Quotes About State

I allowed myself to give way, to slip down into this mindless state, which was as inchoate as the fog outside, and there to rest, wallow and find, if not peace, at least a certain relief in the suspension of all extremes of emotion.

But gradually I discovered for myself the truth of the axiom that a man cannot remain indefinitely in a state of active terror. Either the emotion will increase until, at the prompting of more and more dreadful events and apprehensions, he is so overcome by it that he runs away or goes mad; or he will become by slow degrees less agitated and more in possession of himself.

My dear, you are unhappy to the last inch of your shadow. I fear this state is so familiar to you that you no longer recognize it as unhappiness.

with Under Secretary of State Stettinius, visiting

The measure of the state's success is that the word anarchy frightens people, while the word state does not.

The real triumph of the state occurs when its subjects refer to it as "we," like football fans talking about the home team.

There has never been a humane communist regime. Marxism is inherently totalitarian. It recognizes no moral limits on the state. It's the most convenient ideology for aspiring tyrants; it also retains its appeal for intellectuals, who have proved equally skillful at rationalizing abuses of power and at exculpating themselves.

at the time of the adoption of the Constitution, and of the [First] Amendment...the general, if not the universal, sentiment in America was, that Christianity ought to receive encouragement from the State so far as was not incompatible with the private rights of conscience and the freedom of religious worship. Any attempt to level all religions, and to make it a matter of state policy to hold all in utter indifference, would have created universal disapprobation, if not universal indignation.

To find them all in one package...well, perhaps better not to dwell on his package in my fragile state.

The American tradition of separation of church and state grew directly from the freethinking of the Founders. After political independence, they considered independence of thought and belief a logical next step.

El papa Pío XII, un tanto alarmado, aunque el suyo era un Estado independiente del italiano, sustituyó las alabardas dd la guardia suiza por metralletas, que no se sabe de dónde las sacó. Dios proveerá, dicen.

Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.

Cuál es la tarea de todo sistema escolar superior? Hacer del hombre una máquina. ¿Cuál es el medio para ello? El hombre tiene que aburrirse. ¿Cómo se consigue eso? Con el concepto de deber. ¿Quién es su modelo en esto? El filólogo: este enseña a ser un empollón ¿Quién es el hombre perfecto? El funcionario estatal…(

Love is not a state, a feeling, a disposition, but an exchange, uneven, fraught with history, with ghosts, with longings that are more or less legible to those who try to see one another with their own faulty vision.

Do we need recourse to a happier state before the law in order to maintain that contemporary gender relations and the punitive production of gender identities are oppressive?

Horse People may be heads of state or professionally unemployed in their private lives, but horses are their passion, as Jerusalem was the passion of the soldier in some ancient crusade. The cult of the horse as their idol is as central to their lives as cocaine is to some and applause is to others.

The legal system is designed to protect men from the superior power of the state but not to protect women or children from the superior power of men. It therefore provides strong guarantees for the rights of the accused but essentially no guarantees for the rights of the victim. If one set out by design to devise a system for provoking intrusive post-traumatic symptoms, one could not do better than a court of law.

Das Lesen war weder Arbeit noch Hobby, es folgte keinem bestimmten Interesse. Lesen war ein Zustand, in dem die Zeit verstrich, weil sie nicht anders konnte, während Adas Verstand in Nahrung eingelegt wurde, so dass seine hektische Gier in ein gleichmäßiges Einsaugen und Verwerten überging.

Das ist meine Art, an der Verliebtheit zu arbeiten«, sagte Moritz. »Man könnte auch Plastikrosen kaufen, ein staatlich geprüftes Parfüm oder schokoladefreie Pralinen. Nur dass ihr das nicht gefallen würde. Ich bringe einen Strauß Parolen zum Rendezvous, den Duft der Freiheit und die Süße der Revolution.«

De staat was als een foute vriend, die alleen iets van zich liet horen als hij iets van je wilde.

Plato's political vision, the idea that only in an ideal state, ruled in the interests of all, can people be virtuous and so happy.

Christians must act according to their state in life, respecting and glorifying God in all circumstances. Though what may constitute indecent, immodest, or improper decorum at one time or place may not necessarily be so at another.

Ramil met Tashi's eyes with a mischievous look. "Now Wife we have a long voyage ahead of us with no interruptions, no affairs of state to sidetrack us." He brushed his fingers againist the lacings of her neck. "Isn't it time you returned that shirt to its owner?

First and foremost, Indiana will always be a basketball state.