State Quotes
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All things are in a state of flux.
Heraclitus
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History shows that when a state is intent upon making war against another state, even though not adjacent, it begins to seek frontiers across which it could reach the frontiers of the state which it desires to attack. Usually, the aggressive state finds that frontier.
Joseph Stalin
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The state has no wealth it hasn't stolen, and the state has no assets whatsoever, except those which individuals have created in the first place and the state has taken.
Andrew Joseph Galambos
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Nobody in media and journalism knows more about 'deep state' than I do.
Mike Cernovich
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The authors of Job and Ecclesiastes explicitly state that there is no afterlife.
Bart Ehrman
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I'm always in a state of trance, I'm not very often in the real world.
Emma Hewitt
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In Egypt, a civil state means a modern nationalist state that is compatible with Islamist provisions.
Ali Gomaa
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State is the nation socially organized.
Antonio de Oliveira Salazar
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Every state protects the privileges of the powerful.
Colin Ward
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Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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That utterance of Jesus, "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's," is one of the most revolutionary and history-making utterances that ever fell from those lips divine. That utterance, once and for all, marked the divorcement of church and state. It marked a new era for the creeds and deeds of men.
George W Truett
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It is not the ownership of the instruments of production which it is important for the State to assume. If the State is able to determine the aggregate amount of resources devoted to augmenting the instruments and the basic rate of reward to those who own them, it will have accomplished all that is necessary. Moreover, the necessary measures of socialization can be introduced gradually and without a break in the general traditions of society.
John Maynard Keynes
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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.
Aristotle
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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.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The State idea is not according to my heart. I cannot understand why it is needed. It is connected with narrow-minded and economic obstacles. I believe it is bad. I have always been against it.
Albert Einstein
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For peace and brotherhood, I am ready to serve the Turkish state, and I believe that for this end I must remain alive.
Abdullah Ocalan
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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.
Adolf Hitler
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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.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Solid state I don't like, even though I started it.
Wolfgang Paul
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The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state.
Aristotle
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Whatever the State saith is a lie; whatever it hath is a theft: all is counterfeit in it, the gnawing, sanguinary, insatiate monster.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Love is an intermediate state between possession and deprivation.
Plato
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A small state increases by concord; the greatest falls gradually to ruin by dissension.
Sallust
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Science produces an incomparably lyrical state in this man.
Ernest Solvay