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Quotes About State

I'm a business guy from Pennsylvania who has done a lot for the state.
~ Michael G. Rubin
Penn State has also continued to be a leader in Pennsylvania's largest industry: Agriculture.
~ Tim Holden
Pennsylvania is one of the most important states in the country when it comes to the election of the president of the United States.
~ Martha MacCallum
I've always been a great fan of the state of Pennsylvania. One of the people - one of the people that I admired the most in college athletics was Joe Paterno.
~ Bobby Knight
People don't cut through Michigan the way they cut through Ohio and Pennsylvania and Illinois. So tolls are more complicated for us because we're a destination state.
~ Gretchen Whitmer
But while the state pension is a critical foundation for people's financial security as they age, it must be supplemented with other forms of retirement income.
~ David Gauke
Government pensions are among the largest cost drivers for state and local governments.
~ Bruce Rauner
Quite often you hear people say, 'What about separation of church and state?' There is no such thing.
~ Dan Severson
My mental state is perfectly fine.
~ Greg Oden
I'm a Buckeye at heart. I spend more time giving concerts in Ohio than I do in any other state - perhaps more time than I spend performing anywhere else in the world. I have a great relationship with the people of Ohio, and it's great to be near the OSU when I come to Columbus.
~ Al Jarreau
My father calls acting 'a state of permanent retirement with short spurts of work.'
~ Chris Pine
Can you look forward to the future of our country and imagine any state of things in which, with slavery still existing, we should be assured of permanent peace? I cannot.
~ Robert Dale Owen
Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.
~ Plato
Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.
~ Plato
Socrates is a doer of evil, who corrupts the youth; and who does not believe in the gods of the state, but has other new divinities of his own. Such is the charge.
~ Plato
Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
~ Plato
The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.
~ Plato
To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.
~ Plato
Si el Estado del Bienestar redistribuye la pobreza y reduce los ingresos, el buenismo educativo redistribuye la ignorancia y reduce el conocimiento".
~ Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza
Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year.
~ Polly Toynbee
What is drama, and what is dharma? I guess you could say drama is illusion that acts like truth, and dharma is truth itself—the way things are, the basic state of reality that does not change from day to day according to fashion or our mood or agenda.
~ Ponlop Rinpoche, Dzogchen
But a universal state is not a new beginning for a civilization, it's the start of the death, and it has to follow the same course over and over through history, like a kind of slow but terminal sickness.
~ Poul Anderson
India has worked not because of 'unity in diversity', the presence of a locus of identity beneath differences, as the state is fond of telling us. We have flourished rather because we are 'diverse in our unities', each able to imagine the connection with others in his/ her own way.
~ Pratap Bhanu Mehta
All that was once looked on as a function of the government is today called in question. Things are arranged more easily and more satisfactorily without the intervention of the state. And in studying the progress made in this direction, we are led to conclude that the tendency of the human race is to reduce government interference to zero; in fact, to abolish the state, the personification of injustice, oppression and monopoly.
~ Pyotr Kropotkin