Quotes About State

Man lives by committing himself to invisible states, by fusing his imagination with what he knows to be other than himself, and in this union he experiences the results of that fusion. No one can lose what he has save by detachment from the state where the things experienced have their natural life.

Every state is already there as 'mere possibility' as long as you think of it, but is overpoweringly real when you think from it. Thinking from the end is the way of Christ.

As the will of heaven is ever done on earth, you are today in the heaven that you have established within yourself, for here on this very earth your heaven reveals itself. The Kingdom of Heaven really is at hand. Now is the accepted time. So create a new heaven, enter into a new state of consciousness and a new earth will appear.

Choose wisely the state that you will serve. All states are lifeless until imagination fuses with them.

The man who at will can assume whatever state he pleases has found the keys to the kingdom of Heaven. The keys are desire, imagination, and a steadily focused attention on the feeling of the wish fulfilled. To such a man, any undesirable objective fact is no longer a reality and the ardent wish no longer a dream.

Whatever state has your attention holds your life. Therefore, to become attentive to a former state is to return to that condition. "Remember not the former things, neither consider the things of old.

As the appearance of our world is determined by the particular state with which we are fused, so may we determine our fate as individuals by fusing our imaginations with ideals we seek to realise. On the distinction between our states of consciousness depends the distinction between the circumstances and conditions of our lives. Man, who is free in his choice of state, often cries to be saved from the state of his choice.

It is not a strong will that sends the subjective word on its mission so much as it is clear thinking and feeling the truth of the the state affirmed. When belief and will are in conflict, belief invariably wins.

Imagine yourself to be the ideal you dream of and desire. Remain attentive to this imagined state and as fast as you completely feel that you are already this ideal it will manifest itself as reality in your world.

Stand still in the psychological state defined as your objective until you feel the thrill of Victory. Then, with confidence born of the knowledge of this law, watch the physical realisation of your objective.

What's a state of emergency?' a man asked. 'Oh, don't ask a foolish question. Haven't you heard about Malaya?' 'What about it?' 'There was a state of emergency.

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.

The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms; and as there cannot be good laws where the state is not well armed, it follows that where they are well armed they have good laws.

The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.

we carry within us innate proclivities that reflect our natural social state, a state that is, as it turns out, primarily good, practically and even morally. Humans can no more make a society that is inconsistent with these positive urges than ants can suddenly make beehives.

Broken state agencies such as the Rhode Island Department of Children, Youth & Families (DCYF) do not deserve more money to sink into programs that are unproven and ineffective.

Regarding the bill, Nicholas Alahverdian said "The policy of this bill is safety of children at every cost. The aim of this bill is adequate education and housing for children in the care of the state. People may ask at what cost. We say at any cost, for the life of a child in a system with a $600M budget deserves at the very least, food, schooling, and stable shelter, and if possible, a family life. We must never give up, and I certainly won't.

Yes! I am insinuating that as a result of the way business is done in the Rhode Island government, kids in state care will continue to suffer and be abused as a result of the fact of that money won't be going into the right pockets.

For a nation that had been without a real head of state since the execution of Louis XVI,

Here, in impoverished northern India state of Bihar, near the Nepalese border, there's not much else available commercially-- except sex.

Pointing to a trend in Western democracies, Agamben posits that the declaration of an emergency state of exception itself has gradually been replaced by a "generalization of the paradigm of security as the normal technique of government" (2003/2005, 14), that is, the state of exception or emergency has become integrated in the normal functioning of the state.

If government subsidies to corporations were a sufficient criterion to label a country's economic system as "state capitalist," many market economies would qualify.

None of us should be given a pass on having to have actual libertarian positions, or not be able to be called out when you say you oppose marriage equality. You know, that's not a libertarian position to have. State's rights is not a libertarian position, and it's something Ron Paul had pushed for a long time.

Liberalism is a really old British tradition and it has a completely different attitude towards the individual and the relationship between the individual and the state than the collectivist response of Labour, and particularly Old Labour, does.