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State Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death.…
- All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to…
- It [the State] has taken on a vast mass of new duties and responsibilities; it has spread out its powers until they penetrate to every…
- The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him.
- The State is not force alone. It depends upon the credulity of man quite as much as upon his docility. Its aim is not merely…
- The State doesn't just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.
- The state remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men.
- The chief difference between free capitalism and State socialism seems to be this: that under the former a man pursues his own advantage openly, frankly…
- To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
- Public opinion, in its raw state, gushes out in the immemorial form of the mob's fear. It is piped into central factories, and there it…
- The argument that capital punishment degrades the state is moonshine, for if that were true then it would degrade the state to send men to…
- To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.
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