Quotes About State

I come from a state with many sound, responsible banks.

But meditation is different. From the perspective of meditation, every state is a special state, every moment a special moment.

if a person was overcome by a violent madness he'd involuntarily start to sound like someone from Louisiana.

If you think shrinking government and getting it less involved in your life is a hallmark of tyranny it is only because you are either grotesquely ignorant or because you subscribe to a statist ideology that believes the expansion of the state is the expansion of liberty.

Government money only pays for the liberties the government thinks you should have, and therefore it can determine how you exercise them. That turns liberties into privileges dispensed at the whim of the state.

Crisis is routinely identified as a core mechanism of fascism because it short-circuits debate and democratic deliberation. Hence all fascistic movements commit considerable energy to prolonging a heightened state of emergency.

Some master meditators achieve a particularly concentrated state of mind, samadhi, in which their mind is capable of gaining profound insights into reality.

The whole state of Maine is unlocked.

a consistently planned "worker" State there is no room for philosophy because philosophy cannot serve other ends than its own or it ceases to be philosophy; nor can the sciences be carried on in a philosophical manner, which means to say that there can be no such thing as university (academic) education in the full sense of the word.

For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state

Tellingly, the department that deals with relations with the rest of the world doesn't have the word "foreign" in it: it is the State Department. It looks after the interests of one state alone. It might be called the Bargepole Department.

C'est à cause de la légitimité que le peuple octroie à l'Etat que le dit Etat use de violence vis-à-vis du peuple lorsque celui-ci ne fait pas ce qu'il a décidé.

Two blocks away, in the shadows of the old state asylum—a large complex of yellow-brick Victorian buildings

The 'Islamic State', that strange miscegenation of Medina with Westphalia, is always in mortal danger of linking the moral austerity of monotheism with the repressive and supervisor powers of the modern nation state.

it may never be said that like the state and the church, science arose because of sin and thus from an intervening grace.

I denied it, this new land. But love, I'll concede this: whatever state you are, I'll be that state's bird, the loud, obvious blur of song people point to when they wonder where it is you've gone.

When Leopold wrote that the precise frontiers of the new state or states would be defined later, [German Chancellor] Bismarck said to an aide, "His Majesty displays the pretensions and naive selfishness of an Italian who considers that his charm and good looks will enable him to get away with anything.

The real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state.

that states have often passed laws against fortune-tellers and prophets of doom.

How many does it take to metamorphose wickedness into righteousness? One man must not kill. If he does, it is murder.... But a state or nation may kill as many as they please, and it is not murder. It is just, necessary, commendable, and right. Only get people enough to agree to it, and the butchery of myriads of human beings is perfectly innocent. But how many does it take?

The frailest woman will become a heroine when the life of her own child is at stake. And only the will to save the race and native land or the State, which offers protection to the race, has in all ages been the urge which has forced men to face the weapons of their enemies.

Sparta must be regarded as the first völkisch state. The exposure of the sick, weak, deformed children, in short, their destruction, was more decent and in truth a thousand times more human than the wretched insanity of our day which preserves the most pathological subject.

I dream of a state of affairs in which every man would know that he lives and dies for the preservation of the species.

When the Habsburg State crumbled to pieces in 1918 the Austrian Germans instinctively raised an outcry for union with their German fatherland. That was the voice of a unanimous yearning in the hearts of the whole people for a return to the unforgotten home of their fathers.