State Quotes

7915 State quotes by 4102 unique authors

Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death. — Benjamin Franklin
Love is the state of enlightenment and enlightenment is the state of love. You can't make any separation between them. Enlightenment is the state of… — Barry Long
A man's wife has more power over him than the state has. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes", And "Can you state… — Aaron Copland
Hipness is not a state of mind, It's a fact of life! — Cannonball Adderley
Is there a meaning to music? Yes. Can you state in so many words what the meaning is? No. — Aaron Copland
Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state. — Ira Gershwin
Will this massive outcry [about pollution] continue long enough to have effective results? Will federal and state laws be enacted with effective enforcement clauses? Will… — Malcolm Forbes
The last step in parental love involves the release of the beloved; the willing cutting of the cord that would otherwise keep the child in… — Lewis Mumford
Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we… — Thomas Paine
The time is fast approaching when to call a man a patriot will be the deepest insult you can offer him. Patriotism now means advocating… — Leo Tolstoy
The plain truth is that what holds a free state together is neither general will nor a common interest, but simply politics itself. — Bernard Crick
I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear.… — Roger Ebert
Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the… — Hannah Arendt
Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown. — John Buchan
If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of… — Margaret Mead
Anxiety is the illness of our age. We worry about ourselves, our family, our friends, our work, and our state of the world. If we… — Nhat Hanh
"Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem to characterize our age. If we desire sincerely and passionately the safety, the welfare and the free… — Albert Einstein
Most people think of peace as a state of Nothing Bad Happening, or Nothing Much Happening. Yet if peace is to overtake us and make… — Elwyn Brooks White
Writing poetry is a state of free float. — Margaret Atwood
If you do have to look at polls, you should do it no more than once every few days, to get a general sense of… — David Brooks
Diplomacy is living in state. — Oliver Herford
The State calls its own violence, law; but that of the individual, crime — Max Stirner
At bottom, every state regards another as a gang of robbers who will fall upon it as soon as there is an opportunity. — Arthur Schopenhauer
But obviously a state which becomes progressively more and more of a unity will cease to be a state at all. Plurality of numbers is… — Aristotle

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