State Quotes
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Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.
Blaise Pascal
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Man must never be treated as a means to the end of the state, but always as an end within himself.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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.
Aristotle
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The state of the world calls out for poetry to save it.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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Ax: 100 Every thing doth naturally persevere in yt state in wch it is unlesse it bee interrupted by some externall cause, hence... [a] body once moved will always keepe ye same celerity, quantity & determination of its motion.
Isaac Newton
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Love is a state of temporary psychosis.
Sigmund Freud
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No state will be well administered unless the middle class holds sway.
Aristotle
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I'm excited how we're playing. I don't know if this team is capable of going deep into the state tournament, but I'll take my chances with them. I'm very much looking forward to see what we can do.
Frank Waters
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Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community, and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilisation.
Oscar Wilde
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This country is about history, and unless the Serbs in particular come to some understanding of this history, we cannot build a stable state.
Paddy Ashdown
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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.
Eric Gill
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The state is out of control, the state is on a spending binge, the state has to stop putting itself in a hole thats getting deeper and deeper and deeper.
Peter Ueberroth