Quotes About State

I guess happiness is not a state you want to be in all the time.

The reason that the Croats want a state of their own is that they fear being cut into little pieces by the Serbs.

One can tell or do whatever one wants when one is in the Opposition but once one is running a state, one cannot do that.

The people are that part of the state that does not know what it wants.

I fully understand it's important to maintain the separation of church and state. We don't want the state to become the church, nor do we want the church to become the state.

Right now my favorite thing is working to recall our absolute shitbag of a governor. He's been screwing up my state for more than a year. I want him out.

I suppose home is, for me, more of a state of mind. It's really more of about being where I want to be with people I care about.

Sleep is such a potent, liminal state, and I don't want to drag anything in there that doesn't need to be there.

I think, in my own state, I can tell you that people do want to hear a serious discussion on serious issues.

Mississippi gets more than their fair share back in federal money, but who the hell wants to live in Mississippi?

You are not seeking to attain some future state. That is the fallacy of many spiritual seekers. They have an image of some state - enlightenment, or whatever they call it - they want to achieve.

There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.

A state that employs torture invites barbarism and deserves nothing better than to suffer the harvest of its own excesses.

War is not a natural state. It is an imposition, and a damned unhealthy one. With its rules, we willingly yield our humanity. Speak not of just causes, worthy goals. We are takers of life. Servants of Hood, one and all.

Should your willpower prove unequal to the task, I am afraid that what remains of your sanity will be torn away. Your mind itself will be shredded by the maelstrom, leaving you a drooling wreck.' After a moment, he added, 'Such a state of being may not be desirable. Of course, should you achieve it, you will not care one way or the other, which you may consider a blessing.

The state is the emperor; the emperor is the state. The rest of us are like grains of sand on a beach: interchangeable, indistinguishable, inconsequential. A Roman citizen has no importance whatsoever, no matter how much some of us would like to pretend otherwise.

If Vespasian had a vice, it was greed. The emperor and his favorites had shamelessly exploited their positions to accrue enormous wealth, treating the Roman state as a moneymaking scheme for insiders. Vespasian famously put a tax on the city's latrinae, claiming a share of the money made by the sale of urine to fullers, who used it to clean wool. Thus the saying, "Even when you piss, the emperor takes a percentage.

Babylon might act as a narcotic upon the senses, lulling Melandra into a dreamy state of unreality, but bitterness still burned within her.

Paul also reminds the Roman believers that "we have peace through our Lord Jesus Christ" (Rom. 5:1). Foerster helpfully writes, "The basic feature of the Greek concept of 'eirene' is that the word does not primarily denote a relationship between several people, or an attitude, but a state, i.e., 'time of peace' or 'state of peace' originally conceived of purely as an interlude in the everlasting state of war.

Chicago is not the most corrupt of cities. The state of New Jersey has a couple. Need we mention Nevada? Chicago, though, is the Big Daddy. Not more corrupt, just more theatrical, more colorful in its shadiness.

In the cabaret of globalization, the state shows itself as a table dancer that strips off everything until it is left with only the minimum indispensable garments: the repressive force.

Rape is] nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear.

It's sad that we vote for and elect officials to run our state, run our country, over social issues. I don't believe they belong in politics.

It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.