State Quotes - page 4

If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it. (Jean Cocteau)
The actual state of our knowledge is always provisional and... there must be, beyond what is actually known, immense new regions to discover. View quote
Louis de Broglie
Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it. View quote
Isaac Newton
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world. View quote
John Locke
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. View quote
Albert Einstein
It is time to return to those core values, time to get back to basics: to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family, and not shuffling it off on other people and the state. View quote
John Major
Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land. View quote
Aldo Leopold
Jordan is the only Arab state that has provided citizenship to Palestinian refugees and integrated them. But something has to be done about the Palestinians living in refugee camps in Syria and Lebanon. View quote
Walter Russell Mead
Nothing is more misleading to the youth of a nation than to state the outcome immediately after the beginning as if nothing could have taken place in between. View quote
Gustav Stresemann
The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong for us to pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men. View quote
Alva Myrdal
The key players are now all in place in Washington and in state governments across America to officially label carbon dioxide as a pollutant and enact laws that tax us citizens for our carbon footprints. (John Coleman)
We believe that human rights transcend boundaries and must prevail over state sovereignty. View quote
Jose Ramos-Horta
Today we stand on a bridge leading from the territorial state to the world community. Politically, we are still governed by the concept of the territorial state; economically and technically, we live under the auspices of worldwide communications and worldwide markets. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
The theoretically unrestricted right to develop power, to wage war against other states, is antisocial and is doubly dangerous, because the state as a mass entity represents a low moral and intellectual level. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
Hand in hand with nationalist economic isolationism, militarism struggles to maintain the sovereign state against the forward march of internationalism. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
No state is free from militarism, which is inherent in the very concept of the sovereign state. There are merely differences of degree in the militarism of states. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
Moreover, if the territorial state is to continue as the last word in the development of society, then war is inevitable. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
Let us assume that the ideal were reached; let us imagine a state of international life in which the danger of war no longer exists. Then no one would dare to demand a penny for obviously completely superfluous armaments. View quote
Ludwig Quidde
Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing. View quote
José Martí
We need the nation of equal citizenship. We need a nation that fights corruption, a nation, a state where law rules, a nation where those who abuse their authority are questioned. We want to retrieve our nation, and we want to become citizens in a new world. View quote
Tawakkol Karman
Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows only that he has passed into it and lives beyond us, in a condition not ours. (John Updike)
After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of the these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations. View quote
David Sedaris
The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries. View quote
James Madison
It is the story-teller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval. View quote
Graham Greene
If Singapore is a nanny state, then I am proud to have fostered one. View quote
Lee Kuan Yew