Quotes About State

Capitalist development modifies essentially the nature of the State, widening its sphere of action, constantly imposing on it new functions (especially those affecting economic life), making more and more necessary its intervention and control in society.

An individual who drinks himself into a state of stuporous sickness runs the risk of succumbing to accidental death.

Our history marks us. Sometimes I think our state's beginning years haunt everything: the city's attempts to graft progressive ideas onto its racist origins, the fact that we can't undo history but are forced to either confront or repeat it.

Like every state in our country, Minnesota began with blood dispossession and enslavement. Officers in the U.S. Army bought and sold enslaved people

Je voudrais voir un peu Louis XIV avec un assuré social!...Il verrait si l'Etat c'est lui !..

We predicate of the thing what lies in the method of representing it. Impressed by the possibility of a comparison, we think we are perceiving a state of affairs of the highest generality.

My grail chalice has been filled with an elixir that is perhaps headier than the wine of fact-it is filled with swirling, essential uncertainty and the difficult, mature task of dwelling in such a state.

And you have to understand this, that a prince, especially a new one, cannot observe all those things for which men are esteemed, being often forced, in order to maintain the state, to act contrary to faith, friendship, humanity, and religion. " The Prince, XVIII, 5

Active happiness is not a common state. Active unhappiness is better than dull days. Katherine was seldom in an intermediate stage.

Her mind had snapped. It was some kind of hallucination caused by the weather, by her anxiety, by the state of the world—

Article 9 of Bhutan's constitution says: "The State shall strive to promote those circumstances that will enable the successful pursuit of Gross National Happiness.

We normally think of the expressions on our face as the reflection of an inner state. I feel happy, so I smile. I feel sad, so I frown. Emotion goes inside-out. Emotional contagion, though, suggests that the opposite is also true. If I can make you smile, I can make you happy. If I can make you frown, I can make you sad. Emotion, in this sense, goes outside-in.

That's the consequence of not defaulting to truth. If you don't begin in a state of trust, you can't have meaningful social encounters.

Where the state has undertaken to impose a prior authorisation procedure upon a particular activity, a failure so to act which resulted in pollution violating international law would occasion the responsibility of the state.

Without territory a legal person cannot be a state.

State problems should involve state solutions.

Success is never a place or position but a new state of self-realization.

It is the storytellers task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.

My son's an idiot. His teacher asked him to spell Mississippi. He asked which one? The river or the state?

No one is more important to the future of our state than our teachers.

C]apitalist trade and industry cannot thrive without access to military and political power. State interventions have always been critical to its advancement.

after two thousand years we've established a state so as to have someone to steal from.

Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime.

Le bonheur n'est pas une chose; c'est une pensée. Ce n'est pas un fait; c'est une invention. Ce n'est pas un état; c'est une action. Disons le mot: le bonheur est création.[...] C'est une praxis, disait- Aristote, et point une poiésis.