State Quotes
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Now what is just and right is to be interpreted in the sense of 'what is equal'; and that which is right in the sense of being equal is to be considered with reference to the advantage of the state, and the common good of the citizens. And a citizen is one who shares in governing and being governed. He differs under different forms of government, but in the best state he is one who is able and willing to be governed and to govern with a view to the life of virtue.
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Seeing too much to deny and too little to be sure, I am in a state to be pitied.
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Actors are as anxious about the state of audiences as aviators are over weather conditions.
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Generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties, says what the states can't do to you, says what the federal government can't do to you. But it doesn't say what the state or federal government must do on your behalf.
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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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Some princes, so as to hold securely the state, have disarmed their subjects, others have kept their subject towns distracted by factions...Our forefathers, and those who were reckoned wise, were accustomed to say that it was necessary to hold Pistoia [an Italian city] by factions and Pisa by fortress, and with this idea they fostered quarrels in some of their tributary towns so as to keep possession of them the more easily.
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Neither should we forget the mean, which at the present day is lost sight of in perverted forms of government; for many practices which appear to be democratical are the ruin of democracies, . . Those who think that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state.
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Art is contemplation of the world in a state of grace and imaginatively reflecting that subjective understanding.
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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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Language is in the way. Music's in the way. Songs are in the way. Stuff's in the way. That's just our state here. And to acknowledge that we're broken and to even ... create tradition that helps us embrace that, and to understand that, I think is a very healthy, good thing.
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You mean in the state?
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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.
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Max was very concerned that this hurricane was going to cross the state, that the winds were going to go far inland.
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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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If you live in Birmingham, then being awake is not necessarily a desirable state.
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The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
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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.
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In the perfect state the good man is absolutely the same as the good citizen; whereas in other states the good citizen is only good relatively to his own form of government.
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For after all, a poster does more than simply supply information on the goods it advertises; it also reveals a society’s state of mind
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A matter which would be easily accomplished, as the best men of that State have already offered themselves to me.
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It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.
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And I think musicians can better run this state than politicians. And, hell, beauticians can better run the state than politicians.
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Today the predatory state, or the predatory group of states, with power of total destruction, is no more to be tolerated than the predatory individual.
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What the Negro wants - and will not stop until he gets - is absolute and unqualified freedom and equality here in this land of his birth, and not in Africa or in some imaginary state. The Negro no longer will be tolerant of anything less than his due right and heritage. He is pursuing only that which he knows is honorably his. He knows that he is right.
