Quotes About State

The state is needed and exists because of stopping violence and exploitation in general terms.

The state must be free before any citizen declares himself or herself to be free too.

There are more conspirators in a democratic state than in a principality, and when they go unchecked, turn their gaze to anarchism.

There is no benefit of claiming to be a democratic state while you are not willing to practice the true virtues of democracy.

There is no doubt that a great leader will also end up producing good citizens who respect the laws of the state. The same goes for parents and their children.

Those who walk with me, they are confident that we are walking towards the creation of a true republican state.

It's hard to count the ways in which the administrative or regulatory state overturns, abolishes, and usurps the Constitution.

There is nothing of democratic self-government in the "command" of this newly hatched, elitist administrative state, of course.

The magnitude of the Great Depression, Roosevelt thought, required the federal government to seize control of the entire U.S. economy. Only national rather than state or free-market solutions, he believed, could nurse it back to health.

In Soviet writing the demonization of all forms of Ukrainian nationalism has a long tradition, and would make an interesting study in itself. Soviet writers considered almost any criticism of their state—and, from the 1930s, of the Russian Empire—as "fascist" or "counterrevolutionary,

Exile" wasn't just geographical. It was a state of mind and heart, of politics and practicalities, of spirit and flesh. As long as pagans were ruling over the Jews, they were again in exile.

Caesar is only mentioned once in the gospels, and there Jesus says that there's a clear division between God and Caesar, a split of church and state, so that never the twain shall meet. Well, not so fast. We'll get to that. It sounds suspiciously modern. Did Jesus really anticipate post-Enlightenment Western ideology so exactly?

We are still in exile. "Exile" wasn't just geographical. It was a state of mind and heart, of politics and practicalities, of spirit and flesh. As long as pagans were ruling over the Jews, they were again in exile. As long as they were paying taxes to Caesar, they were in exile. As long as Roman soldiers could make obscene gestures at them while they were saying their prayers in the Holy Place, they were still in exile.

sets us free in our personal lives from the need to worship or trust idols, and in our public lives from the pressure to serve the needs of an idolatrous state.

My positions are very clear: I never hide the fact that I categorically oppose a Palestinian state inside our country

There won't be a Palestinian state within Israel

We will never agree to give up Jerusalem, a united city under Israeli sovereignty, and only Israeli. We will not accept a terrorist Palestinian state, we will not accept an agreement based on the 67 lines.

Aucune protection, pas d'assurance, menaces et terreur de partout, de la famille, de l'entourage, de l'Etat, d'un jeune mollah de Qom qui peut te viser du doit et t'envoyer en enfer. p368

Governor Winthrop despised democracy, which he brusquely labeled "the meanest and worst of all forms of Government." For Puritans, the church and state worked in tandem; the coercive arm of the magistracy was meant to preserve both public order and class distinctions.

In the larger scheme of things, the modern complaint against state intervention echoes the old English fear of social leveling, which was said to encourage the unproductive. In its later incarnation, government assistance is said to undermine the American dream. Wait. Undermine whose American dream?

It was all a fiction, of course, because the land was not really inane ac uacuum—void and vacant. As the English conceived it, however, any land had to be taken out of its natural state and put to commercial use—only then would it be truly owned.6

Antiabortion activists, like eugenicists, think that the state has the right to intervene in the breeding habits of poor single women.

While trances had long been associated with biblical figures and medieval saints, American audiences of this era had become familiar with a new type of dream state, the mesmeric or hypnotic trance first noted by the eighteenth century Austrian doctor Friedrich Anton Mesmer.

The Issei were already barred from buying land in California, and by 1920 the state was making it hard for them to even lease.