State Quotes

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

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.

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

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.

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

I ended up being the governor of a very ag state, Nebraska.

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.

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.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.

Certainly, losing any services that provide help for the juvenile problem in the state is not good.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.

The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?