Quotes About State

We do not want to see a Hong Kong that enjoys freedoms on paper, but whose autonomous status conceals the workings of a totalitarian state beneath.

Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.

We do not want to see a Hong Kong that enjoys freedoms on paper but whose autonomous status conceals the workings of a totalitarian state.

The new soft totalitarianism that is advancing on the left wants to have a state religion It is an atheist, nihilistic religion - but it is a religion that is obligatory for all.

Although police terrorism plays a specific role on behalf of the state, it is not the totality of what state violence looks like or feels like in our communities.

Bisping is a clean athlete, and it comes down to whether you're clean or not. I'm totally against the use of drugs and steroids in the UFC and any performance enhancing drugs. Shows a lot about someone's mental state if they have to do that.

The state must be the first to be organized and totally committed to serving the interests of the people. We must always be clear that the example is set at the top.

the key concept that ensures reversibility is conservation of information—if the information needed to specify the state of the world is preserved as time passes, we will always be able to run the clock backward and recover any previous state. That's where the real puzzle concerning the arrow of time will arise.

To a physicist, a "vacuum" is not a machine that cleans your floors, nor does it even necessarily mean "empty space." It's simply "the lowest-energy state of a theory.

This amply shows Cromwell's frame of mind before leaving for Ireland. His fear was that the young Charles, who had been declared king in Scotland immediately after his father's death, would land in Ireland, rally the people to the royalist cause and lead an invasion to England. In the summer of 1649 it seemed to Cromwell that Ireland had become a royalist state and the prospects of a successful English invasion of that country were receding with every passing day.

He mistakenly caused an earthquake that engulfed the surrounding city blocks, breaking windows and shaking the plaster off of the walls. He announced that he had discovered how to turn the earth into a giant tuning fork, and that, in theory, the principles could shatter the Empire State Building or even possibly cause the earth to "split open like an apple.

The crime of seditious libel implies that the people are inferior to the state, and that their criticisms are unacceptable to their master. An

Buried in the Air under a mountain of irrelevant information, as all important things are. Nothing is hidden, and everything is ignored. The surveillance state doesn't need violence to perpetrate injustice. All it needs is our indifference.

The German Reich had to cease to be a state in order to become fully an instrument of conquest.

From you we have learned what we, at least, value, to separate Church and State and from you we gather inspiration at all times in our devotion to learning, to religious liberty, and to individual and National freedom.

The root of all that exists, Samsara and nirvana, is one's own mind. Primordially, mind is emptiness. Merge into the sky-like absolute expanse, Empty, luminous, beyond clinging. Outside, inside; eyes open or closed, Day, night; asleep or awake: No difference. During practice, after practice, Mind, appearances: Blend them. Continuously, without wavering, Merge completely with this vibrant, sky-like state.

Caution not spirit, let it roam wild; for in that natural state dance embraces divine frequency

When the church takes affairs of the state more seriously than they do Jesus, Pax Romana becomes its gospel and the president becomes the Son of God.

When the church takes affairs of the state more seriously than they do Jesus, Pax Romana becomes its gospel and the president becomes the Son of God. After all, what is the point in calling anything God if it does not also hold sway in every part of one's life—especially one's politics?

When the people are weak, the state is strong; hence the state that possesses the Way devotes itself to weakening the people.

The means whereby the sovereign encourages the people are offices and ranks; the means by which the state prospers are agriculture and warfare. Today the people seek offices and ranks, yet they are attainable not through agriculture and warfare but through crafty words and empty ways: this is called to exhaust the people.

When one thousand people are engaged in agriculture and warfare, yet there is a single man among them engaged in Poems, Documents, argumentativeness and cleverness, then one thousand people all will become remiss in agriculture and warfare. … This is the teaching that impoverishes the state and weakens the army.

I was just telling your cousin I thought you were sick," she said to René. "Why, exactly, aren't you sick?" "Such a darling," René said to the room. "And so considerate of my health. You'd have me abed all day, wouldn't you, my love?" "Always," she replied slowly, "my love." Though the look she sent clearly added her preference that he be in an unconscious or perhaps a non-breathing state.

You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state. What you can do are yoga exercises, which may reveal to you where you are resisting your natural state.