State Quotes

• 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

• Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or anything better than cohesion and unity?

  

  Plato
  • Unity
  • State
  • Disunited

• Every body persists in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces having impact upon it.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Rest
  • Body
  • Persists

• I'm always in a state of trance, I'm not very often in the real world.

  

  Emma Hewitt
  • State
  • Real World
  • Trance

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

  

  Sallust
  • State
  • Falls
  • Dissension

• Most persons think that a state in order to be happy ought to be large; but even if they are right, they have no idea of what is a large and what a small state.... To the size of states there is a limit, as there is to other things, plants, animals, implements; for none of these retain their natural power when they are too large or too small, but they either wholly lose their nature, or are spoiled.

  

  Aristotle
  • Happy
  • Idea
  • Persons

• An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Inspiration
  • Information
  • Artists

• Love is an intermediate state between possession and deprivation.

  

  Plato
  • Love Is
  • State
  • Deprivation

• 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

• Assimilation, a certain uniformity of conduct, is necessary in a multi-party state.This is not only a requirement to the established majority; it is also a requirement to the minorities themselves. Because, I repeat myself, a ghetto existence is not very nice.

  

  Norbert Elias
  • State
  • Ghetto
  • Assimilation

• The universal Law of Attraction states that we draw to us those people, events, and circumstances that match our inner state of being. In other words, we attract experiences that are consistent with our beliefs. If we believe that there is plenty of love in the world and we are worthy of giving and receiving that love, we will attract a different quality of relationships than someone who believes in scarcity or feels unworthy of happiness.

  

  Arielle Ford
  • Happiness
  • State
  • Attract

• 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 a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state.

  

  Aristotle
  • Arms
  • Citizen
  • Possess

• Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.

  

  Plato
  • State
  • Mathematics
  • Suitable

• 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

• Sometimes a great example is necessary to all the public functionaries of the state.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • State
  • Example
  • Public Functionaries

• You think, you become that thought. And consciousness, or the state of pure awareness, is lost.

  

  Barry Long
  • State
  • Awareness
  • Consciouness

• I expect to see the State, which is in a position to calculate the marginal efficiency of capital-goods on long views and on the basis of the general social advantage, taking an ever greater responsibility for directly organizing investments.

  

  John Maynard Keynes
  • Position
  • State
  • Marginal efficiency

• Every state protects the privileges of the powerful.

  

  Colin Ward
  • Powerful
  • State
  • Protects

• 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

• 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

• 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

• The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.

  

  Georges Bernanos
  • Rights
  • State
  • Duties

• 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

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