State Quotes
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Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act.
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The state has no wealth it hasn't stolen, and the state has no assets whatsoever, except those which individuals have created in the first place and the state has taken.
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Perfection is some mythical state that we can never achieve
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That utterance of Jesus, "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's," is one of the most revolutionary and history-making utterances that ever fell from those lips divine. That utterance, once and for all, marked the divorcement of church and state. It marked a new era for the creeds and deeds of men.
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Churches can easily bring together, in a short period of time, a substantial number of people, and politicians have to assume that these folks have the potential to vote. Although there's supposed to be a separation of church and state, they want to go to these churches to say hello to the people, and they assume their hello might turn into votes.
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When men enter into the state of marriage, they stand nearest to God.
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The State is the coldest of all cold monsters.
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Dad built houses and when they were sold, he moved on to a new town, so I know a lot about my native state.
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Every chemical reaction has a transition state.
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To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.
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The folkish state must not adjust its entire educational work primarily to the inoculation of mere knowledge, but to the breeding of absolutely healthy bodies. The training of mental abilities is only secondary.
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A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition.
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Youth is not a time of life - it is a state of mind.
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Our critique of Israel has to be about the state, not culture or religion, but the state of Israel.
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To any mental state there corresponds a physical condition.
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The measure of the state's success is that the word anarchy frightens people, while the word state does not.
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Each state of life has its special duties; by their accomplishments one may find happiness.
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The notion that the church, the press, and the universities should serve the state is essentially a Communist notion. In a free society these institutions must be wholly free – which is to say that their function is to serve as checks upon the state.
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What do you mean, 'playing really creatively'? Can you give me an example?" "Hmm, let's see ... you send the music deep enough into your heart so that it makes your body undergo a kind of a physical shift, and simultaneously the listener's body also undergoes the same kind of physical shift. It's giving birth to that kind of shared state. Probably.
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Government is the most successful idea in the world, but for all its success and importance it is something imperfect. There is no ideal state. After thousands of years it is still a mixture of good and evil.
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There can be no rule of God in the present state of iniquitous inequalities in which a few roll in riches and the masses do not get enough to eat.
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If fifty thousand men were to die for the good of the State, I certainly would weep for them, but political necessity comes before everything else.
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Constantine, the Emperor, saw something in the religion of Christ's people which awakened his interest, and now we see him uniting religion to the state and marching up the marble steps of the Emperor's palace, with the church robed in purple. Thus and there was begun the most baneful misalliance that ever fettered and cursed a suffering world... When ... Constantine crowned the union of church and state, the church was stamped with the spirit of the Caesars.
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Morality is more dependent on the state of one's stomach than of one's nation.
