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Quotes About State

Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent.
~ James Connolly
Happiness is a 'state of mind' which we ourselves have the power to control - and that control lies in our thinking.
~ Claude M. Bristol
Each state enjoys sovereign power.
~ Gouverneur Morris
There is something about the state putting the power to bully into the hands of subnormal, sadistic apes that makes my blood boil.
~ Gore Vidal
I will do everything in my power to prevent a Palestinian state
~ Naftali Bennett
The land is ours. I will do everything in my power, forever, to fight against a Palestinian state being founded in the Land of Israel.
~ Naftali Bennett
A state's potential power is based on the size of its population and the level of its wealth.
~ John Mearsheimer
Executive power is exercised by the President of the Governing Board who, with the title of President of the Republic of Chile, administers the state and is the Supreme Chief of the Nation.
~ Augusto Pinochet
The Tea Party movement as I perceive it is all about recognizing the difference between state and federal powers. And that there are limits to federal power that need to be respected.
~ Mike Lee
The strike, the boycott, the refusal to serve, the ability to paralyze the functioning of a complex social structure-these remain potent weapons against the most fearsome state or corporate power.
~ Howard Zinn
Stoic tranquility was a psychological state marked by the absence of negative emotions, such as grief, anger, and anxiety, and the presence of positive emotions, such as joy.
~ William B. Irvine
The Stoics, as we have seen, thought tranquility was worth pursuing, and the tranquility they sought, it will be remembered, is a psychological state in which we experience few negative emotions, such as anxiety, grief, and fear, but an abundance of positive emotions, especially joy.
~ William B. Irvine
In a full-fledged case of desire, by way of contrast, a creature is able to form a mental representation of the thing it desires, compare the current state [sic] with the desired state, and initiate action to diminish these states. Only a creature with considerable brainpower will have these abilities.
~ William B. Irvine
The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else.
~ William Beveridge
If man were to live in a state of nature, unconnected with other individuals, there would be no occasion for any other laws, than the law of nature, and the law of God. Neither could any other law possibly exist; for a law always supposes some superior who is to make it; and in a state of nature we are all equal, without any other superior but him who is the author of our being.
~ WILLIAM BLACKSTONE
The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
~ William Blake
America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that 'treason' is morally worse than murder or rape.
~ William Blum
America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that 'treason' is morally worse than murder or rape.
~ William Blum
we have unknowingly accepted and merged our state of consciousness with the vibrational energies and consensus limits of their loved one's collective reality.
~ William Buhlman
87The Confederacy had become virtually a welfare state ahead of its time, and yet again the antithesis of the hands-off government ethic upon which so much of Southern political and social ideology lay based.
~ William C. Davis
beauty' is related not to 'loveliness' but to a state in which reality plays a part.
~ William Carlos Williams
hunt v. 1. harvest The state of Florida preferred the word "harvest" to the word "hunt" when it allowed hunters to kill 35,000 alligators. 2. naturalize kill (ANIMALS) v. 1. harvest; see also hunt 2. manage wildlife 3. depopulate
~ William D. Lutz
Her conclusion was that the Mughal state was unusually extractive and appropriated 56.7 per cent of the total produce. Her research focused on five north Indian provinces: Agra, Delhi, Lahore, Allahabad and Avadh. The total
~ William Dalrymple
There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.
~ William F. Buckley Jr.