State Quotes - page 4

Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace. (Paul Theroux)
No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith. View quote
Anton Chekhov
Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image. View quote
Charles Dickens
It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one. View quote
Pierre Corneille
War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means. View quote
Carl von Clausewitz
If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it. View quote
Jean Cocteau
The actual state of our knowledge is always provisional and... there must be, beyond what is actually known, immense new regions to discover. View quote
Louis de Broglie
Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it. View quote
Isaac Newton
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world. View quote
John Locke
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. View quote
Albert Einstein
It is time to return to those core values, time to get back to basics: to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family, and not shuffling it off on other people and the state. (John Major)
Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land. View quote
Aldo Leopold
The Roman state stands by ancient customs, and its manhood. View quote
Ennius
Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it. View quote
Aristotle
Jordan is the only Arab state that has provided citizenship to Palestinian refugees and integrated them. But something has to be done about the Palestinians living in refugee camps in Syria and Lebanon. View quote
Walter Russell Mead
Nothing is more misleading to the youth of a nation than to state the outcome immediately after the beginning as if nothing could have taken place in between. View quote
Gustav Stresemann
The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong for us to pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men. View quote
Alva Myrdal
The key players are now all in place in Washington and in state governments across America to officially label carbon dioxide as a pollutant and enact laws that tax us citizens for our carbon footprints. View quote
John Coleman
We believe that human rights transcend boundaries and must prevail over state sovereignty. View quote
Jose Ramos-Horta
Today we stand on a bridge leading from the territorial state to the world community. Politically, we are still governed by the concept of the territorial state; economically and technically, we live under the auspices of worldwide communications and worldwide markets. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
The theoretically unrestricted right to develop power, to wage war against other states, is antisocial and is doubly dangerous, because the state as a mass entity represents a low moral and intellectual level. (Christian Lous Lange)
Hand in hand with nationalist economic isolationism, militarism struggles to maintain the sovereign state against the forward march of internationalism. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
No state is free from militarism, which is inherent in the very concept of the sovereign state. There are merely differences of degree in the militarism of states. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
Moreover, if the territorial state is to continue as the last word in the development of society, then war is inevitable. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
Let us assume that the ideal were reached; let us imagine a state of international life in which the danger of war no longer exists. Then no one would dare to demand a penny for obviously completely superfluous armaments. View quote
Ludwig Quidde
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