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Quotes About State

Magic is a state of mind. It is often portrayed as very black and gothic, and that is because certain practitioners played that up for a sense of power and prestige. That is a disservice. Magic is very colorful. Of this, I am sure.
~ Alan Moore
I've built my homeland, I've even founded my state - in my language.
~ Mahmoud Darwish
Even imperfection itself may have its ideal or perfect state.
~ Thomas de Quincey
Heaven is a state of mind, not a location, since Spirit is everywhere and in everything.
~ Wayne Dyer
The root of the kingdom is in the state. The root of the state is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its head.
~ Mencius
The Russian norm is an extremely barbaric state of mind.
~ Merab Mamardashvili
The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.
~ Benito Mussolini
We have a duty as the state to protect our economy... We are for the protection of intellectual property.
~ Angela Merkel
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
~ Cesare Pavese
There's no doubt that the Christian right has gone to bed with the more conservative elements of the Republican Party. And there's been a melding in their goals when it comes to the separation of church and state. I've always believed in the separation of church and state.
~ Jimmy Carter
It is not differences of opinion; it is geographical lines, rivers, and mountains which divide State from State, and make different nations of mankind.
~ Jefferson Davis
Without an advocate for the poor, without a new state of mind in America, the country lies on the brink of anarchy.
~ Louis Farrakhan
The state is not abolished, it withers away.
~ Friedrich Engels
There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer, and a conspirator and a liar.
~ Christopher Hitchens
The right to religious freedom is not a gift of the state or a gift of a group.
~ Suharto
In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
~ Tacitus
We must create a state that responds to the citizens' needs, and we need citizens who feel committed to their state because that state serves the citizens.
~ Carlos Mesa
We are starting in the days where there is no discrimination, no distinction between one community and another, no discrimination between one caste or creed and another. We are starting with this fundamental principle: that we are all citizens, and equal citizens, of one State.
~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah
The idea of personal salvation is intensely repugnant to me when it is not absurd. Imagine Roosevelt, the big brute, preserving his personality in a future state and swaggering about as a celestial Rough Rider!
~ George Bernard Shaw
Religion forbids us from assuming a God-like character. This is especially true in politics and government, where limiting the power of the state, division of powers, and the doctrine of checks and balances are established in order to prevent accumulation of power that might lead to such Godly claims.
~ Abdolkarim Soroush
Enjoying outdoor recreation is not only good for physical health, but also for improving mental health, and I encourage everyone to explore some of the beautiful opportunities our state has to offer, particularly at those smaller, less explored state parks.
~ Ned Lamont
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
~ Friedrich Engels
When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
~ Tacitus
Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family.
~ Dennis Prager