Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well. Ralph Waldo Emerson American Poet More Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes 59
We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state. Ralph Waldo Emerson American Poet More Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes 57
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence. Ralph Waldo Emerson American Poet More Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes 54
It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay. Ralph Waldo Emerson American Poet More Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes 54
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. Samuel Richardson English Novelist More Samuel Richardson Quotes 5
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. George Santayana American Philosopher More George Santayana Quotes 5
Unless and until the state, city and county learn there are victims of corruption ... (and) unless and until people who vote understand that there are important consequences in their public officials' acts of dishonesty, this system will not change. Patrick Collins More Patrick Collins Quotes 5
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess. H. L. Mencken American Writer More H. L. Mencken Quotes 4
Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state. Karl Marx German Philosopher More Karl Marx Quotes 3
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. Samuel Butler British Poet More Samuel Butler Quotes 3
Fears are nothing more than a state of mind. Napoleon Hill American Writer More Napoleon Hill Quotes 3
I ended up being the governor of a very ag state, Nebraska. Mike Johanns American Politician More Mike Johanns Quotes 3
The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded. Leo Tolstoy Russian Novelist More Leo Tolstoy Quotes 3
We don't think scientists have the right to contaminate the state grain -- and it could happen through cross-pollination, if they develop a genetically enhanced wild rice and plant it in Minnesota. Winona Laduke More Winona Laduke Quotes 3
Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death. Buddha Leader More Buddha Quotes 2
Certainly, losing any services that provide help for the juvenile problem in the state is not good. John Davenport More John Davenport Quotes 2
As a developing state, Iran should speedily increase its investment in different energy-related sectors. The United States , despite having giant fossil fuel reserves, has made considerable amount of investment in the nuclear energy field. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad More Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Quotes 2
At the state level, we must take a careful look at what went wrong and make sure it never happens again. The buck stops here, and as your governor, I take full responsibility. Kathleen Blanco American Politician More Kathleen Blanco Quotes 1
The new soft totalitarianism that is advancing on the left wants to have a state religion It is an atheist, nihilistic religion - but it is a religion that is obligatory for all. Rocco Buttiglione American Politician More Rocco Buttiglione Quotes 1
Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA - ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State. Heinrich Himmler German Soldier More Heinrich Himmler Quotes 1
A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride. C. S. Lewis British Author More C. S. Lewis Quotes 1
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. Edmund Burke Irish Statesman More Edmund Burke Quotes 1
It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions. Marcel Proust French Author More Marcel Proust Quotes 1
But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state? Alexander Pope English Poet More Alexander Pope Quotes 1
Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state. John Locke English Philosopher More John Locke Quotes 1