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Quotes About State

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
~ Charlotte Bronte
If in a relationship there is no tension [meaning no deepening of knowledge of self and others], it ceases to be a relationship and merely becomes a comfortable sleep state, an opiate - which most people want and prefer.
~ Charlotte Kasl
When I wasn't internally grumbling about my physical state, I found my mind playing and replaying scraps of songs and jingles in an eternal, nonsensical loop, as if there were a mix-tape radio station in my head. Up against the silence, my brain answered back with fragmented lines from tunes I'd heard over the course of my life - bits from songs I loved and clear renditions of jingles from commercials that almost drove me mad.
~ Cheryl Strayed
Gujarat is the only state in India where people tend to respect you more if you have a business than if you are in service.
~ Chetan Bhagat
After much Occasion to consider the Folly and Mischiefs of a State of Warfare, and the little or no Advantage obtained even by those Nations who have conducted it with the most Success, I have been apt to think that there has never been or ever will be any such Thing as a good War or a bad Peace.
~ Benjamin Franklin, 1782
This, then, is the state of the Union: Free and restless, growing and full of hope. So it was in the beginning. So it shall always be, while God is willing, and we are strong enough to keep the faith.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965
It's a sad state of affairs that we have only one choice (for abortion) right now. But if you have to go out of state, the cost of making that trip will be prohibitive.
~ Charon Asetoyer
Consciousness can be a state of mind, but it is not a condition of mind
~ H.W. Mann
You are wrong. The state and its existence are essential before everything else. All this preoccupation with liberty is not serious.
~ Habib Bourguiba
The Korean economic miracle was the result of a clever and pragmatic mixture of market incentives and state direction. The Korean government did not vanquish the market as the communist states did. However, it did not have blind faith in the free market either. While it took markets seriously, the Korean strategy recognized that they often need to be corrected through policy intervention.
~ Ha-Joon Chang
The welfare state is the bankruptcy law for workers
~ Ha-Joon Chang
The broad use of state in Hegelese presents translation problems. Marx's early formulations, in the Hegelian spirit, often come close to counterposing the state concept (the ideal state) against what we would now understand by the term.
~ Hal Draper
Dignity and honor are gifts: "[O God], You exalt whomever You will, and You debase whomever You will" (QURAN, 3:26). Proofs of this Divine law abound. There are many accounts, for example, of people who were once in positions of authority and wealth, who then find themselves paupers completely stripped of their former glory, reduced, in many instances, to wards of the state. God is powerful over all things, and all good, authority, and provision are in His hand, not ours.
~ Hamza Yusuf
Der Staat ist die Einheit eines Systems von Normen, die regeln, unter welchen Bedingungen ein bestimmter Zwang von Mensch zu Mensch geübt werden soll.
~ Hans Kelsen
Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.
~ Hans-Georg Gadamer
The institution of a State is praxeologically incompatible with private property and private property based enterprise. It is the very anti-thesis of private property, and any proponent of private property and private enterprise then must, as a matter of logic, be an anarchist.
~ Hans-Hermann Hoppe
The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law.
~ Harold Pinter
Perhaps the mildest form of the system of slavery is to be seen in the State of Kentucky.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
encephalitis, especially from vaccination, can give rise to an allergic state, while conversely the existence of an allergic state predisposes to the development of encephalitis after vaccination.
~ Harris Coulter
This right of privacy, whether it be founded in the Fourteenth Amendment's concept of personal liberty and restrictions upon state action, as we feel it is, or, as the District Court determined, in the Ninth Amendment's reservation of rights to the people, is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.
~ HARRY BLACKMUN
As Frederic Bastiat put it, "The State is the great fictitious entity by which everyone expects to live at the expense of everyone else."[8]
~ Harry Browne
The fundamental basis of this nation's laws was given to Moses on the Mount…If we don't have a proper fundamental moral background, we will finally end up with a totalitarian government which does not believe in rights for anybody except the State.
~ Harry S. Truman
Dictatorship, by whatever name, is founded on the doctrine that the individual amounts to nothing; that the State is the only one that counts; and that men and women and children were put on earth solely for the purpose of serving the state.
~ Harry S. Truman
acordo com o modelo bíblico para a educação, os pais devem controlar a educação de seus filhos e se envolver com ela de forma direta. Diante de Deus, nem o Estado nem a igreja tem qualquer jurisdição nesse assunto.
~ Harvey Bluedorn