Quotes About State

The Book of Job is advice on how to live in terms of the absolute power of nature. Leviathan is advice on how to live in terms of the absolute power of the state.

I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature.

The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases

It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.

No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.

Heaven is not a club we enter. Heaven is a state we attain, in accordance with our "capacity to receive" a blessed and sanctified nature.

For centuries the word 'nature' has been used to bolster prejudices or to express, not reality, but a state of affairs that the user would wish to see.

Could we perfect human nature, we might also expect a perfect state of things.

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.

If I want to transform patriotism then I do not proceed in the slightest against the fine fact of the nation but against the mixing up of the nation and the state.

As to the state, from my point of view, the measure of a writer's patriotism is not oaths from a high platform, but how he writes in the language of the people among whom he lives .

Man is immortal, his salvation is hereafter, The state has no immortality, its salvation is now or never

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat to world peace.

Peace must begin within self before there can come action or self application in a way to bring peace-even in thine own household, in thine own vicinity, in thine own state or nation.

For peace and brotherhood, I am ready to serve the Turkish state, and I believe that for this end I must remain alive.

Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.

Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.

Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown.

Every extension of the functions and power of the State beyond its primary duty of maintaining peace and justice should be scrutinized with jealous vigilance.

We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.

Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.

It is much more likely that help comes in when what you are doing is done while you are in a state of inner peace, rather than resistance.