State Quotes
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If we close our eyes to the dark sides of the workers' State which we have helped to create, we shall never reach socialism.
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Each state claims the right to control interests foreign to itself when those interests are such that it can control them without putting its own interests in danger. ... other powers only recognize this right of intervening in proportion as the country doing it has the power to do it.
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The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.
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The first essential responsibility of the state is control of the market-place: there must be some official charged with the duty of seeing that honest dealing and good order prevail. For one of the well-nigh essential activities of all states is the buying and selling of goods to meet their mutual basic needs; this is the quickest way to self-sufficiency, which seems to be what moves men to combine under a single constitution.
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Under my plan, the state will be there to carry out the will of the people, not to dictate to them or to force them to do its will.
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It is rare and very inspiring that a head of state would make such an investment of time to write a book like this. It is a fine gift to the judokas of the world as well as to those of Russia...Vladimir Putin Sensei and his co-writers have established themselves as gifted writers and contributors to the judo world.
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Having gathered all power to itself, the State has become the sole focus of all conflict, and it must construct totalitarian defences to match its total exposure.
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The State is made for Mankind, not mankind for the state.
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Sparta must be regarded as the first völkisch state. The exposure of the sick, weak, deformed children, in short, their destruction, was more decent and in truth a thousand times more human than the wretched insanity of our day which preserves the most pathological subject.
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The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
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A state of true and universal tolerance is best ensured by leaving alone the peculiarities of men and peoples.
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England would be better off without Canada; it keeps her in a prepared state for war at a great expense and constant irritation.
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There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched.
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When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a constitution.
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The State dominates the Nation because it alone represents it.
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Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property.
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The damage identified in the requested counties is not beyond the combined capabilities of the state and affected local governments
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Every community is an association of some kind and every community is established with a view to some good; for everyone always acts in order to obtain that which they think good. But, if all communities aim at some good, the state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a greater degree than any other, and at the highest good.
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The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off, but the will of even a common man cannot be taken from him.
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There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?
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Towards the outside, at any rate, the ego seems to maintain clear and sharp lines of demarcation. There is only one state – admittedly an unusual state, but not one that can be stigmatized as pathological – in which it does not do this. At the height of being in love the boundary between ego and object threatens to melt away. Against all the evidence of his senses, a man who is in love declares that "I" and "you" are one, and is prepared to behave as if it were a fact.
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New Hampshire has always been a good state.
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Science produces an incomparably lyrical state in this man.
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For there is hardly a state or nation in existence which has not once had the misfortune, even if it was in the right a thousand times over, to be defeated by a stronger opponent or a stronger coalition.