Quotes About State

Speaking for myself, I am no flag waver, no patriot, and I am fully aware that venality, brutality, and hypocrisy are imprinted on the leaden soul of every state. But when a country ceases to be merely a country and becomes an empire, then the scale of operations changes dramatically. So may I clarify that tonight I speak as a subject of the American empire? I speak as a slave who presumes to criticize her king.

Terrorism is vicious, ugly, and dehumanizing for its perpetrators as well as its victims. But so is war. You could says that terrorism is the privatization of war. Terrorists are the free marketeers of war. They are people who don't believe that the state has a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence.

The Maoists are not the only ones who seek to depose the Indian State. It's already been deposed, several times, by Hindu fundamentalism and economic totalitarianism.

At on level I am happy--awed--that there are people...that have defected from the state...but then there's part of me that thinks... How could you ever have believed in it? Is is possible to have a moral state? A moral superpower? I can't understand those people that believe the excesses are just aberrations ... Of course I understand it intellectually, but ... part of me wants to retain that incomprehension ...

To fuel yet another war this time against Iraq by cynically manipulating people's grief, by packaging it for TV specials sponsored by corporations selling detergent and running shoes, is to cheapen and devalue grief, to drain it of meaning. What we are seeing now is a vulgar display of the business of grief, the commerce of grief, the pillaging of even the most private human feelings for political purpose. It is a terrible, violent thing for a State to do to its people.

Venne dichiarato il ritorno allo stato di normalità. (Lo stato di normalità era sempre una dichiarazione.)

Largely on their advice, Goodman's state medical board has given him permission to return to practice, although with restrictions.

the modern State's greatest single instrument of oppression, its murderous tax on drink...accounts for nearly all the miseries besetting our once-merry land; football hooliganism, colour prejudice, industrial unrest, cynicism about politicians; the list is endless.

Collectivism means the subjugation of the individual to a group—whether to a race, class or state does not matter. Collectivism holds that man must be chained to collective action and collective thought for the sake of what is called "the common good.

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. If a man values productive work, his happiness is the measure of his success in the service of his life.

We are nothing. Mankind is all. By the grace of our brothers are we allowed our lives. We exist through, by and for our brothers who are the State. Amen.

Incredulity and indifference were her only reaction: incredulity, because she could not conceive of what would bring human beings to such a state —indifference, because she could not regard those who reached it, as human any longer.

Kako je jedna narodna i plebiscitarna, u su[tini antiautoratitativna i antidrzavna revolucija dovela do toga da je najdiktatorskija i najetatisti;kija politi;ka grupa preuzela vlast_ Kakvu veyu moemo uspostaviti izmedju nesporne radikalizacije ruskog dru[tva tokom cijele 1917. i boljsevizma

todo el mundo roba, desde los niños a los viejos —lo cual puede significar simplemente, dado que todo pertenece al Estado, que se han cogido unas pocas frutas—. Trampa infernal, una sociedad que no deja más opción que morir, robar y engañar: esta deseducación, en particular entre los jóvenes, ha permitido que subsista hasta hoy un cinismo y un egoísmo que comprometen las posibilidades de desarrollo de Camboya.

Men who preferred a church without a bishop came naturally to the idea of a state without a king.

The deciphering of these experiences requires knowledge of the basic principles of the unconscious dynamics as described by Freud, especially the mechanisms of dreamwork, and also familiarity with certain specific characteristics of the LSD state and its symbolic language.

the entire notion of the state undermining some primordial family privacy is a myth, because the nuclear family has never existed as an autonomous, private unit except where it was the synthetic creation of outside forces. The strong nuclear family is in large measure a creation of the strong state.

Trying to adopt a consistent position on whether state intervention is good or bad for privacy may be like demanding that scientists choose whether light consists of waves or particles, when it consists of both.

Science seems to have uncovered a set of laws that, within the limits set by the uncertainty principle, tell us how the universe will develop with time, if we know its state at any one time. These laws may have originally been decreed by God, but it appears that he has since left the universe to evolve according to them and does not now intervene in it.

Given the state of a system at some time, the laws of nature determine the probabilities of various futures and pasts rather than determining the future and past with certainty.

The laws of science determine the evolution of the universe, given its state at one time.

Laplace suggested that there should be a set of scientific laws that would allow us to predict everything that would happen in the universe, if only we knew the complete state of the universe at one time.

Deoarece principiul de incertitudine nu permite s? avem valori exacte atât pentru câmp, cât È™i pentru viteza lui de variaÈ›ie, spaÈ›iul nu e niciodat? gol. El poate avea o starea de energie minim?, numit? vid, dar acea stare e supus? la ceea ce numim fluctuaÈ›ii cuantice sau fluctuaÈ›ii ale vidului.

Rationalism is the idea that we can ever understand anything about the state of being. It's a deathtrip. It always has been. . . . And if rationalism is a deathtrip, then irrationalism might very well be a lifetrip . . . at least until it proves otherwise.