State Quotes
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The whole worl's in a state o' chassis.
Sean O'Casey
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When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to be nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life.
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 safest way for a state is to lay down the rule that religion is comprised solely in the exercise of charity and justice, and that the rights of rulers in sacred, no less than in secular matters, should merely have to do with actions, but that every man should think what he likes and say what he thinks.
Baruch Spinoza
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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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The state should, I think, be called 'anesthesia.' This signifies insensibility.
William Thomas Green Morton
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I expect to see the State, which is in a position to calculate the marginal efficiency of capital-goods on long views and on the basis of the general social advantage, taking an ever greater responsibility for directly organizing investments.
John Maynard Keynes
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In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state.
Aristotle
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In the position of tension in which we are, between churchmanship and citizenship, our churchmanship is much freer than if we had better harmony between Church and State.
Anthony of Sourozh
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Until you have a child, it's very tempting to look at the state of the world and say, "To hell with it, in 50 years I won't be around anyway." But if you have a child you don't say that, because even if you're not around in 50 years, your children presumably will be, and maybe even their children. You think of yourself as responsible to future generations in a whole different way.
Marianne Williamson
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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.
Confucius
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Most persons think that a state in order to be happy ought to be large; but even if they are right, they have no idea of what is a large and what a small state.... To the size of states there is a limit, as there is to other things, plants, animals, implements; for none of these retain their natural power when they are too large or too small, but they either wholly lose their nature, or are spoiled.
Aristotle
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Why, since people must outnumber the minority that comprises the State and its oppressive forces, have they submitted so meekly to it?
Albert Meltzer
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To be mindfully engaged is the most natural, creative state we can be in.
Ellen Langer
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At this time in my life, I want to be giving to my relationships. And out of that, whatever work you do prospers because you have more to give. There's something very primal about giving birth. It puts you in a state of being very raw.
Nicole Kidman
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A state attacked by another which renews an old claim rarely yields it without a war: it prefers to defend its territory, as is always more honorable. But it may be advantageous to take the offensive, instead of awaiting the attack on the frontiers.
Antoine-Henri Jomini
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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.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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The route of the train of Israeli justice must take into account the Jewishness of the state.
Ayelet Shaked
