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States Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.
- The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.
- In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born; that they are…
- The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work-declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. Nothing is beneath you, if…
- Science always goes abreast with the just elevation of the man, keeping step with religion and metaphysics; or, the state of science is an index…
- Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. In the divided or social state these functions are parcelled out to individuals, each…
- Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the…
- Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed…
- The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservation and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the…
- Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of…
- Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and that state of…
- We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own…
- Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.
- The State must follow, and not lead, the character and progress of the citizen.
- We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with…
- In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the…
- The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,—a good finger,…
- It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.
- The State is our neighbors; our neighbors are the State.
- The State is a poor, good beast who means the best: it means friendly.
- When fear enters the heart of a man at hearing the names of candidates and the reading of laws that are proposed, then is the…
- You cannot hide any secret. If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as the effect of…
- I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must get rid of slavery or…
- The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters, - a…
- Fear, Craft and Avarice Cannot rear a State.
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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