State Quotes

• The measure of the state's success is that the word anarchy frightens people, while the word state does not.

  

  Joseph Sobran
  • Success
  • State
  • Anarchy

• It is not the State that orders us; but it is we who order the State!

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Order
  • State

• 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.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Die
  • State
  • Political Necessity

• A State would be happy where philosophers were kings, or kings philosophers.

  

  Plato
  • State
  • Kings
  • Philosophers

• A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.

  

  Lord Byron
  • State
  • Scare
  • Ruins

• Yoga is more a state than a methodology. A state where there is nothing missing. You don't feel like you have to grab this or grab that in order to be complete or full. From wringing out the body and the mind, from sitting in meditation, from studying scripture, from selfless service.

  

  Colleen Saidman
  • Missing
  • Yoga
  • Nothing

• Let one state in the U.S. be free of government and overnight you would have an economic powerhouse.

  

  James Cook
  • Government
  • State
  • Powerhouse

• I believed what my father taught me about the separation of church and state, so when I was President I never invited Billy Graham to have services in the White House because I didn't think that was appropriate. He was injured a little bit, until I explained it to him.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Church
  • President
  • Billy Graham

• 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.

  

  George W Truett
  • Church
  • Religion
  • State

• 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.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Knowledge
  • Education
  • Training

• Perfection is some mythical state that we can never achieve

  

  Carrie Jones
  • Achieve
  • Perfection
  • Mythical

• 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.

  

  Anthony B Pinn
  • Church
  • State
  • Separation

• You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.

  

  Milton Friedman
  • Immigration
  • State
  • Welfare

• Our critique of Israel has to be about the state, not culture or religion, but the state of Israel.

  

  Aja Monet
  • Culture
  • Religion
  • State

• We are only troubled by the fears which we, and not nature, give ourselves, for they add to the state in which we are the passions of the state in which we are not.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Nature
  • Passions
  • Fears

• And truly, O man, if you concentrate hard on the state you are in it will be surprising if you have time for anything else.

  

  Bernard of Clairvaux
  • State
  • Concentrate
  • Surprising

• So there's only one tactic for the state: kill the seers.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Kill
  • State
  • Tactic

• Anarchists generally make use if the word "State" to mean all the collection of institutions, political, legislative, judicial, military, financial, etc., by means of which management of their own affairs, the guidance of their personal conduct, and the care of ensuring their own safety are taken from the people and confided to certain individuals, and these, whether by usurpation or delegation, are invested with the right to make laws over and for all, and to constrain the public to respect them, making use of the collective force of the community to this end.

  

  Errico Malatesta
  • Force
  • Safety
  • Management

• The whole world is an open, free market. No state can exist without the others.

  

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan
  • State
  • Exist
  • Free markets

• Boston is a state of mind.

  

  Thomas Gold Appleton
  • Mind
  • State
  • Boston

• We shouldn’t be closing schools because the heat doesn’t work … If we are getting money from the state we should be using it. We need every penny we can get.

  

  Catherine E. Pugh
  • Money
  • Schools
  • Heat

• We are not naughty children, and the state is not our parent.

  

  Heather Brooke
  • Parent
  • State
  • Naughty children

• Each state of life has its special duties; by their accomplishments one may find happiness.

  

  Nicholas of Flue
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • State

• 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.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Birth

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