State Quotes

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The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp. — John Boyd Orr
When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can… — Dalai Lama
In contrast, compassion manifests in us as the offering of kindness rather than withdrawal. Because compassion is a state of mind that is itself open,… — Sharon Salzberg
It's a very dangerous state. You are inclined to recklessness and kind of tune out the rest of your life and everything that's been important… — Colin Firth
The point is seeing that THIS - the immediate, everyday and present experience - is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of… — Alan Watts
Character is the only secure foundation of the state. — Calvin Coolidge
The basis of a democratic state is liberty — Aristotle
Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got his laugh on… — Max Eastman
When you really laugh, for those few moments you are in a deep meditative state. Thinking stops. It is impossible to laugh and think together...If… — Rajneesh
When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called LOVE is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when… — Miles Franklin
I understood that you would take the Human Race in the concrete, have exploded the absurd notion of Pope's Essay on Man, [Erasmus] Darwin, and… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It is with our entire past ... that we desire, will and act ... from this survival of the past it follows that consciousness cannot… — Henri Bergson
The question now at issue, whether the living species are connected with the extinct by a common bond of descent, will best be cleared up… — Charles Lyell
In China the struggle to consolidate the socialist system, the struggle to decide whether socialism or capitalism will prevail, will still take a long historical… — Mao Zedong
After the countrywide victory of the Chinese revolution and the solution of the land problem, two basic contradictions will still exist in China. The first… — Mao Zedong
"Don't you want to abolish state power?" Yes, we do, but not right now. We cannot do it yet. Why? Because imperialism still exists, because… — Mao Zedong
All play aspires to the condition of paradise...through play in all its forms...we hope to achieve a state that our larger Greco-Roman, Judeo- Christian culture… — A. Bartlett Giamatti
If we lived in a state where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us saintly. But since we see that avarice, anger, pride and… — Thomas More
In my mind, he was guilty of no error - he was chargeable with no exaggeration - he was betrayed by his fancy into no… — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fame even, we are mortal; but in dealing… — Henry David Thoreau

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