Quotes About State

It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.

Our goal is to make Maine the healthiest state in the nation and reduce our overall health care costs.

Socialism and interventionism. Both have in common the goal of subordinating the individual unconditionally to the state.

Larry Flynt, running for governor of California. His goal - change our state bird to the spread eagle.

Aliyah is the central goal of the State of Israel.

Let's make New York the safest state in America - that must be our goal. Let's achieve it together.

Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state.

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.

Nature, our father and mother, gave us all we have got. The state, our elder brother, swipes the lot.

The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver.

Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

The unconditional loving and forgiving state of mind creates a vortex whose gravity is so powerful that it attracts all the love and good in the universe to you.

Virginia is the absolute leader in homeland security and defense and information technology.

Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime? If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?

The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him. Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.

Toward the close of the campaign, a day was spent in the state's largest city, Birmingham. It is, in Alabama, the closest thing to alien turf for Wallace, not only because of its relative sophistication, but because the Republican party is particularly robust there.

We also have to factor in that candidates do not always compete on an equal footing: those who have access to the media or use the state apparatus for their campaigns have an important advantage in relation to everyone else.

The federal government could intervene in civil rights disputes only when a state violated political rights associated with citizenship. After the Slaughter-House Cases ruling, state assemblies went far beyond passing segregation legislation aimed at keeping African Americans apart from whites.74 They passed exclusionary laws discriminating against Jews, Mexican Americans, Native Americans, and Asian Americans.

the fact that every people feel itself threatened by the others gives the state it's definite unifying powers; it depends upon the instinct of self-preservation of society itself; the latent external crisis enables it to get the upper hand in internal crises

Moving state and behavior between classes is the very essence of refactoring. As the system develops, you find the need for new classes and the need to shuffle responsibilities around. A design decision that is reasonable and correct one week can become incorrect in another. That is not a problem; the only problem is not to do something about it.

Morphine and state relief are the same. You go dopey, feel better and are worse off.

In considering what the religions teach, it is essential to remember that the outside world is as a reflection of the soul of man [...] The state of the outer world does not merely correspond to the general state of men's souls; it also in a sense depends on that state, since man himself is the pontiff of the outer world. Thus the corruption of man must necessarily affect the whole.

State, nation, and citizen are three essentially modern concepts and non of them easily fits the British experience.