Quotes About State

The first principle of a civilized state is that power is legitimate only when it is under contract.

Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism.

Self-imposed limits on sovereign power can disarm mistrust, but provide no guarantee of liberty and property beyond those afforded by the balance between state and private force.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

There is also a doubt as to what is to be the supreme power in the state: - Is it the multitude? Or the wealthy? Or the good? Or the one best man? Or a tyrant?

It is an essential feature of the just state that the wealthy be kept away from political power and that the politically powerful be kept away from wealth.

So long as we only believe in the justice of the state, of the law-made by those in power, to serve those in power-so long will we continue to be exploited by those in power.

Separation of church and state cannot mean an absolute separation between moral principles and political power.

The state sovereignty is key here in the Electoral College - and if you're going to start divvying up the power of each state's elections, you are destroying state sovereignty.

In assuming any office besides its essential one, the State begins to lose the power of fulfilling its essential one.

The state or global forms of power that seek to protect populations considered in danger may well extend their own power through those acts of protection.

The ruling power within, when it is in its natural state, is so related to outer circumstances that it easily changes to accord with what can be done and what is given it to do.

The power of sound to put an audience in a certain psychological state is vastly undervalued. And the more you know about music and harmony, the more you can do with that.

A corporation is a state created institution, state supported institution, its concentration of private power, there is no reason why it should have the rights of persons.

The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power.

All branches of our government today are controlled by individuals who use their power to undermine liberty and enhance the welfare/warfare state-and frequently their own wealth and power.

When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.

History is only a tiresome repetition of one story. Persons and classes have sought to win possession of the power of the State in order to live luxuriously out of the earnings of others

Command and obedience are but unfortunate necessities of human life: society in equality is its normal state.

The mind of had the ability to alter the state of matter itself, and, more important, the mind had the power to encourage the physical world to move in a specific direction

The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.

Believers must persevere in prayer that they may see clearly their own pitiful state and understand the indwelling, working, and demands of the Holy Spirit.

Prayer is, for me, like that - a state of being together with God. It's not usually triggered by liturgy or special needs. It's more like what the Bible instructs us to do: Pray without ceasing.

There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.