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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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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We do not need an imported system for falsifying elections! We will create our own, one run by the state!
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The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
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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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I love England but everything that has happened makes me realise that I would be better off in the States.
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As the State formerly played a most important part in the revolutions that abolished the old economic systems, so it must again be the State that should abolish capitalism.
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Peace is the state where love abides and seeks to share itself.
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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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I do not like to state an opinion on a matter unless I know the precise facts.
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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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Siberia is a state of mind.
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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.
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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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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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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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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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You are in a state of mixing, and you just live with it. There is not one musician who is completely happy with a mix.
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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.
