Quotes About State

It also meant that no state could legislate

But there was a barb, too. The 'Lacedaemonians'—the Spartans—were the only Greeks who had refused to join Philip's 'Common State

that trumps any residual loyalty that some may have felt towards the resurgent Greek-speaking state of Byzantium.

res publica, literally 'the thing belonging to the people'

centroamericanos. Pero como el dichoso Estado de bienestar no llega, las causas que impulsan la migración siguen operando. La solución: reprimir y detener con la fuerza militar los flujos migratorios extranjeros. Éste fue el resultado de la consigna que proclama que la mejor política exterior es la interior. Y si la política interior es mala, tendremos la peor política exterior

El futuro del país es brumoso y la oscuridad se expande en los campos de la cultura y la ciencia. La desmodernidad se cuela por todos los poros del Estado.

el debilitamiento del Estado es compensado con el fortalecimiento del autoritarismo presidencial.

I think the state of the NFL has a very positive outlook.

secularism cannot escape religion, since religion is the reason the secular state exists at all.

Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.

Anxiety is the state of man…when he confronts his freedom…Whenever possibility is visualized by an individual, anxiety is potentially present in the same experience…Such possibilities, like roads ahead which cannot be known since one has not yet traversed and experienced them, involve anxiety…To Kierkegaard, the more possibility…an individual has, the more potential anxiety he has at the same time.

And I found myself falling off asleep, because in that half-awake state, one's sensibilities are blunted and happiness can still hover nearby...

J'ignore ce que c'est une dépression nerveuse, parce que pour moi c'est l'état normal de l'humanité." - Vingt questions à Romain Gary - L'affaire homme

With the need for the self in the time of another / I left my seaport grim and dear / knowing good work could be made / in the state governed by both Hope and Despair.

State intervention to try and control incidents of widow immolation begins during the time of the Sultans and the Mughals.

Nationalism meant differentiating between the nation and the state, and it was clear that no government could take upon itself the rights of a nation.

As the President reviewed the state of the union and unveiled his second-term agenda, he fell short of adequately explaining how he intends to set America back on the course of fiscal responsibility and secure the fiscal health of the nation.

When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we in essence accept that the state owns our bodies.

The libertarian view that the state has no responsibility to care for and empower the poor flies in the face of clear biblical teaching.

Both biblical principles and historical experience suggest that one important thing we need is the right kind of state intervention to correct the injustice in today's market economies.

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

Ein wohlgeordneter Staat braucht keine großen Männer und hat keinen Raum für sie.

Bluntly: the United States will need to accept some further loss of sovereignty in exchange for more just and effective mechanisms for solving collective global problems. No state can combat disease, climate change, or international terrorist organizations on its own--but any state can play a destructive and destabilizing role on its own.

the military has become a substitute welfare state for a large swath of small-town America. In a sense, the military—despite its reputation for political conservatism—has become the last outpost of Big Government paternalism in the United States. In