Quotes About State

The state authorities have no place in the church of God, no right to control and persecute the conscience.

God doesn't need to be a witness. He doesn't need to go to a court, does he? 'You' are the one who has to attain a witness state, so that there's no karma bondage. And 'God' only keeps on 'seeing'!

The welfare state has always been judged by its good intentions, rather than its bad results.

The first goal and primary function of the U.S. public school is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is the function which we call - in enemy nations - 'state indoctrination.'

I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they must be good.

It is always possible to get into a higher state of mind. The way you get into a higher state of mind is by generating good karma.

A state may launch a pre-emptive strike if it has very good reason for thinking that another state is preparing for war.

If a sect arises whose tenets would subvert morals, good sense has fair play and reasons and laughs it out of doors without suffering the State to be troubled with it.

Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property.

All good writers express the state of their souls, even (as occurs in some cases of very good writers) if it is a state of damnation.

If you believe that health care is a public good to be guaranteed by the state, then a single-payer system is the next best alternative. Unfortunately, it is fiscally unsustainable without rationing.

The state of perpetual emptiness is, of course, very good for business.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.

The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.

The State calls its own violence, law; but that of the individual, crime.

In every State, the government is nothing but a permanent conspiracy on the part of the minority against the majority, which it enslaves and fleeces.

Deception is a state of mind and the mind of the State.

...having a member who serves in the Government and who also belongs to the structures of the party does not retard this particular objective the separation of party and state. It does not.

Anarchy is a state of society where the only government is reason.

In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you.

The safety of the State is the highest law.

There are many Sheriff Arpaios. People who have taken to local city, county, and state governments across the county the idea that immigrants are the problem. That immigrants are to blame.