State Quotes
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If you see distraction externally, you end up creating an internally distracted state.
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Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a state might be composed of slaves, or the animal creation... nor is it an alliance mutually to defend each other from injuries, or for a commercial intercourse. But whosoever endeavors to establish wholesome laws in a state, attends to the virtues and vices of each individual who composes it; from whence it is evident, that the first care of him who would found a city, truly deserving that name, and not nominally so, must be to have his citizens virtuous.
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The state of the world calls out for poetry to save it.
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Nothing is important save the spiritual state that enables one to subjectify one's thoughts to a sensation and to think only of the sensation, all the while searching to express it.
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The world will not evolve past its current state of crisis by using the same thinking that created the situation.
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But obviously a state which becomes progressively more and more of a unity will cease to be a state at all. Plurality of numbers is natural in a state; and the farther it moves away from plurality towards unity, the less of a state it becomes and the more a household, and the household in turn an individual.
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It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.
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...one Greek city state had a fundamental law: anyone proposing revisions to the constitution did so with a noose around his neck. If his proposal lost he was instantly hanged.
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It is encouraging to see our home state of Washington at the forefront of legislation and enforcement on these important consumer protection issues.
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That state is a state of slavery in which a man does what he likes to do in his spare time and in his working time that which is required of him.
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Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and the State in which they are most eager, the worst.
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In a State, pecuniary gain is not to be considered to be prosperity, but its prosperity will be found in righteousness.
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Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.
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When I took the job, we spoke about pursuing a liberal economic policy. Now, the state has evolved in quite the opposite direction.
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This Congress is serious about doing everything we can to help local, state and federal officials respond to this crisis.
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To let them share in the highest offices is to take a risk; inevitably, their unjust standards will cause them to commit injustice, and their lack of judgement will lead them into error. On the other hand there is a risk in not giving them a share, and in their non participation, for when there are many who have no property and no honours they inevitably constitute a huge hostile element in the state. But it can still remain open to them to participate in deliberating and judging.
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Marriage is going to be that happy state in which we get all of the nurturance and care and love and empathy and even good advice that we didn't receive from our families.
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Satisfaction isn't a state that comes easily to me.
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The rearing of children is considered too important to be left to the individual and should be the responsibility of the state.
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I would say you feel a lot more pressure at a national tournament than a state tournament. This is more of a fun weekend out with the guys. The national tournament is more business.
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If we are to assume that North Korea becomes a nuclear-power state, of course the danger of having an all-out nuclear war, that possibility is very slim.
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I try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.
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Y’all pray for VA they just shut down the whole city till June. Thank God my family is straight. But praying for the state as a whole .
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From the loving example of one family a whole State may become loving, and from its courtesies, courteous; while from the ambition and perverseness of the one man the whole State may be thrown into rebellious disorder. Such is the nature of influence.
