State Quotes

7915 State quotes by 4102 unique authors

Regardless of the overall state of the economy, there is now a large enough elite made up of new multi-millionaires and billionaires for Wall Street… — Naomi Klein
But the economic meltdown should have undone, once and for all, the idea of poverty as a personal shortcoming or dysfunctional state of mind. The… — Barbara Ehrenreich
If middle-class Americans do not feel threatened by the slow encroachment of the police state or the Patriot Act, it is because they live comfortably… — Joe Bageant
In this game he had acquired a great deal of muddled knowledge, more than one approximation and less than one certitude. And absence of energy,… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
But while everything around us seems to be in a constant state of flux- people at their very core remained exactly the same. All of… — Alyson Noel
Thereâ€™s no condition one adjusts to so quickly as a state of war. — Alice Sebold
Achieving the state of SABLE is not, as many people who live with these knitters believe, a reason to stop buying yarn, but for the… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
I'm never nervous when I go to meet heads of state. I feel they should be nervous, because they are the ones who'll be held… — Unknown Author
The story of terrorism is written by the state and it is therefore highly instructiveâ€¦ compared with terrorism, everything else must be acceptable, or in… — Guy Debord
Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness. — Peter Singer
The kind of hope that I often think aboutâ€¦I understand above all as a state of mind, not a state of the world. Either we… — Vaclav Havel
Let me first state forthright that contrary to what we've often read in books and heard from preachers, when you are a woman, you don't… — Orhan Pamuk
Strictly enforce the scale of "fixed responsibility." The first and foremost level of responsibility is with the individual himself; the second level is the family;… — W. Cleon Skousen
I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear! — Jules Verne
The perfect fascist state needs to operate in conditions of perpetual warfare. Have you ever noticed how the world has been in constant crisis since… — Grant Morrison
High school is neither a democracy nor a dictatorship - nor, contrary to popular belief, an anarchic state. High school is a divine-right monarchy. And… — John Green
The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I… — Soren Kierkegaard
She was in that highly-wrought state when the reasoning powers act with great rapidity: the state a man is in before a battle or a… — Leo Tolstoy
Octoberâ€” You were sleeping so peacefully that I was loath to wake you. Duke Torquill, after demanding to know what I was doing in your… — Mira Grant
When the State withers, humanity flowers. — Anthony Burgess

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