Quotes About State

I have kept a steady focus on restoring public faith in our state government since taking office July 1. Now it is time to make even bigger and bolder gains through legislative action.

We go to the movies to forget about time, to be in a dream state. And it's entertainment, distraction, from the fact that everything is kind of crumbling in front of our eyes.

We shall have lost something vital and beyond price on the day when the state denies us the right to resort to force.

Happiness is simply a state of mind in which our thinking is pleasant a good share of the time.

The first time I was in this state recruiting, that's when I knew I wanted to be a Gator, because I saw the influence and saw what it's all about. This goes a long time.

Yeah, I had a tremendous time shooting in Nebraska. I like that state a lot, all over it.

Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state of mind. ... What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.

The head of state Has called for me by name But I don't have time for him It's gonna be a glorious day I feel my luck could change

In a certain state of mind, all trace of feeling is banished. Whenever I remain silent in a certain way, I don't love you, have you noticed that?

To ignore the state of our children is to ignore the state of our world.

Adulthood is a wonderful thing and brief. You must be sure to enjoy it while it lasts. I believe the soul in Paradise must enjoy something nearer to a perpetual vigorous adulthood than to any other state we know.

Por eso afirmaba que, para contrarrestar el estado de ignorancia y estupidez que podía acarrear a los trabajadores lo mecánico de su tarea, la educación era indispensable y debía ser financiada, para quienes no podían costeársela, por el Estado o la sociedad civil.

Um Estado laico não é inimigo da religião; é um Estado que, para resguardar a liberdade dos cidadãos, desviou a prática religiosa da esfera pública para o âmbito que lhe corresponde, que é o da esfera privada. Porque quando a religião e o Estado se confundem, desaparece irremediavelmente a [L]iberdade.

Hay, claro, estadios intermedios entre una democracia intervenida por una determinada política parcial o atenuada de controles y una sociedad totalitaria o policial donde el Estado controla prácticamente el cien por ciento de las actividades sociales. Pero

Really, although it's a great place to live, Ottawa's a rather backwater capital of a very decentralized state where power over important issues like education, health care and social services lies with the provinces.

Since you act as though God is dead, I wanted to join you in the mourning. The reply of Martin Luther's wife, in full funeral regalia, in trying to illustrate the folly of his depressed state.

They had taken to the movement unlike anything he had ever seen, and he thought that should this venture of the Jews prove successful, the new state would be filled with dancers and musicians, but especially dancers, for dancing like nothing else says: I am still alive.

we went from not a single state having an obesity rate over 20 percent to not a single state having an obesity rate under 20 percent

history's greatest lessons is that once the state embraces a religion, the nature of that religion changes radically. It loses its nonviolent component

Active practitioners of nonviolence are always seen as a threat, a direct menace, to the state. The state maintains the right to kill as its exclusive and jealously guarded privilege. Nothing makes this more clear than capital punishment, which argues that killing is wrong and so the state must kill killers.

Literary Teas are constantly in a state of flux. The uninitiated gravitates toward the author, the author toward the editor or publisher, the publisher toward the reviewer, and the reviewer, in desperation, toward another drink.

Micro-regulation is micro-tyranny, a slithering, serpentine network of insinuating Ceaucescu and Kim Jong-Il mini-me's. It's time for the mass rejection of their diktats. A political order that subjects you to the caprices of faceless bureaucrats or crusading judges merits no respect. To counter the Bureau of Compliance, we need an Alliance of Non-Compliance to help once free people roll back the regulatory state.

In his book Soft Despotism, Democracy's Drift, Paul Rahe writes, Human dignity is bound up with taking responsibility for conducting one's own affairs. But today the state cocoons one's own affairs so thoroughly as to remove almost all responsibility from modern life, and much of human dignity with it. And, if personal consequences have been all but abolished, societal consequences are harder to dodge...A society of children cannot survive, no matter how all-embracing the government nanny.

the nationalization of the family proceeds apace, and America is as well advanced on that path as anywhere else. "The west has nationalized families over the last 60 years," writes Vaidyanathan. "Old age, ill health, single motherhood—everything is the responsibility of the state.