State Quotes

7915 State quotes by 4102 unique authors

God is dead, but considering the state the species man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will… — Friedrich Nietzsche
You were born into a state of grace. It is impossible for you to leave it. You will die in a state of grace whether… — Jane Roberts
In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
She tried to explain the real state of the case to her sister. "I do not attempt to deny," said she, "that I think very… — Jane Austen
Childhood is not a state which only applies to the first phase of our lives in the biological sense. Rather it is a basic condition… — Karl Rahner
I love this world," he added. "That is what rules my life. When I die, I want to have done all in my power to… — Charles de Lint
The word "feral" has a kind of magic potency which allied itself to two other words, "ferocious" and "free." To revert to a feral state! — T.H. White
Freedom is not defined by safety. Freedom is defined by the ability of citizens to live without government interference. Government cannot create a world without… — Ron Paul
I was lingering out on the pavement. There was a missing person inside of myself and I needed to find him . . . I… — Bob Dylan
In a certain state of mind, all trace of feeling is banished. Whenever I remain silent in a certain way, I don't love you, have… — Marguerite Duras
The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gift. — C.S. Lewis
There is no such thing as the State And no one exists alone; Hunger allows no choice To the citizen or the police; We must… — Wystan Hugh Auden
I do think that women could make politics irrelevant; by a kind of spontaneous cooperative action the like of which we have never seen; which… — Germaine Greer
There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says...it's payback time! — Jasper Fforde
Have we raised the threshold of horror so high that nothing short of a nuclear strike qualifies as a 'real' war? Are we to spend… — Arundhati Roy
... the state of rapture I experience when I read a wonderful book is one of the main reasons I read; but it doesn't happen… — Nora Ephron
The state we find ourselves in is sinful quite independent of guilt. — Franz Kafka
The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself. — William Blake
The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the… — Confucius
He was in a terrible state- that of consciousness. — Martin Amis
The state of ambiguity - that messy, greasy, mixed-up, confused, and awful situation you're living through right now - is enlightenment itself. — Brad Warner
One voice can change a room, and if one voice can change a room, then it can change a city, and if it can change… — Barack Obama
Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not. — Friedrich Nietzsche
When politics and home life have become one and the same thing, [...] then,[...] it is evident that we will be in a state of… — Leo Tolstoy
We ask God to endow human souls with justice so that they may be fair and may strive to provide for the comfort of all… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡

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