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State Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Big Business and State Socialism are very much alike, especially Big Business.
- There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present…
- It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
- The position we have now reached is this: starting from the State, we try to remedy the failures of all the families, all the nurseries,…
- Though the academic authorities are actually proud of conducting everything by means of Examinations, they seldom indulge in what religious people used to descibe as…
- Only men to whom the family is sacred will ever have a standard or a status by which to criticize the State. They alone can…
- Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when Joy is the fundamental thing in him, and Grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent…
- All good writers express the state of their souls, even (as occurs in some cases of very good writers) if it is a state of…
- The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church
- The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but,…
- For Tommy, on that hot and empty afternoon, was in a state of mind in which grown-up people go away and write books about their…
- The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can…
More State Quotes
- A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state. — Aristotle
- The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is… — Dean Acheson
- To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment. — Jane Austen
- We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law. — Mahmoud Abbas
- O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue… — Teresa of Avila
- In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal.… — Teresa of Avila