Quotes About State

Catholics could not in theory inherit property – giving rise to the unpleasant possibility of one member of the family declaring adherence to the official Protestant religion of the State, and demanding to inherit property otherwise destined for a Catholic heir.

The King's response was unequivocal: any proposition which tended to destroy the maxim that employees of the State must be members of the Established Church could not be discussed.

A crucial speech stressed the active tyranny of Catholicism: if the new Bill was passed, the result would be the creation of a Catholic state in Ireland hostile to Protestantism. This speech was regularly reprinted as a body blow to the hopes of Catholic Emancipation.

The discipline imposed on citizens by the bourgeois state makes them into subjects, people who delude themselves that they exert an influence on the course of events.

Politics always lags behind economics, far behind. The state apparatus is far more resistant than is possible to believe; and it succeeds, at moments of crisis, in organizing greater forces loyal to the regime than the depth of the crisis might lead one to suppose. This is especially true of the more important capitalist states.

Stato significa specialmente direzione consapevole delle grandi moltitudini nazionali; è quindi necessario un contatto sentimentale e ideologico con tali moltitudini e, in una certa misura, simpatia e comprensione dei loro bisogni e delle loro esigenze.

The self is a repeatedly reconstructed biological state.

Two other axes of conflict emerged: state centralism against regional independence and authoritarianism against the freedom of the individual. The

Aussi, dans la démocratie, les pauvres sont-ils souverains à l'exclusion des riches, parce qu'ils sont les plus nombreux, et que l'avis de la majorité fait loi. Voilà donc un des caractères distinctifs de la liberté ; et les partisans de la démocratie ne manquent pas d'en faire une condition indispensable de l'État.

The government is everywhere sovereign in the state, and the constitution is in fact the government.

Hence it is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal. And he who by nature and not by mere accident is without a state, is either a bad man or above humanity; he is like the Tribeless, lawless, hearthless one, whom Homer denounces — the natural outcast is forthwith a lover of war; he may be compared to an isolated piece at draughts.

To Aristotle or to Plato the State is, above all, a large and powerful educative agency which gives the individual increased opportunities of self-development and greater capacities for the enjoyment of life.

The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing; and therefore he is like a part in relation to the whole.

And therefore, if the earlier forms of society are natural, so is the state, for it is the end of them, and the [completed] nature is the end. For what each thing is when fully developed, we call its nature, whether we are speaking of a man, a horse, or a family. Besides, the final cause and end of a thing is the best, and to be self-sufficing is the end and the best.

Neither should we forget the mean, which at the present day is lost sight of in perverted forms of government; for many practices which appear to be democratical are the ruin of democracies, and many which appear to be oligarchical are the ruin of oligarchies. Those who think that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state.

En todo Estado es preciso distinguir dos cosas: la cantidad y la calidad de los ciudadanos. Por calidad entiendo la libertad, la riqueza, las luces, el nacimiento; por cantidad entiendo la preponderancia numérica. La calidad puede estar en una parte de los elementos políticos, y la cantidad encontrarse en otra; y así las gentes de nacimiento oscuro

For even if the end is the same for a single man and for a state, that of the state seems at all events something greater and more complete whether to attain or to preserve; though it is worth while to attain the end merely for one man, it is finer and more godlike to attain it for a nation or for city-states. These, then, are the ends at which our inquiry aims, since it is political science, in one sense of that term.

State comes into being for the sake of living, but it exists for the sake of living well.

We proceed next to consider in what manner property should be regulated in a state which is formed after the most perfect mode of government, whether it should be common or not;

There is also another defect in his laws worthy of censure, which Plato has given in his book of Laws; that the whole constitution was calculated only for the business of war: it is indeed excellent to make them conquerors; for which reason the preservation of the state depended thereon. The destruction of it commenced with their victories: for they knew not how to be idle, or engage in any other employment than war.

Art, then, as has been said, is a state concerned with making, involving a true course of reasoning, and lack of art on the contrary is a state concerned with making, involving a false course of reasoning; both are concerned with the variable

Good men were not to be made merely by laws which relied for their sanction on force but only by religion and morality, which appealed to the conscience. Only when the people, he wrote, had emptied them-selves of all the lust of selfish will—and without religion it was impossible they should—could absolute power be safely entrusted to the State.

This hydrogen was under such enormous pressure that it had become a metal.

Tranquillity was not a state of mind that could be sustained for long.