State Quotes

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The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it. — Murray Rothbard
War is the Health of the State. — Randolph Bourne
Washington...has become an alien city-state that rules America, and much of the rest of the world, in the way that Rome ruled the Roman Empire. — Richard J. Maybury
Modern war appears as a struggle led by all the State apparatuses and their general staffs against all men old enough to bear arms... — Simone Weil
Meanwhile the mind, from pleasure less, Withdraws into its happiness; The mind, that ocean where each kind Does straight its own resemblance find; Yet it… — Andrew Marvell
There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of… — Gertrude Jekyll
A garden should be in a constant state of fluid change, expansion, experiment, adventure; above all it should be an inquisitive, loving, but self-critical journey… — H E Bates
The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one… — Albert Camus
The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Peace /n/: A rare state which has only existed when a despot has been fearsome or strong enough to impose it. The image of your… — Boyd Rice
Unlike the boundaries of the sea by the shorelines, the "ocean of air" laps at the border of every state, city, town and home throughout… — L. Welch Pogue
The assertion that it is the intention of the German Reich to coerce the Austrian State is absurd! — Adolf Hitler
Love is that enviable state that knows no envy or vanity, only empathy and a longing to be greater than oneself.... — Joe McMahon
Arbitrary rule has its basis, not in the strength of the state or the chief, but in the moral weakness of the individual, who submits… — Friedrich Ratzel
A cheery relaxation is man's natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something… — Vernon Howard
Xs were used because there was no mass literacy - a state we are rapidly approaching once more. — Michael Jackson
The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God. — John F. Kennedy
The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world. — Benjamin Rush
Abundance is a state of mind, more than a reflection of wealth. — Judith Orloff
The emotional state that leads to achievements resembles that of a worshiper or the lover. — Albert Einstein

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