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Quotes About State

Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state.
~ Ambrose Bierce
We're an independent sovereign country and that's very important to Monaco.
~ Albert II, Prince of Monaco
Egypt is a sovereign nation.
~ William Hague
It is against this concept of the sovereign state, a state isolated by protectionism and militarism, that internationalism must now engage in decisive battle.
~ Christian Lous Lange
No state is free from militarism, which is inherent in the very concept of the sovereign state. There are merely differences of degree in the militarism of states.
~ Christian Lous Lange
In line with international law, only the U.N. Security Council could sanction the use of force against a sovereign state. Any other pretext or method which might be used to justify the use of force against an independent sovereign state are inadmissible and can only be interpreted as an aggression.
~ Vladimir Putin
How can you have the religion of the sovereign be the religion of the state if the sovereign belongs to many religions? And it's at that point, I think, historically, that you start to see people saying maybe the state should not associate itself with any religion. Maybe there shouldn't be any official religion.
~ Noah Feldman
India, being a sovereign state, has the right to decide what kind of nuclear deterrent New Delhi needs in respect of international security perception.
~ Rajnath Singh
For me, everything is still possible and I am as determined as ever. I believe first that the project of a people does not die. It is the project of freedom for a people, it is a project of sovereignty. And since the nation exists, it has the right to its own state. I will work to advance it in that direction.
~ Pauline Marois
One has this image of the Soviet state and the Red Army as being extremely disciplined but in the first four months of 1945 their soldiers were completely out of control.
~ Antony Beevor
The Soviet State had never made radiation something that was publicized in any way, shape, or form. In fact, the Soviet Union had experienced a number of serious accidents involving radiation since the 1950s and had covered it up a number of times.
~ Craig Mazin
Love is an unconditional state of being.
~ Asa Don Brown, Waiting to Live
It's really difficult to pretend that you are happy when you actually are not in a state to face someone!!
~ Sachin Jha, Let Love Speak
Não estatize meus sentimentos. Pra seu governo, o meu estado é independente.
~ Renato Russo
Fears are nothing more than states of mind. One's state of mind is subject to control and direction.
~ Napoleon Hill
FAITH is a state of mind which may be induced, or created, by affirmation or repeated instructions to the subconscious mind, through the principle of autosuggestion.
~ Napoleon Hill
Worry is a state of mind based upon fear. It works slowly, but persistently. It is insiduous and subtle.
~ Napoleon Hill
The emotion of sex brings into being a state of mind.
~ Napoleon Hill
Happiness, the final object of all human effort, is a state of mind that can be maintained only through the hope of future achievement. Happiness lies always in the future and never in the past. The happy person is the one who dreams of heights of achievement that are yet unattained.
~ Napoleon Hill
Modernity starts with the state monopoly on violence, and ends with the state's monopoly on fiscal irresponsibility.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Until recent history, the central state represented about 5 percent of the economy. ...and further, governments were sufficiently distracted by war to leave economic affairs to businessmen. The contagious creation of nation-states in the late nineteenth century led to what we saw with the two world wars and their sequels.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Paris itself was barely controlled by France—no more than the Rio slums called favelas are currently ruled by the Brazilian central state.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A cluster of municipalities with charming provincial enmities, their own internal fights, and people out to get one another aggregates to a quite benign and stable state.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
am, at the Fed level, libertarian; at the state level, Republican; at the local level, Democrat; and at the family and friends level, a socialist.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb