State Quotes

• A state attacked by another which renews an old claim rarely yields it without a war: it prefers to defend its territory, as is always more honorable. But it may be advantageous to take the offensive, instead of awaiting the attack on the frontiers.

  

  Antoine-Henri Jomini
  • War
  • Defend
  • Territory

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Plato
  • Unity
  • State
  • Disunited

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Barry Long
  • State
  • Awareness
  • Consciouness

• 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 only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Freedom
  • State
  • Prisoner

• 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

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

  

  Henrik Ibsen
  • Fall
  • Religion
  • State

• There could be no issue between the Church and the State. The Church, as such, has nothing to do with political affairs. On the other hand, the State has nothing to do with the faith or inner organization of the Church.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Faith
  • Church
  • Organization

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Thus we cannot escape the fact that the world we know is constructed in order to see itself. This is indeed amazing. Not so much in view of what it sees, although this may appear fantastic enough, but in respect of the fact that it can see at all. But in order to do so, evidently it must first cut itself up into a least one state which sees, and at least one other state which is seen.

  

  George Spencer-Brown
  • World
  • State
  • Sees

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