally inclined to avoid pain - and since labor is pain in itself - it follows that men will resort to plunder whenever plunder is easier than work. History shows this quite clearly. And under these conditions, neither religion nor morality can stop it. When, then, does plunder stop? It stops when it becomes more painful and more dangerous than labor. It is evident, then, that the proper purpose of law is to use the power of its collective force to stop this fatal tendency to plunder instead of to work. All the measures of the law should protect property and punish plunder.”

Men Should Doe Use Shows Pain Law Purpose Force History Conditions Dangerous Morality Easier Protect Labor Property Painful Tendencies Collectives Evident Resorts Plunder

Author:Frederic Bastiat

“A being connected with other beings cannot perform his own activities without taking the activities of others into account. For they are the indispensable conditions of the realization of his tendencies. When he moves he stirs them and reciprocally.”

Moving Conditions Activity Accounts Connected Tendencies Realization Indispensable

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education