Albert Meltzer Quotes

Why, since people must outnumber the minority that comprises the State and its oppressive forces, have they submitted so meekly to it?

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• I love the perspective afforded by having lived five decades, a degree of bemused and muted calm, a relief from the insistent demands of a turbulent ego and rampant ambition. I'd love to stay here forever. But something tells me that 50 is a sunny idyll, a temporary state of grace, a golden afternoon.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Perspective
  • Ambition
  • Grace

• The highest state is laughter.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Laughter
  • State
  • Highest

• Surely, I must at all times attempt to obey the law of the state. But when the will of God and the will of the state conflict, I am compelled to follow the will of God.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • God
  • Law
  • Will

• Minority views expressed in films simply don't sell tickets.

  

  Karel Reisz
  • Views
  • Sell
  • Minority

• Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • You
  • Truth Is
  • Minority

• Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.

  

  Dalia Mogahed
  • Like
  • Prejudice
  • Minority

• The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.

  

  Abba Eban
  • Living
  • Jews
  • Minority

• I am a supporter of the state of Israel.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Israel
  • Supporter

• This country is about history, and unless the Serbs in particular come to some understanding of this history, we cannot build a stable state.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Country
  • History
  • Understanding

• It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object they actually see.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • People
  • Good
  • Deal

• If we are to assume that North Korea becomes a nuclear-power state, of course the danger of having an all-out nuclear war, that possibility is very slim.

  

  Lee Myung-bak
  • Power
  • War
  • Danger

• Generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties, says what the states can't do to you, says what the federal government can't do to you. But it doesn't say what the state or federal government must do on your behalf.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Government
  • Say
  • Constitution

• The state of the world terrifies me. It feels more powerful personally to fight it through larger actions as opposed to trying to fight the Trump administration itself. It's sort of self-preservation for my mental health. If I spend too much of my energy and my brain on Trump, I'd lose my mind.

  

  Amandla Stenberg
  • World
  • Mind
  • Trying

• Carolyn [Maloney] is the kind of legislator who, whether she's in the majority or the minority, whether her party is in the majority or the minority, she doesn't take "No" for an answer, and she frequently calls women leaders and say, "I think we should do this. This is really necessary for women." And so she hangs in there and gets bills passed when people think it's not possible.

  

  Eleanor Smeal
  • People
  • Women
  • She

• I am a proponent of investing in infrastructure… and, if we can use state resources to make ProvPort more prosperous and successful, then that will benefit the whole state.

  

  Gina Raimondo
  • State
  • Resources
  • Benefit

• When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.

  

  Aristotle
  • End
  • Poor
  • State

• Experience has shown that it is difficult, if not impossible, for a populous state to be run by good laws.

  

  Aristotle
  • Experience
  • Impossible
  • Laws

• But obviously a state which becomes progressively more and more of a unity will cease to be a state at all. Plurality of numbers is natural in a state; and the farther it moves away from plurality towards unity, the less of a state it becomes and the more a household, and the household in turn an individual.

  

  Aristotle
  • Individual
  • Unity
  • State

• The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Church
  • Emotions
  • Minority

• I believe in a wall between church and state so high that no one can climb over it. When religion controls government, political liberty dies; and when government controls religion, religious liberty perishes. Every American has the constitutional right not to be taxed or have his tax money expended for the establishment of religion. For too long the issue of government aid to church related organizations has been a divisive force in our society and in the Congress. It has erected communication barriers among our religions and fostered intolerance.

  

  Sam Ervin
  • Believe
  • Church
  • State

• It's a new dawn, it's a new day...and I'm feeling good.

  

  Eunice Kathleen Waymon
  • New Day
  • Feeling Good

• It seems, after all that there are no nonpeculiar people.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • People

• Why, since people must outnumber the minority that comprises the State and its oppressive forces, have they submitted so meekly to it?

  

  Albert Meltzer
  • State
  • Minority
  • Submitted