Quotes About State

The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and other matters - raising revenue to pay for things which are for all of us, and so on. That idea has turned turtle now. The state isn't any longer perceived as an institution which exists to serve us.

My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.

This website is the dream of people who want to change the culture of state government.

A lot of industry groups have said they support a federal law. They don't want to have to deal with 50 different state laws.

Love does not exist, it's like religion, the state wants you to believe in that kind of crap so they can control you, and f**k your head up.

Poland is a sovereign state. We want the same rights as all other EU countries. Nothing more, but nothing less, either.

I do situate myself in this problem of being a Jew who doesn't want to be represented by the state of Israel, a state that claims to represent all Jewish people and make me into a potential citizen.

Worrying seems like a fairly natural state of being for a parent, so feel free to worry as much as you want.

I am against resources being controlled by corporations, but that doesn't mean I want them controlled by the state.

The battle between your current state and your desired state cannot be won without a powerful weapon called CHOICE. Your choice determines you.

Mr. Blair, I look upon secession as anarchy. If I owned the four millions of slaves in the South, I would sacrifice them all to the Union; but how can I draw my sword upon Virginia, my native State?

The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the State governments, in times of peace and security.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

We can guess that the unacceptable conduct of the soldiers at Abu Ghraib resulted in part from the dangerous state of affairs on the ground in a theater of war.

War is very uncertain in its results, and often when affairs look most desperate they suddenly assume a more hopeful state.

All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.

Lord, there's danger in this land, you get witch hunts and wars when church and state hold hands.

By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars.

Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are, and those few dare not oppose themselves to the opinion of the many, who have the majesty of the state to defend them.

We weed out the darnel from the corn and the unfit in war, but do not excuse evil men from the service of the state.

During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.

War is elevating, because the individual disappears before the great conception of the state... What a perversion of morality to wish to abolish heroism among men!

A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.