State Quotes - page 6

I have here in my hand a list of 205 that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department. (Joseph McCarthy)
JUSTICE, n. A commodity which is a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright. View quote
Ben Jonson
Some folks like to get awayTake a holiday from the neighborhoodHop a flight to Miami BeachOr to HollywoodBut I'm talking a GreyhoundOn the Hudson River LineI'm in a New York state of mind. View quote
Billy Joel
There is no state with a democracy except Libya on the whole planet. View quote
Muammar Gaddafi
If the state is strong, it crushes us. If it is weak, we perish. View quote
Paul Valéry
No state more extensive than the minimal state can be justified. View quote
Robert Nozick
I believe, like you, that civilization is a natural and inevitable consequence, whether good or evil I am not prepared to state. View quote
Robert E. Howard
War is the normal state of the people. View quote
Benito Mussolini
If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.' View quote
Jeff Foxworthy
Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State. (Cardinal Richelieu)
Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock. View quote
James Baldwin
The natural tendency of the state is inflation. View quote
Murray Rothbard
It is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they have written against one in public. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilization. View quote
Oscar Wilde
My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is generally known, not only in formal logical, mathematical terms, but also intuitively, in images, feelings, poetic usage of language, etc. View quote
David Bohm
Students often approached me about state-paid tuition while I was out campaigning. After I explained to them that if the state pays their tuition now, they will pay higher taxes to pay other people's tuition for the rest of their lives, most of them ended up agreeing with me. View quote
Jesse Ventura
I myself was to experience how easily one is taken in by a lying and censored press and radio in a totalitarian state. View quote
William L. Shirer
Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings but those who are in a state of mediocrity are best flattered upon their beauty, or at least their graces for every woman who is not absolutely ugly, thinks herself handsome. View quote
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown. View quote
John Buchan
In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment. (E. L. Doctorow)
All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State. View quote
Albert Camus
For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
The state is not "abolished,” it withers away. View quote
Friedrich Engels
Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, and justice. View quote
Baruch Spinoza