Quotes About State

State, nation, and citizen are three essentially modern concepts and none of them easily fits the British experience.

God is wrath and God is mercy. The State is the instrument of his wrath, the Church of his mercy

The Church must run the risk of dilution rather than leave the state to the cold light of reason, unwarmed by tenderness.

Those precious words, Holy and Spiritual, have been perverted for us through the greed of the preachers, in that they have denominated the state of priests and monks holy and spiritual, and have thus scandalously robbed us of these noble, precious words, as also of the word Church, since with them the Pope and Bishops are the Church, while they do according to their own pleasure whatever they choose, in virtue of the declaration

Church and State are both rent, by the tugging of the demonic and the Divine

For if the world were without godly men and those who are to be saved, it would not stand; and when the last saints are living, the Last Day will soon come. For God has no concern for the state and the household except for the sake of the church.

From antiquity to modern times, virtually every society that has been organized as a state has condemned the consumption of human flesh more forcefully than it has condemned the consumption of any other kind of animal food.

In many ways the rise of the state was the descent of the world from freedom to slavery

pese a las leyes que decretan la separación de la Iglesia y el Estado, el sistema tributario americano proporciona apoyo indirecto a las instituciones religiosas.

it is easy to imagine the widespread pleasure when in 167 BCE Rome became a tax-free state: the treasury was so overflowing – thanks, in particular, to the spoils from the recent victory over Macedon – that direct taxation of Roman citizens was suspended except in emergencies, although they remained liable to a range of other levies, such as customs dues or a special tax charged on freeing slaves.

Rome was the only place in the ancient Mediterranean where the state took responsibility for the regular basic food supplies of its citizens.

This time the senators met in the temple of the goddess Concord, or Harmony, a sure sign that affairs of state were anything but harmonious.

by referring to the conspirators as enemies of the state, he was implying that they did not deserve the protection of Roman law; they had lost their civic rights (including the right to trial).

shorthand slogan for the legitimate power of the Roman state, a slogan that lasted throughout Roman history and continues to be used in Italy in the twenty-first century CE. More widely still, the senate

The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.

Love is a state of mind which has nothing to do with the mind.

Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion¦. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Love is that enviable state that knows no envy or vanity, only empathy and a longing to be greater than oneself

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the definer of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful moulder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.

The state has moved from being the main creator of public money to being a supplicant 'housewife'.

Prayer is for cleansing the soul and for removing the illness from the inner state of being.