state quotes
Boston is a state of mind.
Man is by nature a political animal; it is his nature to live in a state.
If absolute sovereignty be not necessary in a State, how comes it to be so in a family?
But if marriage be such a blessed state, how comes it, may you say, that there are so few happy marriages? Now in answer to this, is it not to be wondered that so few succeed, we should rather be surprized to find so manydo, considering how imprudently menengage, the motive they act by, and the very strange conduct they observe throughout.
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 love one another or die.
Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.
Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
In the youth of a state arms do flourish; in the middle age of a state, learning; and then both of them together for a time; in the declining age of a state, mechanical arts and merchandise.
The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else.
I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.
Into that sad obscure sequestered state Where God unmakes but to remake the soul He else made first in vain; which must not be.
A state withoutthemeans of some change iswithout the means of its conservation.
I stood inVenice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand: I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand: A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when manya subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, WhereVenice sate in state, thron'd on her hundred isles!
Toutes les re volutions modernes ont abouti a' un renforcement de l'Etat. All modernrevolutionshave ended in a reinforcement of the State.
California, the department-store state. The most of everything and the best of nothing.
It will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement. I cannot be asked to miss it in my weak state. I should only fret.
The discumbered Atlas of the state.
The state, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions.If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.
President Bushseems to think that the ship [of state] will be saved by imperceptible undercurrents, directed by the invisible hand of some cyclical economic god, that will gradually move the ship so that at the last moment it will miraculously glide past the rocks to safer shores.
As I am a woman and women do not count in the State, I refuse to be counted. Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
Dost thou not know that love respects no blood, Cares not for difference of birth or state?
For God's sake, hold your tongue, and let me love, Or chide my palsy, or my gout, My five grey hairs, or ruined fortune flout, With wealth your state, your mind with arts improve, Take you a course, get you a place, Observe his honour, or his grace, Or the King's real, or his stamped face Contemplate; what you will, approve, So you will let me love.
In friendship false, implacable in hate: Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.
Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
Der Staat wird nicht 'abgeschafft', er stirbt ab. The state is not 'abolished'; it withers away.
The society that will organize production on the basis of a free and equal association of the producers will put the whole machinery of the state where it will then belong: into the museum of antiquities, by the side of the spinning wheel and the bronze axe.
Summoning artists to participate In the august occasions of the state Seems something artists ought to celebrate.
It does mean the end of Britain as an independent European state. It means the end of a thousand years of history.
The line dividing the state from what is called private enterprise, orat least fromthehighlyorganized part of it, is a traditional fiction.
It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.
In everyage and country, the wiser, or at least the stronger, ofthetwosexes, hasusurped thepowers ofthe state, and confined the other to the cares and pleasures of domestic life.
That state is a state of Slavery in which a man does what he likes to do in his spare time and in his working time that which is required of him.
All thistime [San Francisco, from1955] Irealized we were involved as a community with a historical change of consciousness and some kind of cultural revolution I thought it wasreally insomerespects a contest between further liberation or1984 authoritarianism, police state; that it was creeping police state or creeping socialism- libertarianism.
Ruin seize thee, ruthless King! Confusion on thy banners wait, Tho'fanned by Conquest's crimson wing They mock the air with idle state.
The more the state'plans'the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.
The church must be reminded that it is not the master or servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state.
The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.
Nothing has conduced more to shake that decent respect for the living symbol of thestatethat goes by the name of royalty than the ever-recurring rattle of the money box.
IfAmericans do not succeed in engineering an economic revival, we can look forward to being remembered as, of all the nations that have prospered and declined, the one that has done so in the highest state of self-awareness.
It is portentous, and a thing of state That here at midnight, in our little town A mourning figure walks, and will not rest, Near the old courthouse pacing up and down.
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world. He that has those two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them will be little the better for anything else. See Juvenal 453:20.
Thou, too, sail on,O Ship of State! Sail on,O UNION, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate!
Everyone knows how much trouble your meetings have caused in my State, and how many dangerous results they have had. I have learnt that you intend to continue them.Ihave comehere expressly toforbid youto dothis, which I do absolutely.
L'EŁ tat, c'est moi. I am the State.
The most desirable mental state for a potential consumeris a kind of free-floating anxietyand depression, combined with a nice collection of unrealistic goals and desires.
While I cannot take time off to name all the men in the State Department whohavebeennamedasmembers of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring, I have here in my hand a list of 205 that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party, and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department.
The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor istoil that never finishes, toil that hastobe begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.
Liberty, asit is conceived bycurrent opinion, hasnothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.
Das Seelische [ist] immer das Prim a« re und eigentlich Motivierende; die politischeAktion ist zweiterOrdnung, Reflex, Ausdruck, Instrument. The mental state is always the primaryand ultimately the motivating state.Political actionis ofsecond rank, reflex, expression, instrument.
But just think how good communism is! The state won't bother us anymore.
That the whole or any part of the education of the people should be in State hands, I go so far as anyone in deprecating A general State education is a mere contrivance for molding people to be exactly like one another.
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessaryelements of a healthystate of political life.
The worth ofthe State, inthelong run, istheworth of the individuals composing it.
When I consider how my light is spent, E're half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide, Lodg'd with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, least he returning chide, Doth God exact day-labour, light denied, I fondly ask; But patience to prevent That murmur, soon replies,God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts, who best Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best, his state Is kingly. Thousands at his bidding speed And post o'er land and ocean without rest: Theyalso serve who only stand and wait.
Heaven is for thee too high To know what passes there; be lowly wise: Think only what concerns thee and thy being. Dream not of other worlds, what creatures there Live, in what state, condition, or degree, Contented that thus far hath been revealed Not of earth only but of highest heav'n.
What thou art is mine; Our state cannot be severed, we are one, One flesh; to lose thee were to lose my self.
Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state's.
The laird o'Cockpen, he's proud an' he's great, His mind is ta'en up wi' things o'the State.
Corpus omne perseverare in statu suo quiescendi vel movendi uniformiter in directum, nisi quatenus illud a viribus impressis cogitur statum suum mutare. Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed thereon.
Th' whole worl's in a state o'chassis!
It isusual tospeakof the Fascist objective asthe'beehive state', which does a grave injustice to bees. A world of rabbits ruled by stoats would be nearer the mark.
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built upon the bowers of paradise.
I was called by my sovereign and by the voice of the peopletoassist the State when othershad abdicated the service of it.That being so, no one can be surprisedthat I will go on no longer, since my advice is not taken. Being responsible, I will directand will be responsible for nothing that I do not direct.
Socrates isguilty of corrupting the minds of the young, and of believing indeities of his own invention instead of the gods recognized by the state.
For I spend all my time going about trying to persuade you, young and old, to make your first and chief concern not for your bodies nor for your possessions, but for the highest welfare of your souls, proclaiming as Igo,Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
Oh happy state! when souls each other draw, When love is liberty, and nature, law: All then is full, possessing, and possessed, No craving void left aching in the breast.
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act or rest, In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer, Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little, or too much.
IwasbornaTory, amaTory, and shall dieaTory.Inever yet heard that it was any part of the faith of aTory to take the institutions and liberties, the laws and customs that his country has evolved over the centuries, and mergethem with those of eight other nations into a new-made artificial stateand what is more, to do so without the willing approbation and consent of the nation.
We can applaud the state lottery as a public subsidy of intelligence, for it yields public income that is calculated to lighten the tax burden of us prudent abstainers at the expense of the benighted masses of wishful thinkers.
When State Magic fails unofficial magic becomes stronger.
Secrecy is the first essential in the affairs of State.
War, then, is not a relationship between man and man, but between State and State, in which private persons are only enemies accidentally.
Political economy (the economyof a State, orofcitizens) consists simply in the production, preservation, and distribution, at fittest time and place, of useful or pleasurable things.
The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated, till it attain years of discretion.
Stress is the state manifested bya specific syndrome which consists of all the nonspecifically inducted changes within a biologic system.
In my dreams is a country where the State is the Church and the Church the people: three in one and one in three. It is a commonwealth in which work is play and play is life: three in one and one in three. It is a temple in which the priest is the worshipper and the worshipper the worshipped: three in one and one in three. It is a godhead in which all life is human and all humanity divine: three in one and one in three. It is, in short, the dream of a madman.
The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate; Death lays his icy hand on kings: Scepter and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
O wretched state of man in self-division!
I come from a state where gun control is just how steady you hold your weapon.
In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
To preserve a trading state from decline, the greatest care must be taken, to support a perfect balance between the hands employed in work and the demand for their labour.
The art of war is of vital importance to the state.
Hobbes clearly proves, that every creature Lives in a state of war by nature.
We want a society in which we are free to make choices, to make mistakes, to be generous and compassionate. That is what we mean by a moral societynot a society in which the State is responsible for everything, and no one is responsible for the State.
The state has no place in the bedrooms of the nation.
Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps would move, And when this dust falls to the urn In that state I came, return.
Ce corps qui s'appelait et qui s'appelle encore le saint empire romain n'e tait en aucune manie' re ni saint, ni romain, ni empire. This state which was called and is still called the Holy Roman Empire, was not in any way holy, or Roman or an Empire.
The greatest asset that a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep.
The woman voter would be pernicious to the State not only because she could not back her vote by physical force, but also by reason of her intellectual defects.
What ifthat other single voicewe knowsowell responds by saying,'Wesay no, and we arethe State'? Well, wesay yesand we are the people.
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