Quotes About State

I like Iowa. I know Iowa. I've spent some time in Iowa. Good people in Iowa. It's a great state.

The amount of start-ups that are being generated from Israel, and it's such a small state, they're looking for markets to really take those businesses in scale. We really, I think, have done a good job of indicating how Iowa is a good place for that.

Notes on the State of Virginia

The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.

The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

O que sempre tem feito do Estado um inferno na terra tem sido precisamente procurar o homem fazer dele o seu paraíso.

Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.

State I call it where all drink poison, the good and the wicked; state, where all lose themselves, the good and the wicked; state, where the slow suicide of all is called life.

If you invest all your energy in economics, world commerce, parliamentarianism, military engagements, power and power politics, -if you take the quantum of intelligence, seriousness, will, and self-overcoming that you embody and expend it all in this one direction, there there won't be any left for the other direction. Culture and the state - let us be honest with ourselves - these are adversaries.

The state lieth in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it saith it lieth; and whatever it hath it hath stolen.

nothing stands so much in the way of the production and propagation of the great philosopher by nature as does the bad philosopher who works for the state.

Many too many are born: for the superfluous ones was the state devised!

Culture and the state — one should not deceive oneself over this — are antagonists: the ?cultural state? is merely a modern idea. The one lives off the other, the one thrives at the expense of the other. All great cultural epochs are epochs of political decline: that which is great in the cultural sense has been unpolitical, even anti-political.

The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task.

One has deprived becoming of its innocence if being in this or that state is traced back to will, to intentions, to accountable acts: the doctrine of will has been invented essentially for the purpose of punishment, that is of finding guilty.

If the bringing of children into the world is today an economic burden, it is because the social system is inadequate; and not because God's law is wrong. Therefore the State should remove the causes of that burden. The human must not be limited and controlled to fit the economic, but the economic must be expanded to fit the human.

If it be true that the world has lost its respect for authority, it is only because it lost it first in the home. By a peculiar paradox, as the home loses its authority, the authority of the state becomes tyrannical.

Pope John Paul II, who has a mystique without a politique. He has no armies, no publicity directors, no propaganda machine and comes from the smallest state in all the world.

Totalitarians are fond of saying that Christianity is the enemy of the State—a euphemistic way of saying an enemy of themselves.

It had to be a mad dream, one that would give her the courage she would need to discard the prejudices of a class that had not always been hers but had become hers more than anyone's. It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end in itself.

There is no privileged state which allows us to transcend time; and this was where Proust made his great mistake. A state such as he describes has only the value of a foretaste. This notion of a foretaste is, I feel, likely to play a more and more central part in my thinking.

The state of being lost, he seemed to imply, granted him a kind of freedom.

On an annual basis you are essentially paying the extra cost of maintaining a Nevada corporation—$325 to the Nevada secretary of state and $125 (or so) for a resident agent in Nevada.

Cindy realized that if they created a Wyoming corporation to be the ad agency they could minimize their state taxes.