state quotes

• God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [god/state/willpower/shadow]
• Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it. (Albert Einstein) [conscience/state]
• A man of action, forced into a state of thought, is unhappy until he can get out of it. (John Galsworthy) [action/state]
• Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us back our primitive, unattached state. (Thomas Mann) [time/state]
• Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal. (Friedrich Engels) [state/crime/more]
• Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism. (Vladimir Putin) [needs/state/power/tyranny]
• Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. (John Adams) [facts/state/facts]
• Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within. (Hannah Arendt) [tyranny/content/state/role]
• Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a state might be composed of slaves, or the animal creation... nor is it an alliance mutually to defend each other from injuries, or for a commercial intercourse. But whosoever endeavors to establish wholesome laws in a state, attends to the virtues and vices of each individual who composes it; from whence it is evident, that the first care of him who would found a city, truly deserving that name, and not nominally so, must be to have his citizens virtuous. ( Aristotle) [society/state/creation/state]
• 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. ( Aristotle) [order/state/mind]
• The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. ( Aristotle) [state]
• It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear. (Francis Bacon) [state/mind/desire/fear]
• We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have some sense of what we are, who we are, what our goals are, and what we take life to be. The question is not what we can do now for the hypothetical Mexican, the hypothetical Negro. The question is what we really want out of life, for ourselves, what we think is real. (James Baldwin) [state/take/life/question]
• The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone. (James Baldwin) [artist/state/men/state]
• Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock. (James Baldwin) [changes/state]
• We are no longer in a state of growth; we are in a state of excess. We are living in a society of excrescence. The boil is growing out of control, recklessly at cross purposes with itself, its impacts multiplying as the causes disintegrate. (Jean Baudrillard) [state/growth/state/society]
• In days gone by, we were afraid of dying in dishonor or a state of sin. Nowadays, we are afraid of dying fools. Now the fact is that there is no Extreme Unction to absolve us of foolishness. We endure it here on earth as subjective eternity. (Jean Baudrillard) [state/sin]
• The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more. (Georges Bernanos) [state/duties/more]
• There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched. ( Napoleon I) [class/people/state]
• If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable. (Andre Breton) [love/state]
• To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery --even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness --is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself. Imagination alone offers me some intimation of what can be. (Andre Breton) [imagination/state/slavery/happiness]
• 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) [construction/state/willpower/service]
• Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state. (Edmund Burke) [men/state]
• A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. (Edmund Burke) [state/change]
• The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action. (Albert Camus) [state/action]
• Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings; but those who are in a state of mediocrity are best flattered upon their beauty, or at least their graces: for every woman who is not absolutely ugly, thinks herself handsome. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [women/ugly/state/beauty]
• Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent. () [power/democracy/state]
• The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies. (Oliver Cromwell) [state/men]
• Mind like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort. (Charles Dickens) [mind/willpower/state]
• Minds, like bodies, will fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort. (Charles Dickens) [willpower/state]
• Resolved to ruin or to rule the state. (John Dryden) [state]

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