State Quotes

In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war.

I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion.

My father was a sergeant with the Connecticut state police. My mother was a hairstylist.

Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.

We want all the Palestinians back in their homeland, and then there can be a fair referendum for people to choose the form of state they want. Whoever gets the majority can rule.

The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.

A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.

The larger the state, the more callous it becomes... the colder its heart. It is also true that the bigger the corporation, the more callous its heart. But unlike the state, corporations have competition and have no police powers.

If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state.

So there clearly is a sense in which the Labour Party here, certainly at State level is reaching out and connecting with people and reflecting the aspirations and needs of, you know the mass of ordinary Australians.

When Pat Robertson says there is no constitutional doctrine of separation of church and state, I say he is wrong.

Invariably, also a Palestinian state should live side by side with Israel within recognized and secure borders and the security and prosperity of the Palestinian people must be guaranteed.

The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol.

The state of minds vary according to the angle under which one examines them.

The right of such control is already admitted by the State Socialists, though they maintain that, as a matter of fact, the individual would be allowed a much larger liberty than he now enjoys.

Earlier ages fortified themselves behind the sovereign state, behind protectionism and militarism.

For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state.

When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high.

In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.

There's no conflict between the social-welfare state and open markets.

In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference.

In short, it may be said that on paper the obligations to settle international disputes peacefully are now so comprehensive and far-reaching that it is almost impossible for a state to resort to war without violating one or more solemn treaty obligations.

The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.

Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.

No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another.

One of the things that was really an issue was I did not want to just be a woman secretary of state. I wanted to be a secretary of a state who was a woman, but not just chosen for that particular reason.

Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.

I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.

As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.

We are hopeful about the opportunities ahead, and stand ready to join this President in an open and honest dialogue about improving the state of our union for all Americans not the select few.