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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

My internal being was in a state of insurrection and turmoil; I felt that order would thence arise, but I had no power to produce it. By — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

As the state of mind, as the efficiency. Time is only a relative factor — Rajasaraswathii

True civil disobedience ... compels the state to resort to power. — Archibald Cox

Increasing the power of the state in response to the Soviet menace would not defeat socialism in Russia but bring it to the United States. — Frank Chodorov

In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you. — Albert Jay Nock

Not in the state of unconsciousness, but in full awareness when the higher Power will descend into and direct us, then only the yogic life will begin. — Sri Aurobindo

Pakistan is riddled with problems that are rooted in the disproportionate power of the state. Aid has only boosted that power. — Iqbal Quadir

The types of thoughts that you think create a state of mind. The reason you think the thoughts you do results from your level of power. — Frederick Lenz

The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract. — Walter Lippmann

Command and obedience are but unfortunate necessities of human life: society in equality is its normal state. — John Stuart Mill

There is, in fact, a strong case to be made that a prime concern of government is the security of state power from the population. As — Noam Chomsky

Neither failure nor success has the power to change your inner state of Being. — Eckhart Tolle

In fact, the entire nature of this State seemed to highlight that political power was just an illusion provided to engage and excite us — Brandon Sanderson

When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power. — Walter Jon Williams

Aid the sick; thank the Divine Power for the state of equilibrium you are able to conserve. — Chico Xavier

Geo, let me tell you a short story. Nanny State married Big Brother and then they sat back and bathed in the power ...and counted the cash. Smiling — John F. Leonard

Each of us has been endowed with the perfect power to be free. Slavery is a state of mind that fails to acknowledge the slave's own power. — Gerry Spence

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it. — Adolf Hitler

I will do everything in my power to prevent a Palestinian state — Naftali Bennett

Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent. — James Connolly

There is something about the state putting the power to bully into the hands of subnormal, sadistic apes that makes my blood boil. — Gore Vidal

The power of the State must be invoked for restoring economic freedom just as it has been invoked for destroying economic freedom. — Hilaire Belloc

I'd been so caught up in surviving and staying free, that I'd forgotten that freedom was a state of mind. — R.J. Prescott

It is the power of music to carry one directly into the mental state of the composer. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men. — Rose Wilder Lane

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own. — Albert J. Nock

In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state. — Peter L. Berger

Belief has the power to change your inner state and your outer world. — John Paul Warren

The State acquires power ... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates. — Frank Chodorov

In assuming any office besides its essential one, the State begins to lose the power of fulfilling its essential one. — Herbert Spencer

The power of the state is measured by the power that men surrender to it. — Felix Morley

Violence is the power of the state; imagination and non-violence the power of civil society. — Rebecca Solnit

Neither a state nor a bank ever have had unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power. — David Ricardo

The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence. — Kenneth Kaunda

Only as a grand gesture of defeat will men creep into the arms of the state and seek refuge in its power rather than their own courage. — Henry Wriston

As a child, every human being passes through a state of powerlessness, and truth is one of the strongest weapons of those who have no power. — Erich Fromm

Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly. — Ludwig Von Mises

The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good. — Catherine Ponder

The madness in the heart is the state of mind. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You can summon up power from past lives and bring them into this life. That can give you a boost into the next state of mind or further up. — Frederick Lenz

I must accept responsibility even though I had no power as foreign minister because it was a dictator state. — Joachim Von Ribbentrop

The whole military power of the State is at the disposal of the Governor. He is the commander of the militia, and head of the armed force. — Alexis De Tocqueville

The state accumulates moral power only through the spiritual activity of their citizens. — Mary Parker Follett

If fifty thousand men were to die for the good of the State, I certainly would weep for them, but political necessity comes before everything else. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state. — Max Weber

A state's potential power is based on the size of its population and the level of its wealth. — John Mearsheimer

The perfect state of creative bliss is having power (you are 50) and knowing nothing (you are 9). This assures an interesting and successful outcome. — Tibor Kalman

The gap between our real power and what people expect from us is the source of the most difficult pressure any head of state has to manage. — Moises Naim

When you imagine it, feel it, then write it - creation is inevitable. — T.F. Hodge

The democratic state can sometimes abuse its power as much as those who seek to destroy it abuse fundamental rights and democratic practices. — David Blunkett

Power resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The modern State, whether in a totalitarian or a democratic country, has far too much power, and we are probably right to fear it. — Anthony Burgess

Throughout history, politicians have used other people's property to buy themselves power. That is the primary achievement of the welfare state. — James Bovard

In most cases, it's not what you do but what you don't do that delivers you to a state of personal power. — Lujan Matus

Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so. — Robert A. Heinlein

Successful economies in the modern world are not sheepish about the power and responsibility of the state. — David Miliband

To the heads of the new Islamic State, their God was money and power on earth. — Kenneth Eade

The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence. — Moses Mendelssohn

A religion that needs state power to enforce obedience to its beliefs is a religion that has lost confidence in the power of its Deity. — Russell D. Moore

Being of no power to make his wishes good: His promises fly so beyond his state That what he speaks is all in debt; he owes For every word. — William Shakespeare

The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself. — Ursula K. Le Guin

The true enemy of this bunch was not State Power but Lack of Imagination. — Haruki Murakami

The State then uses this monopoly to wield power over the inhabitants of the area and to enjoy the material fruits of that power. — Thomas E. Woods Jr.

When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state. — Euripides

The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

By the power invested in me by the state of New York and the Universal Life Church, I now pronounce you husband and husband. You can kiss the groom. — Conan O'Brien

If the average person realized the power he wields over his life and destiny, he would live in a perpetual state of wonder and thanksgiving. — Earl Nightingale

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself. — Henry Ward Beecher

It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society. — Murray N. Rothbard

There is as far as I know, no example in history, of any state voluntarily ceding power from the centre to its constituent parts. — Charles Handy

Happiness is a 'state of mind' which we ourselves have the power to control - and that control lies in our thinking. — Claude M. Bristol

Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power — Benito Mussolini

Choice is the doorway to our creative power. To unleash this power, we must begin from the state of beingness. — Ilchi Lee

A man's wife has more power over him than the state has. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Me, rule? Me, place the State under my law, when my feeble reason no longer rules even myself! — Jean Racine

Wartime always brings expansions of state power, together with erosions of moral and constitutional standards. — Joseph Sobran

Each state enjoys sovereign power. — Gouverneur Morris

Spiritual power and spiritual authority notoriously shade over into both politics and poetry. — Harold Bloom

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State. — Albert Camus

You are either in a state of perfection or a state of learning. Reading is one of the best ways to learn about our lives and purpose! — Cupideros

I don't underestimate the power of mental preparation throughout all of my training. I'm in a much better state of mind about competition. — Amanda Beard

When social cooperation is disrupted, state power is always strengthened. — Wilhelm Reich

The whole of mankind's progress has had to be achieved against the resistance and opposition of the state and its power of coercion. — Ludwig Von Mises

Power does not reside in institutions, not even the state or large corporations. It is located in the networks that structure society. — Manuel Castells

If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself. — Mikhail Bakunin

When the heart is open and balanced, we enter into a state of attraction to what we need, because the power of love is magnetic and harmonious. — Sonia Choquette

Words that arise spontaneously out of the state of presence are charged with spiritual power: the power to awaken. — Eckhart Tolle

Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism. — Vladimir Putin

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable. - Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind — Philip G. Zimbardo

All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates. — Frank Chodorov

Economic and social misery increases in direct proportion to the size and power of the central government of a nation or state. — Kirkpatrick Sale

Civility is the natural state for people who know how limited their own individual powers are and know, too, that they need the conversation. — David Brooks

A state is not the same thing as a society, although the Greeks and Romans thought it was. A state is an organization of power on a territorial basis. — Carroll Quigley

Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army. — Vladimir Lenin

[T]he State ... gives idle capital the power of increase, and, through interest, rent, profit, and taxes, robs industrious labor of its products. — Benjamin Tucker

Separation of church and state cannot mean an absolute separation between moral principles and political power. — Edward Kennedy