State Quotes

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Resolved to ruin or to rule the state. — John Dryden
Perhaps there is a degree of perception at which what is real and what is imagines are one: a state of clairvoyant observation, accessible or… — Wallace Stevens
There is no doubt that sorrow brings one down in the world. The aristocratic privilege of silence belongs, you soon find out, to only the… — Elizabeth Bowen
Only one in command: that's the way in the home And the way in the state when it must find Measures best for mankind. — Euripides
For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions, largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to… — Rudyard Kipling
A state is not a state if it belongs to one man. — Sophocles
It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be… — Sophocles
Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculable outcome. It is not his destiny that awaits for him, nor his own death,… — Jean Baudrillard
Some day there is going to be a man sitting in my present chair who has not been raised in the military services and who… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
To be black and conscious in America is to be in a constant state of rage. — James A. Baldwin
A man who deals in fairness with his own, he can make manifest justice in the state. — Sophocles
Every human feeling is greater and larger than its exciting cause-a proof, I think, that man is designed for a higher state of existence. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I have always thought of government as a kind of organism with an insatiable appetite for money, whose natural state is to grow forever unless… — Ronald Reagan
T]he state Republican chairman, Gaylord Parkinson, postulated what he called the Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican. — Ronald Reagan
How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all. — Blaise Pascal
Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of… — Allen Tate
The mind that has not been developed or trained is very scattered. That's the normal state of affairs, but it leaves us out of touch… — Jon Kabat-Zinn
This life as a simple citizen and laborer has its benefits not only for the person himself but perhaps also for his country. After all,… — David Ben-Gurion
We are in love with the word. We are proud of it. The word precedes the formation of the state. The word comes to us… — Norman Mailer
Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind… — Gunter Grass
We weed out the darnel from the corn and the unfit in war, but do not excuse evil men from the service of the state. — Antisthenes
My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it… — William S. Burroughs
When the people are too much attached to savage independence, to be tolerant of the amount of power to which it is for their good… — John Stuart Mill
The right to have a slave implies the right in some one to make the slave; that right must be equal and mutual, and this… — William H. Seward
Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated… — Isadora Duncan

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