State Quotes - page 8

This brings us to Anarchism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and that the State should be abolished. (Benjamin Tucker)
The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one or the other of them are, respectively, State Socialism and Anarchism. View quote
Benjamin Tucker
Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then. View quote
John Wooden
To permit surveillance to take root on the Internet would mean subjecting virtually all forms of human interaction, planning, and even thought itself to comprehensive state examination. View quote
Glenn Greenwald
A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins. View quote
Lord Byron
You cannot have democratic accountability in anything bigger than a nation state. View quote
Václav Klaus
Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned. View quote
Paul Tillich
We can also reassure our Palestinian partners that we understand the importance of territorial contiguity in the West Bank for a viable Palestinian state ... View quote
Ariel Sharon
As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State 'What does it matter to me' the State may be given up for lost. View quote
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves. View quote
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. (William Shakespeare)
Diplomacy: Lying in state. View quote
Oliver Herford
It is always thus, impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, that we make our irrevocable decisions. View quote
Marcel Proust
...a state is not the same thing as a society, although the Greeks and Romans thought it was. A state is an organization of power on a territorial basis. View quote
Carroll Quigley
I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him, either. View quote
Sophocles
To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but is bitter and unforgettable. View quote
Elia Kazan
Many years before I had left a beautiful country and a rich nation and I returned to that country six years later to find it fundamentally changed and in a state of upheaval, and in great spiritual and material need. View quote
Fritz Sauckel
If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state. View quote
Cate Blanchett
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self. View quote
Guru Nanak Dev
Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it. (Aristotle)
The basis of a democratic state is liberty. View quote
Aristotle
Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions. View quote
Aristotle
He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disappear was, if possible, even firmer than his sister's. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful reflection until the tower clock struck three in the morning. He still saw that outside the window everything was beginning to grow light. Then, without his consent, his head sank down to the floor, and from his nostrils streamed his last weak breath. View quote
Franz Kafka
Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions. View quote
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel