State Quotes

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind. (Napoleon Hill)
The basis of a democratic state is liberty. View quote
Aristotle
The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws. View quote
Tacitus
Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions. View quote
Aristotle
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker. View quote
Plutarch
I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him, either. View quote
Sophocles
To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days. View quote
Plutarch
Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected. View quote
George Soros
While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
A functioning police state needs no police. View quote
William S. Burroughs
All oppression creates a state of war. (Simone de Beauvoir)
Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation. View quote
Samuel Richardson
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be. View quote
Anton Chekhov
Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. View quote
Noam Chomsky
Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture. View quote
Juan Ramón Jiménez
The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else. View quote
Frédéric Bastiat
I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. ... These two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death. View quote
George Carlin
Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning. View quote
Bruce Lee
When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people. View quote
Edmund Burke
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. (H. H. Asquith)
You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state. View quote
Benito Mussolini
When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of Hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay. View quote
Brian Aldiss
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior. View quote
Mary McCarthy
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