State Quotes
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We have now educated ourselves into a state of complete imbecility.
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It would seem that men always need some idiotic fiction in the name of which they can hate one another. Once it was religion. Now it is the State.
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Let me control the textbooks, and I will control the state.
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Tennessee's a hillbilly dumping ground, and Georgia's a lousy state too.
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We do not need an imported system for falsifying elections! We will create our own, one run by the state!
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To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
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Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.
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A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange.... Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.
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Peace is the state where love abides and seeks to share itself.
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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.
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When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.
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The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
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Siberia is a state of mind.
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I do not like to state an opinion on a matter unless I know the precise facts.
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A state is an association of similar persons whose aim is the best life possible. What is best is happiness, and to be happy is an active exercise of virtue and a complete employment of it.
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I believe the most important mission of the state is to protect the individual and make it possible for him to develop into a creative personality.
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The state is made for man, not man for the state.... That is to say, the state should be our servant and not we its slaves.
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It has been handed down in mythical form from earliest times to posterity, that there are gods, and that the divine compasses all nature. All beside this has been added, after the mythical style, for the purpose of persuading the multitude, and for the interests of the laws, and the advantage of the state.
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My extreme characters are in a state of rebellion or who are being ostracized or being misunderstood, or misfits or trying to fit in and fighting for their rights to love, live, and co-exist. They sort of mirror my own demons.
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The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy. That State is the best governed which is governed the least.
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I love England but everything that has happened makes me realise that I would be better off in the States.
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Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace.
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I reverted easily to my wild state, that is experimentation.
