State Quotes

• Whatever the State saith is a lie; whatever it hath is a theft: all is counterfeit in it, the gnawing, sanguinary, insatiate monster.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Lie
  • State
  • Monster

• At this time in my life, I want to be giving to my relationships. And out of that, whatever work you do prospers because you have more to give. There's something very primal about giving birth. It puts you in a state of being very raw.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • My Life
  • Relationships
  • Birth

• In the process of helping some (perhaps most) people to more utility and justice, the state imposes on civil society a system of interdictions and commands.

  

  Anthony de Jasay
  • Helping
  • State
  • Interdictions

• Even as a child back in Indiana, whenever I took a Butterbelly off the hook I used to ask myself, "Does this fish think?" I would even ask others, "Do you suppose this Butterbelly can think?" And all I would get in reply was a look. At the age of eighteen, I left the state.

  

  Will Cuppy
  • Think
  • Child
  • Look

• Science produces an incomparably lyrical state in this man.

  

  Ernest Solvay
  • Man
  • Science
  • Produces

• Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.

  

  Henrik Ibsen
  • Fall
  • Religion
  • State

• Each state claims the right to control interests foreign to itself when those interests are such that it can control them without putting its own interests in danger. ... other powers only recognize this right of intervening in proportion as the country doing it has the power to do it.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Control
  • State
  • Claims

• A small state increases by concord; the greatest falls gradually to ruin by dissension.

  

  Sallust
  • State
  • Falls
  • Dissension

• There is no democrats or republicans, right or left, red state or blue state. We are all one. And we are all unified against Mexicans.

  

  Paul Provenza
  • State
  • Mexicans
  • Unified

• The separation of church and state has been a cornerstone of American democracy for over two hundred years. Getting rid of it was long overdue.

  

  Andy Borowitz
  • Church
  • State
  • Separation

• Inasmuch as every family is a part of a state, and these relationships are the parts of a family, and the virtue of the part must have regard to the virtue of the whole, women and children must be trained by education with an eye to the constitution, if the virtues of either of them are supposed to make any difference in the virtues of the state. And they must make a difference: for the children grow up to be citizens, and half the free persons in a state are women.

  

  Aristotle
  • Women
  • Children
  • Family

• The universe always moves from an ordered state to a disordered one; that a glass may fall to the ground and shatter yet you never see a broken glass reassemble itself and then jump back on the table.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Universe
  • State
  • Moves

• And here one must not that hatred is acquired just as much by means of good actions as by bad ones; and so, as I said above, if a prince wishes to maintain the state, he is often obliged not to be good; because whenever that group which you believe you need to support you is corrupted, whether it be the common people, the soldiers, or the nobles, it is to your advantage to follow their inclinations in order to satisfy them; and then good actions are your enemy.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Prince
  • State
  • Maintain

• The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state.

  

  Aristotle
  • Perfect
  • Virtue
  • Citizen

• There is no answer. That's what Buddhism says. The Void, oblivion, no answer. To be in that state is an enlightened state.

  

  Harry Dean Stanton
  • Answer
  • State
  • Buddhism

• It may pass for a maxim in State, that the administration cannot be placed in too few hands, nor the legislature in too many.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • State
  • Administration
  • Legislature

• In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible ; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Nature
  • State
  • Wrongdoing

• As we consider expanding options in this state, we must re-double our efforts to make sure that public schools in Tennessee are well-resourced and that Tennessee teachers and principals are the best and most celebrated in the business.

  

  Bill Lee
  • State
  • Schools
  • Efforts

• In the ideal State laws are few and simple, because they have been derived from certainties. In the corrupt State laws are many and confused, because they have been derived from uncertainties.

  

  Solon
  • Laws
  • Confused
  • State

• As long as Florida remains a swing state, Cuban exiles in Florida will remain a very powerful voting bloc.

  

  Joshua A. Tucker
  • State
  • Voting
  • Exiles

• Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional. Physical pain is a fact that comes with living, just as illness or financial woes or broken relationships are facts. But misery is a state of mind, a reaction to the facts, that can be controlled or altered by an act of will.

  

  Barbara
  • Pain
  • Financial
  • Broken

• A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.

  

  Sophocles
  • Man
  • State
  • Belongs

• Movies are always in a state of locomotion. You start with a general idea of how it should feel and then you find you've got a runaway train. You have to race to catch up: the movie is telling you what it wants to become, and when that happens there's no greater feeling.

  

  Dustin Hoffman
  • Movies
  • State
  • Locomotion

• A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Christian
  • State
  • Completion

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