State Quotes

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws. (Tacitus)
Fears are nothing more than a state of mind. View quote
Napoleon Hill
Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected. View quote
George Soros
While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
A functioning police state needs no police. View quote
William S. Burroughs
All oppression creates a state of war. View quote
Simone de Beauvoir
Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation. View quote
Samuel Richardson
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be. View quote
Anton Chekhov
Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. View quote
Noam Chomsky
Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture. (Juan Ramón Jiménez)
The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else. View quote
Frédéric Bastiat
I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. ... These two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death. View quote
George Carlin
Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning. View quote
Bruce Lee
When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people. View quote
Edmund Burke
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. View quote
H. H. Asquith
You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state. View quote
Benito Mussolini
When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of Hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay. View quote
Brian Aldiss
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior. View quote
Mary McCarthy
The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone. (James Baldwin)
Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is: I should not be allowed to travel because I have struggled for years for the independence of the colonial peoples of Africa. View quote
Paul Robeson
Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and keep out of debt. It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes
Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace. View quote
Václav Havel
Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA - ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State. View quote
Heinrich Himmler