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States Quotes by Wystan Hugh Auden
- Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.
- If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that…
- All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is therefore not at all a desirable quality in a…
- The masculine imagination lives in a state of perpetual revolt against the limitations of human life. In theological terms, one might say that all men,…
- The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience.
- There is no such thing as the State And no one exists alone; Hunger allows no choice To the citizen or the police; We must…
- All I have is a voice to undo the folded lie, the romantic lie in the brain of the sensual man-in-the-street and the lie of…
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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