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The world is a Hobbesian state of nature in which the struggle for domination is the very essence of international life.
— Charles Krauthammer
When we try to observe things that are very small, the act of observation itself will significantly disturb the state we are seeking to measure.
— John D. Barrow
We must recognize the chief characteristic of the modern era - a permanent state of what I call violent peace.
— James D. Watkins
State fairs are the confluence of the garish and the profound.
— Douglas Wissing
I think the State shouldn't poke its nose into the sexual relations of consenting adults.
— Rocco Buttiglione
For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.
— E.P. Thompson
The union of Church and State is not to make the Church political, but the State religious.
— John Scott, 1st Earl Of Eldon
A substitute shines brightly as a king
Until a king be by, and then his state
Empties itself, as dot an inland brook
Into the main of waters. — William Shakespeare
Until a king be by, and then his state
Empties itself, as dot an inland brook
Into the main of waters. — William Shakespeare
After India and China, Indonesia was the biggest new nation-state to emerge in the mid-twentieth century.
— Pankaj Mishra
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
The people from 'The State' are close friends, but also some of the most incredibly funny people I know.
— Joe Lo Truglio
I do support a constitutional amendment on marriage between a man and a woman, but I would not be going into the states to overturn their state law.
— Michele Bachmann
There was the scientific and technical progress which couldn't be predicted by the state.
— Anatoly Chubais
It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The only holiday of independence which I can never leave out is the celebration of the independence of the Jewish State of Israel.
— Milos Zeman
One reason why the progressive state is 'cheerful' is that social conflict is diminished by it.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State.
— Sophocles
California is the only state in the union where you can fall asleep under a rose bush in full bloom and freeze to death.
— W.C. Fields
Love does not exist, it's like religion, the state wants you to believe in that kind of crap so they can control you, and f**k your head up.
— Irvine Welsh
A citizen should render to the state all the services he can as soon as the sovereign demands them.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side.
— Terence
The state of emergency and critical nature of the times do not allow me, as they do not allow anyone, to embark on a blame game.
— Nicos Anastasiades
An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.
— Theodor Adorno
The time has come to return integrity, performance and dignity to New York and make it the Empire State once again.
— Andrew Cuomo
The whole world is a dream; even this (the waking state) is a dream ... What you dreamt last night does not exist now.
— Sarada Devi
I love Denmark. But it is a very safe place, and it is easy to let the state look after everything for you.
— Agnes Obel
Work restores humankind and all its attributes to the savage animal condition that was its original intended state.
— Elfriede Jelinek
Accept the challenges of life and you'll continue to find that winning is the spirit of living ... it's merely a state of mind.
— Mychal Wynn
The State always stands for swindling, intrigue, and privilege, and cannot stand for anything else.
— Ignazio Silone
And that is what radio-activity is, a quick return to the state of rest which underlies the spiritual or invisible universe.
— Walter Russell
Forget the state concerns
we think this is bad for churches. Most churches are small and not ready to handle 500 pages of government red tape. — Michael Tanner
we think this is bad for churches. Most churches are small and not ready to handle 500 pages of government red tape. — Michael Tanner
A common American error is to believe that freedom is the absence of state authority.
— Timothy Snyder
Consciousness is not confined within an individual brain. Otherwise, how can it cause changes in the physical state of things outside the brain?
— Ilchi Lee
Men's reproduction isn't regulated by the state
and it shouldn't be. Neither should women's. — Faye Wattleton
and it shouldn't be. Neither should women's. — Faye Wattleton
She kicked the wall. In her semi-ghostly state, she found this profoundly unsatisfying.
— Nicole Kornher-Stace
Back in the '70s when my friends in California were at Berkeley, in-state tuition was around $700 a year.
— Gail Collins
It frightens me to imagine the state of learning in this world if everyone had your driving curiosity.
— Jerome Lawrence
The feeling of love is measured by the extent of missing the feverish state in which the absence of the other plunges us
— Francine Noel
The state is made for man, not man for the state ... That is to say, the state should be our servant and not we its slaves
— Albert Einstein
She was back in western Washington state, where rain was so prevalent that a day of sunshine was the lead story on the local news.
— Susan Mallery
Whatever else the Norman Conquest may or may not have done, it made the old haphazard state of legal affairs forever impossible.
— Edward Jenks
read the state of the art, the rest of inspiration
— Art Opportunities
The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy.
— Mahatma Gandhi
You get to the stage when your almost looking down on yourself. When you get into that state, it's the best state ever.
— Stirling Moss
Being the only Asian-American in the State Legislature, I've had no choice but to reach across the aisle.
— Grace Meng
Let's say there are 500 sons and daughters like you in each state. Then we could control the government.
— Sun Myung Moon
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.
— Walter Lippmann
Happiness is the natural state for most people whenever they feel healthy, have flexible schedules, and expect the future to be good.
— Anonymous
How blest was the created state
Of man and woman, ere they fell,
Compared to our unhappy fate:
We need not fear another hell. — John Wilmot
Of man and woman, ere they fell,
Compared to our unhappy fate:
We need not fear another hell. — John Wilmot
Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state.
— Mahatma Gandhi
If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State.
— Bertrand Russell
The Church must run the risk of dilution rather than leave the state to the cold light of reason, unwarmed by tenderness.
— Martin Luther
Can't trust a fascist
truth is always your first sacrifice to the welfare of the state — Matthew Woodring Stover
truth is always your first sacrifice to the welfare of the state — Matthew Woodring Stover
The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it.
— Thomas Jefferson
In the world we live in, what we know and what we don't know are like Siamese twins, inseparable, existing in a state of confusion.
— Haruki Murakami
My weight is a bit like the state of my bank account; if I don't check the balance I can't get upset.
— Ruth Saberton
The president of the United States and his secretary of state were made honorary Hebrews.
— Julius Streicher
The Chinese view the state, not just as an intimate member of the family ... but as the head of the family.
— Martin Jacques
The state is a vast enterprise for declaring all sorts of things legal for itself that would be illegal for us.
— Llewellyn Rockwell
K-State is a dangerous team. Those are the kind of teams you don't want to see in the tournament.
— Kelvin Sampson
Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle.
— Cormac McCarthy
For Art alone is great:
The bust survives the state,
The crown the potentate. — Theophile Gautier
The bust survives the state,
The crown the potentate. — Theophile Gautier
I took the state of Ohio from an $8 billion hole and a 350,000 job loss to a $2 billion surplus and a gain of 350,000 jobs.
— John Kasich
Napoleon was the best method. Dissolved all representative institutions and it decided who should rule the state with him.
— Mao Zedong
The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration - a state of awaiting.
— Sri Aurobindo
Only by changing the state of consciousness can we change mankind.
— Debasish Mridha
I was a total jock growing up. I went to super-dorky basketball clinics and was handpicked to play on a state team called the Texas Heat.
— Erin Wasson
Imagine Texas as a blue state: how hard it would be to carry the presidency or gain control of the Senate.
— Jeb Bush
I go home in a state of unspeakable bliss, and waltz in imagination, all night long, with my arm around the blue waist of my dear divinity.
— Charles Dickens
technological singularity," the state at which computer intelligence will have overtaken our own.
— David Lagercrantz
Christ, even my staff have noticed that something's rotten in the state of fucking Denmark.
— E.L. James
We have built our State on the freedom of personal adventure.
— John Grierson
The actual state of our knowledge is always provisional and ... there must be, beyond what is actually known, immense new regions to discover.
— Louis De Broglie
Until egoism reaches the non-existent state, there is nothing but fear in the worldly life.
— Dada Bhagwan
The dream gives a true picture of the subjective state, while the conscious mind denies that this state exists, or recognizes it only grudgingly.
— C. G. Jung
Sentimental poetry differs from naive poetry in that it relates the real state at which the latter stops to ideas and applies ideas to that reality.
— Friedrich Schiller
The present is never a happy state to any human being.
— Samuel Johnson
For the totalitarian mind, adherence to state propaganda does not suffice: one must display proper enthusiasm while marching in the parade.
— Noam Chomsky
When a state is afraid of the journalists, it means that that state is definitely doing some secret devilish things!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
He who steals a hook shall be hanged; while he who steals the state shall be crowned as prince.
— Laozi
We've got to see a state where the Afghan government can handle its own day-to-day security.
— Stephen Harper
I think it's appropriate in America for anyone to speak out and say what their reaction is to the president's State of the Union speech.
— Jim Jordan
Reforming the way the state works with businesses and providing incentives for employers will help preserve and create new jobs in Massachusetts.
— Mitt Romney
Achievement was worthy of praise and honor, but excessive achievement was pernicious and a threat to the state.
— Tom Holland