State Quotes
7915 State quotes by 4102 unique authors
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For democrats, it's as crucial to defend secular culture as to preserve secular law. And in fact the two projects are inseparable: When religion defines…
— Ellen Willis
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The Jews took Israel from the Arabs after the Arabs had lived there for a thousand years. Israel, like South Africa, is an apartheid state.
— Hendrik Verwoerd
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The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the same medium at different times; it must…
— Oliver Lodge
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It is only in times of social dissolution, as in the last age of the small Semitic states, when men and their gods were alike…
— William Robertson Smith
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Speaking biologically, fruit in a slightly shriveled state is holding its respiration and energy consumption down to the lowest possible level. It is like a…
— Masanobu Fukuoka
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In addition to the artistic influences, I am influenced by my current private life, my feelings about it and my energy level and state of…
— Frank Auerbach
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Undocumented immigrants produced $1.58 billion in state revenues, which exceeded the $1.16 billion in state services they received. However, local governments bore the burden of…
— Carole Keeton
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We talk about civilization as though it's a static state. There are no civilized people yet, it's a process that's constantly going on... As long…
— Jacque Fresco
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Every system tries to get people to conform to support that system. That goes for communism, socialism, free enterprise, or any other civilization. If they…
— Jacque Fresco
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In 1933-34, the Belgians conducted a census in order to issue ‘ethnic’ identity cards, which labelled every Rwandan as either Hutu (85%) of Tutsi (14%)…
— Philip Gourevitch
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Sleep is simply a chemical change in our brain and body (melatonin) - It?s not a place we go, it is a state of being…
— Bill Crawford
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Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another's state of mind.
— Bill Crawford
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THE ULTIMATE METAPHYSICAL SECRET, if we dare state it so simply, is that there are no boundaries in the universe. Boundaries are illusions, products not…
— Ken Wilber
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I can’t reveal the mystery to either saint or sinner; I can’t state at length what I’ve said curtly; I achieve an altered state that…
— Omar Khayyam
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Once one concedes that a single world government is not necessary, then where does one logically stop at the permissibility of separate states? If Canada…
— Murray Rothbard
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The natural tendency of the state is inflation.
— Murray Rothbard
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The greatest danger to the State is independent intellectual criticism.
— Murray Rothbard
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The State is, and always has been, the great single enemy of the human race, its liberty, happiness, and progress.
— Murray Rothbard
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The absolute rule of the state shall be a function of the absolute liberty of each individual will.
— Aleister Crowley
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At what point do the people tell the politicians to go to hell? At what point do they get off the couch, march down to…
— Erick Erickson
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It has been a privilege beyond belief for me to have represented the State of Louisiana in Congress and to have been given the blessed…
— Lindy Boggs
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Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
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A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
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Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
— Anton Chekhov
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One could say that Osama bin Laden and these non-nation-state fighters with religious purpose are very similar to those kind of atypical revolutionaries that helped…
— Marcy Kaptur
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