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States Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
- Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars
- Patriotism is "a very definite feeling of preference for one's own people or State above all other peoples and States, and a consequent wish to…
- It would, therefore, seem obvious that patriotism as a feeling is bad and harmful, and as a doctrine is stupid. For it is clear that…
- The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens... Henceforth, I shall never…
- Understand then all of you, especially the young, that to want to impose an imaginary state of government on others by violence is not only…
- Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own
- In former times the chief method of justifying the use of violence and thereby infringing the law of love was by claiming a divine right…
- Christianity in its true sense puts an end to the State. It was so understood from its very beginning, and for that Christ was crucified.
- Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it not possible that this state…
- The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
- We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.
- If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's…
- Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges,…
- When politics and home life have become one and the same thing, [...] then,[...] it is evident that we will be in a state of…
- 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…
- Music makes me forget my real situation. It transports me into a state which is not my own. Under the influence of music I really…
- Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own: under the influence…
- Several times I asked myself, "Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it…
- 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…
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- 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