Alice Notley Quotes

It's necessary to maintain a state of disobedience against...everything.

Alice Notley

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• The highest state is laughter.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Laughter
  • State
  • Highest

• Since Israel is a democratic state surrounded by essentially undemocratic states which have sworn her destruction, those interested in democracy everywhere must support Israel's existence.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Support
  • Democracy
  • Existence

• It's very important for Taiwan to maintain its international contact.

  

  Ma Ying-jeou
  • Important
  • Very
  • Maintain

• I am a supporter of the state of Israel.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Israel
  • Supporter

• Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Honest
  • Relationships
  • Maintain

• 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

• Tennessee's a hillbilly dumping ground, and Georgia's a lousy state too.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • State
  • Ground
  • Tennessee

• I think leadership is creating a state of mind in others.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Mind
  • Leadership
  • State

• 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

• 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

• The Church is the merciless heart of the State.

  

  Pier Paolo Pasolini
  • Heart
  • Church
  • State

• The State has but one face for me: that of the police. To my eyes, all of the State's ministries have this single face, and I cannot imagine the ministry of culture other than as the police of culture, with its prefect and commissioners.

  

  Jean Dubuffet
  • Police
  • Face
  • State

• I was in a very deep state of shock after that. I had raised my horse since he was six months old and he was more like a child to me, so I took it very hard. They never caught who did it and the stable did a great job of covering facts up so it couldn't be proved that it was the direct result of the article, but the coincidence was striking.

  

  Jeff Miller
  • Job
  • Child
  • Result

• 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

• Now what is just and right is to be interpreted in the sense of 'what is equal'; and that which is right in the sense of being equal is to be considered with reference to the advantage of the state, and the common good of the citizens. And a citizen is one who shares in governing and being governed. He differs under different forms of government, but in the best state he is one who is able and willing to be governed and to govern with a view to the life of virtue.

  

  Aristotle
  • Life
  • Right
  • Virtue

• O powerful love, that in some respects makes a beast a man, in some other, a man a beast.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Powerful
  • inspirational

• I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Age
  • Said
  • Extraordinary

• The role played by education in all political utopias from ancient times onward shows how natural it seems to start a new world with those who are by birth and nature new. So far as politics is concerned, this involves of course a serious misconception: instead of joining with one's equals in assuming the effort of persuasion and running the risk of failure, there is dictatorial intervention, based upon the absolute superiority of the adult, and the attempt to produce the new as a fait accompli, that is, as though the new already existed.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Education
  • Failure
  • Produce

• What is lawful is not binding only on some and not binding on others. Lawfulness extends everywhere, through the wide-ruling air and the boundless light of the sky.

  

  Empedocles
  • Others
  • Binding
  • Lawful

• Few novels truly deserve the description 'rollicking' in the way Mary Novik's Conceit does. A hearty, boiling stew of a novel, served up in rich old-fashioned story-telling. Novik lures her readers into the streets of a bawdy seventeenth-century London with a nudge and a wink and keeps them there with her infectious love of detail and character. A raunchy, hugely entertaining read that will leave you at once satiated and hungry for more.

  

  Gail Anderson-Dargatz
  • Character
  • Deserve
  • Description

• It's necessary to maintain a state of disobedience against...everything.

  

  Alice Notley
  • State
  • Maintain
  • Disobedience