Quotes About State

Architecture is the printing-press of all ages, and gives a history of the state of the society in which it was erected, from the cromlech of the Druids to those toy-shops of royal bad taste

I would say democracy once meant an organizational society and a state, in which the individual citizen is - feels - responsible, and acts responsibly, and participates in decision-making.

There is such a thing as society. It's just not the same thing as the state.

We are the state, and we shall continue to be the state until we have created the institutions that form a real community and society of men.

Many words are in a state of mutation, the pronunciation being unsettled even in the best society, a result that must often arise where language is as variable and undetermined as the English.

Innocents, the meat in a ghastly sandwich between an uncaring society and a vengeful state.

The State becomes society or humanity on the ethical side, a production and trade system on the economic side

Happiness is our natural state. Happiness is the natural state of little children, to whom the kingdom belongs until they have been polluted and contaminated by the stupidity of society and culture.

Sometimes the state and the constitution are more enlightened than society.

The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

Naval dominance of European waters was the largest, longest, most complex and expensive project ever undertaken by the British state and society.

The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society.

Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.

For however much the state may gain by not having to fund roads on its own, society would lose in aggregate if the open commons of transportation were lost.

We show no relish for reconfiguring the relationship between the state, the market and society. The world is on the turn, yet we do not seem equal to the challenge.

I hope my organization will not be around in 10 years, because at a national, state, and community level, we will have evolved into a society that cares about children and the need for play.

The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of the state of your mind.

Nothing is important save the spiritual state that enables one to subjectify one's thoughts to a sensation and to think only of the sensation, all the while searching to express it.

No individual can ultimately fail. The Divinity which descends into humanity is bound to re-gain its original state.

For the Fascist, everything is the State, and nothing human or spiritual exists, much less has value, outside the State. In this sense Fascism is totalitarian.

Greatness is a spiritual condition.

For the spiritual sense of the Word treats everywhere of the spiritual world, that is, of the state of the church in the heavens, as well as in the earth; hence the Word is spiritual and Divine.

The state accumulates moral power only through the spiritual activity of their citizens.

A state, a community, caring first for all its children, providing amply for their spiritual as for their temporal well-being, has organized the primitive Eden.