Crush Quote by Paul Valery Download Open image “If the state is strong, it crushes us. If it is weak, we perish.” — Paul Valery ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Crush Ifs States Strong Weak
Our idea is that a state is strong when the people are politically conscious. It is strong when the people know everything, can form… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
States would be wise to weaken sovereignty in order to protect themselves. — Richard N. Haass Copy Share Image
Even if we are all doomed to live under the state, it doesn't follow that there is, or even can be, such a thing… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
America is stronger than any state probably since the Roman Empire. But we can't do what used to be done with that kind of… — Brent Scowcroft Copy Share Image
A private man, however successful in his own dealing, if his country perish is involved in her destruction; but if he be an unprosperous… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
It can be dangerous to weaken the strong in our attempts to strengthen the weak. — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the eyes of those lovers of perfection, a work is never finished a word that for them has no sense but abandoned; and… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“O Socrates, the universe cannot for one instant endure to be only what it is. It is strange to think that that which is… — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the soul, when alone with itself and speaking to itself, uses only a small number of words, none of… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“I am now going to make an admission. I confess, I agree, that all these good people who protested, who laughed, who did not… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“Degas is one of the very few painters who have given the floor its true importance.” — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
The most ridiculous were those who, on their own authority, made themselves the judges and justices of the tribe. They seemed never to suspect… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Thought must be hidden in the verse like nutritional virtue in a fruit. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Mortals are such fragile things. Just tender feelings walking around exposed in their delicate shells...Easy to crush. — Melissa Marr Copy Share Image
Each child’s story is worthy of telling. There shouldn’t be a sliding scale of death. The weight of it is crushing. — Anderson Cooper Copy Share Image
I had to smile when stories emerged questioning whether I was gay. Obviously I knew I wasn't but people were curiously desperate to suggest… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
I already know that u know that I like u, the question is Wat r u going to do with that information. — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
“My mom believed that you make your own luck. Over the stove she had hung these old, maroon painted letters that spell out, “MANIFEST.”… — Emmy Laybourne Copy Share Image
I'm very disturbed to find out that the leader of the Townies has a soul and I'm beginning to develop a bit of a… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
My dream would be to hear rocks at my window n to look out and see u just standing there, in the pouring rain. — Blondie Copy Share Image
Tireless passion, fierce jealousy, longing to possess and crush-these alone were left of all his love for Rosalind; these remained to him as payment… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
...It's an unmeetable level of writing. But even if it's something I feel like I can't ever attain, it doesn't crush my spirit. I… — Paul Banks Copy Share Image
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. With this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degradation… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
