Quotes About State

Issues related to investor-state disputes are a matter of serious concern. It is something which we have to apply our minds to.

In the Russian experience, although the Russian state is oppressive, it is their state, it is part of their fabric, and so the relation between Russian citizens and their state is complicated.

Both state and church have as their object actions as well as convictions, the former insofar as they are based on the relations between man and nature, the latter insofar as they are based on the relations between nature and God.

Does the Centre not have confidence in the state's investigative agencies? It leads to strained relations between the Centre and state.

I can't imagine what it would be like to write in a relaxed state. I'm going to be writing some stories for my own interest. I want to experiment with different things and see if I can approach writing with much less control and in a better psychological state. It will be like breaking out of a straitjacket.

There is a respectable body of economic thought that holds that casino gambling is actually economically regressive to a state and a community.

What I am delivering to Alaska is a future that holds hope and opportunity for jobs, for people in this state.

I know if that I'm not fighting for my home state, my home district, that other members who are out there fighting for their state, their district, they're not going to fight for New York for me.

It's always fun playing in your home state.

For me to be able fight in my home state of New York would be a dream come true.

Abandoned homes are everyone's problem, afflicting communities all over the state.

I am honored to have the support of so many Coloradans across our state.

Connecticut would not be Connecticut if we cut $3.5 billion out of the budget. We are a strong, generous, hopeful people. We'd be taking $800 million out of education. You can't do that in this state.

Philosophy does not serve the State or the Church, who have other concerns. It serves no established power. The use of philosophy is to sadden. A philosophy that saddens no one, that annoys no one, is not a philosophy. It is useful for harming stupidity, for turning stupidity into something shameful.

Philosophy is not in a state of external reflection on other domains, but in a state of active and internal alliance with them, and it is neither more abstract nor more difficult.

Only thought is capable of inventing the fiction of a State that is universal by right, of elevation the State to the level of de jure universality

A single and same voice for the whole thousand-voiced multiple, a single and same Ocean for all the drops, a single clamour of Being for all beings: on condition that each being, each drop and each voice has reached the state of excess -- in other words, the difference which displaces and disguises them and, in turning upon its mobile cusp, causes them to return.

Quando alguém pergunta para que serve a filosofia. Fazer enfim do pensamento algo agressivo, ativo e afirmativo. Fazer homens livres, isto é, homens que não confundam os fins da cultura com o proveito do Estado, da moral ou da religião (...).

Orice gândire este deja un trib, opusul unui stat.

Before being a mental state of the schizophrenic who has made himself into an artificial person through autism, schizophrenia is the process of the production of desire and desiring-machines.

The transition from being a persecuted minority religion to being the favored faith of the emperor inevitably forged ties between church and state that have been a driving force in Western political life ever since.

The state is more interested in self-aggrandizement and power than it is in promoting the good.

In fact, forming new state governments, as Jefferson said in the spring of 1776, was "the whole object of the present controversy." For the aim of the Revolution had become not simply independence from British tyranny, but also the prevention of future tyrannies.

The Americans' new state constitutions would therefore have to be fixed plans—single written documents, as the English constitution had never been—outlining the powers of government and specifying the rights of citizens.