State Quotes

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Pension: An allowance made to anyone without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason… — Samuel Johnson
As I had once done thus in my breaking away from my Parents, so I could not be content now, but I must go and… — Daniel Defoe
Peace, like freedom, is no original state which existed from the start; we shall have to make it, in the truest sense of the word. — Willy Brandt
The fusion (of economic functions) would compel nations to fuse their sovereignty into that of a single European State. — Jean Monnet
We have become convinced that it is better to avoid such symbolic disguisings of the truth in what we tell children and not to withhold… — Sigmund Freud
Man represses the irrational passions of destructiveness, hate, envy, revenge; he worships power, money, the sovereign state, the nation; while he pays lip service to… — Erich Fromm
The third error leading to the assumption that there is nothing to be learned about love lies in the confusion between the initial experience of… — Erich Fromm
The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom. — Viktor E. Frankl
In this state one enriches everything out of one's own fullness: whatever one sees, whatever wills is seen swelled, taut, strong, overloaded with strength. A… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Our Nation, a great stage for the acting out of great thoughts, presents the classic confrontation between Locke's views of the state of nature and… — Allan Bloom
When we of the so-called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when we put off… — William James
The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal justice under law, but also of due process.… — Burke Marshall
Instead of the international police action we had hoped for during the war in Kosovo, there are wars again - conducted with state-of-the-art technology, but… — Jurgen Habermas
The existence of the state is inseparable from the existence of slavery. — Karl Marx
The French need a thrashing. If the Prussians win, the centralisation of the state power will be useful for the centralisation of the German working… — Karl Marx
The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie. — Karl Marx
Even an entire society, a nation, or all simultaneously existing societies taken together, are not owners of the earth. They are simply its possessors, its… — Karl Marx
Political institutions, no matter how well or badly designed, depend for continued existence upon acting men; their conservation is achieved by the same means that… — Hannah Arendt
Only thought is capable of inventing the fiction of a State that is universal by right, of elevation the State to the level of de… — Gilles Deleuze
You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along. — Aristophanes

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