Quotes About State

The constitution did indeed guarantee freedom of speech, but the laws punished anything that could be considered an attack on state security

I always dream of some great unexpected infidelity. But I have not yet been able to escape my bigamous state. Milan Kundera, The Paris Review, summer 1984 no. 92

I always dream of some great unexpected infidelity. But I have not yet been able to escape my bigamous state. Milan Kundera, The Paris Review summer 1984 no. 92

Konstitucija, žinoma, garantuoja žodžio laisvÄ™, bet ?statymai baudžia už bet kÄ…, kas gali bÅ«ti laikoma pasikÄ—sinimu ? valstybÄ—s saugumÄ…. Niekad nežinai, kada valstybÄ— ims Å¡aukti, kad Å¡is ar anas žodis kÄ—sinasi ? jos saugumÄ…. TodÄ—l kompromi­tuojan?ius raÅ¡inius jis nusprendÄ— paslÄ—pti saugioje vietoje.

it is one thing to have free immigration to jobs. It is another thing to have free immigration to welfare. And you cannot have both. If you have a welfare state, if you have a state in which every resident is promised a certain minimal level of income, or a minimum level of subsistence, regardless of whether he works or not, produces it or not. Then it really is an impossible thing.

Paul LePage has become a terrible embarrassment to the state I live in and love. If he won't govern, he should resign.

I love Texas, I can't wait in a couple of days to be home to the great state.

There is no such thing as the State And no one exists alone; Hunger allows no choice To the citizen or the police; We must love one another or die.

I truly have come to believe that there are only two states of being that generate our thoughts: LOVE or FEAR.

Love is a state of the heart, but also, an activity. And quite an awesome one.

Whenever more than one thread accesses a given state variable, and one of them might write to it, they all must coordinate their access to it using synchronization.

Good uses of volatile variables include ensuring the visibility of their own state, that of the object they refer to, or indicating that an important lifecycle event (such as initialization or shutdown) has occurred.

The java.util.concurrent.atomic package contains atomic variable classes for effecting atomic state transitions on numbers and object references. By replacing the long counter with an AtomicLong, we ensure that all actions that access the counter state are atomic.

To preserve state consistency, update related state variables in a single atomic operation.

Dutifully following the second law, we conclude that today's state derives from yesterday's even lower entropy state. And that state, we envision, derives from the day-before-yesterday's still lower entropy state, and so on, yielding a trail of ever-decreasing entropy taking us ever farther back in time until we finally reach the big bang.

War, as the foremost ecological disaster of any age, merely reflects the larger state of human affairs in which the total organism called "humanity" finds its existence. —PARDOT KYNES, Reflections on the Disaster at Salusa Secundus

Innocents, the meat in a ghastly sandwich between an uncaring society and a vengeful state.

Buck's girlfriend went by the porny name of Miracle though she had a master's in computer science from Florida State.

Erin said, 'I'll ask you what you've been dying to ask me: how in the world can you do it?' 'Do what?' 'Your job. Dead bodies, day after day. I couldn't take it.' The detective said, 'hey, it's a growth industry. The state could sell fucking bonds.

It's no surprise that appeals to a state of mind called faith can relieve symptoms caused, at least in part, by another, perhaps not very different state of mind.

The progress and perfection of mathematics are linked closely with the prosperity of the state.

Under Communism, both religion and pseudoscience were systematically suppressed—except for the superstition of the state ideological religion. It was advertised as scientific, but fell as far short of this ideal as the most unselfcritical mystery cult.

The global triumph of Western values means we, as a species, have wandered into a state of prolonged neurosis because of the absence of a connection to the unconscious.

The liberal state is neutral between capitalism and its critics until the critics look like they're winning. Then it moves in with its water hoses and paramilitary squads, and if these fail with its tanks.