Quotes About State
As the governor of this state, I obviously see the issue quite differently.
~ Gray Davis
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But how is it now? All we get is orders; and the laws go out of the state. Them legislators set up there at Austin and don't do nothing but makes laws against kerosene oil and schoolbooks being brought into the state. I reckon they was afraid some man would go home some evening after work and light up and get an education and go to work and make laws to repeal aforesaid laws.
~ o.henry
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In social life, in the family government, in the Church, and in the State this is an acknowledged and invariable law. The debtor would be incapable of appreciating the clemency which cancelled the debt, so long as he denied either the existence or the justice of the claim. Unconscious of the obligation, he would be insensible to the grace that remitted it.
~ Octavius Winslow
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The gulf between the private and public views of our countrymen is evidence of the power of the state. —Celâl Salik, Milliyet
~ Orhan Pamuk
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VatandaÅŸlar?m?z?n ÅžAHSİ görüÅŸleriyle RESMİ görüÅŸleri aras?ndaki FARKIN DERİNL???, DEVLETİMİZİN GÜCÜ'nün kan?t?d?r (Celal Salik).
~ Orhan Pamuk
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Peki özgürlüÄŸü kim istiyor? Devlet istemiyor! Tüccarlar buna fazla merakl? deÄŸiller. Toprak aÄŸalar? nefret ediyor! Köylüler duymam??. BaÅŸka kim var? İşçiler?.. Bir de ben! Hah, hah...
~ Orhan Pamuk
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Whereas in Western countries the constitution merely had to guarantee the rights of a per-existing civil society and culture, in Russia it also had to create these. It had to educate society - and the state itself - into the values and ideas of liberal constitutionalism.
~ Orlando Figes
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This ghastly state of things is what you call Bunburying, I suppose? Algernon. Yes, and a perfectly wonderful Bunbury it is. The most wonderful Bunbury I have ever had in my life. Jack. Well, you've no right whatsoever to Bunbury here. Algernon. That is absurd. One has a right to Bunbury anywhere one chooses. Every serious Bunburyist knows that.
~ Oscar Wilde
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How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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Its general vacuity aside there seems to be a ceiling to well-being. My guess is that you can only be so happy. While there seems to be no floor to sorrow. Each deeper misery being a state heretofore unimagined. Each suggestive of worse to come.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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Its general vacuity aside there seems to be a ceiling to well-being. My guess is that you can only be so happy. While there seems to be no floor to sorrow. Each deeper misery being a state heretofore unimagined. Each suggestive of worse to come. I
~ Cormac McCarthy
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That a drug can restructure the world into something like an objective reality is a claim with as little validity as the objective reality itself. I think what I said at the time was that I had no more reason to place my confidence in a drugged state of mind than in a sober one.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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Kingdom of Heaven is really a metaphor for a state of consciousness.
~ Cynthia Bourgeault
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She was half watching, half musing. It was her constant state. Her eyes were keen and observant, but her inner mind took no notice of what she saw.
~ D. H. Lawrence
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He had become a settled effect in her spirit, a state permanently established, not continuous, but always recurring.
~ D. H. Lawrence
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We say easily, for instance, 'The ignorant ought not to vote.' We would say, 'No civilized state should have citizens too ignorant to participate in government,' and this statement is but a step to the fact: that no state is civilized which has citizens too ignorant to help rule it.
~ W.E.B. Du Bois
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the black folks say that only colored boys are sent to jail, and they not because they are guilty, but because the State needs criminals to eke out its income by their forced labor. Immigrants
~ W.E.B. Du Bois
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the United States succeeded by State action in prohibiting the slave-trade from 1798 to 1803, in furthering the cause of abolition, and in preventing the fitting out of slave-trade expeditions in United States ports. The country had good cause to congratulate itself.
~ W.E.B. Du Bois
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TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little, Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved, Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever after-ward resumes its liberty.
~ Walt Whitman
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Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever afterward resumes its liberty.
~ Walt Whitman
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To the States or any of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little,/Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved,/Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city, of this earth, ever afterward resumes its liberty.
~ Walt Whitman
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The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the 'state of emergency' in which we live is not the exception but the rule. We must attain to a conception of history that is in keeping with this insight.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
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The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the "emergency situation" in which we live is the rule. We must arrive at a concept of history which corresponds to this. Then it will become clear that the task before us is the introduction of a real state of emergency.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
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oppressed teaches us that the "state of emergency" in which we live is not the exception but the rule. We must attain to a conception of history that is in keeping with this insight.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
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