Quotes About State

I don't understand why anybody old enough to know the score ever gets married, anyway. Why should love require a contract? Why put yourself into the clutches of the state and give it power over you? Why invite lawyers to fuck around with your assets? Marriage is for the immature and the insecure and the ignorant. We who see through such institutions should be content to live together without legal coercion

The state has only a limited incentive to guarantee the value of money. The reason is that it can always produce the money necessary to defray its expenses, either by debasing the coinage when money is metal or by printing more of it when it is paper.

It's a funny life," Augustus said. "All these cattle and nine-tenths of the horses is stolen, and yet we was once respected lawmen. If we get to Montana we'll have to go into politics. You'll wind up governor if the dern place ever gets to be a state. And you'll spend all your time passing laws against cattle thieves.

Fate suggests no agency. Synchronization is all about agency. It involves all systems running in a state where different parts of the system are almost, if not precisely, ready.

Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being.

A nanny state is hostile to liberty. Any attempt to institute or continue it should be opposed, root and branch. Government intervention is never the solution; it is always part of the problem.

If classical music is the state of the art, then the arts are in a sad state.

Sadness is a state of sin.

But how to raise a sum in the different States has been my greatest difficulty.

Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought and feeling.

It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely assimilated when it is in the nascent state.

The separation of state and church must be complemented by the separation of state and science, that most recent, most aggressive, and most dogmatic religious institution.

There exists for every liquid a temperature at which no amount of pressure is sufficient to retain it in the liquid form.

The state of healthcare today is that we are busy in the practice of medicine vs. being in the science of medicine.

The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.

To some physicists chaos is a science of process rather than state, of becoming rather than being.

Science is a way to pursue one's sense of inquiry at the expense of the State.

Ideology follows the money.""Governments don't protect people, people protect governments.""To accept the legitimacy of the state is to embrace the necessity for war.

Why don't we just sit and stare and do nothing? Nothing at all for a while I like the way you smile I could be your state and I could be your nation It doesn't get better than home, now does it?

My smile wavers as I revert to my natural state of being: nervous and weird.

The State is a gang of thieves writ large - the most immoral, grasping and unscrupulous individuals in any society.

The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else.

The state reserves the right to be the sole interpreter of the needs of society.

Our country, like every modern state, needs profound democratic reforms. It needs political and ideological pluralism, a mixed economy and protection of human rights and the opening up of society.