Aesthetic Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

The state is not competent in artistic matters... When the state leaves us free, it will have carried out its duty.

— Gustave Courbet

Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.

— Bernard Berenson

The State governments possess inherent advantages, which will ever give them an influence and ascendancy over the National Government, and will for ever preclude…

— Alexander Hamilton

The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.

— Oscar Wilde

And I think musicians can better run this state than politicians. And, hell, beauticians can better run the state than politicians.

— Kinky Friedman

The social or economic structure of the ideal state is of little concern to me. My desires are modest. Portraits of the head of…

— Vladimir Nabokov

You see, greatness for a state doesn't require some huge monument for all to see. It is not a journey to a particular destination…

— Sonny Perdue

The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and…

— Tom Stoppard

The state is not an organism capable of bringing either moral or material improvements to the populace...but merely a vehicle of power for the…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

The government should cultivate the view also among the propertyless classes of the population, those who are the most numerous and the least educated,…

— Otto von Bismarck

I've seen the government up close and personal, and for the most part, it's inefficient and hidebound, and it stifles creativity in any industry…

— Homer Hickam

The eyes of mankind will be upon you to see whether the Government, which is now more popular than it has been for many…

— Samuel Adams