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States Quotes by Carl Sagan
- Imagine a room awash in gasoline, and there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has nine thousand matches. The other has…
- Religions are often state-protected nurseries of pseudoscience, although there's no reason why religions have to play that role. In a way, it's an artefact from…
- The Bill of Rights decoupled religion from the state, in part because so many religions were steeped in an absolutist frame of mind - each…
- Every thinking person fears nuclear war, and every technological state plans for it. Everyone knows it is madness, and every nation has an excuse
- For me, the most ironic token of [the first human moon landing] is the plaque signed by President Richard M. Nixon that Apollo 11 took…
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- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state. — Aristotle
- The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. — Richard Bach
- I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings of all… — Richard Armitage
- Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States. — Karen Armstrong
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business. — Chester A. Arthur