A Quotes
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“A state is a perfect body of free men, united together to enjoy common rights and advantages.”
Source: The Rights of War and Peace: Including the Law of Nature and of Nations
“A state is absolute in the sense which I have in mind when it claims the right to a monopoly of all the force within the community, to make war, to make peace, to conscript life, to tax, to establish and disestablish property, to define crime, to punish disobedience, to control education, to supervise the family, to regulate personal habits, and to censor opinions. The modern state claims all of these powers, and, in the matter of theory, there is no real difference in the size of the claim between communists, fascists, and Democrats.”
Source: A Preface to Morals
“A state is an association of similar persons whose aim is the best life possible. What is best is happiness, and to be happy is an active exercise of virtue and a complete employment of it.”
“A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.”
“A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange. Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not mere companionship.”
“A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.”
“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.”
“A state is nothing more than a reflection of its citizens; the more decent the citizens, the more decent the state.”
“A state is organic when it has a center, and this center is an idea that shapes the various domains of life in an efficacious way; it is organic when it ignores the division and the autonomization of the particular and when, by virtue of the system of hierarchical participation, every part within its relative autonomy performs its own function and enjoys an intimate connection with the whole.”
“A state may launch a pre-emptive strike if it has very good reason for thinking that another state is preparing for war.”
“A state of affairs which leads to daily vexation is not the right state.”
“A state of apostasy is worse than a state of ignorance.”
Source: The NIV Matthew Henry Commentary in One Volume: Based on the Broad Oak Edition
“A state of being, meaning a breath which is connected to now.”
“A state of confusion overtook Saleem. If he told the truth he would face the punishment; instant but painful. If he lies he would be safe but would have to tell lies throughout his life and live with continuous guilt”
Source: The Heist
“A state of consciousness is characteristically very transitory; an idea that is conscious now is no longer so a moment later, although it can become so again under certain conditions that are easily brought about.”
Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud
“A state of equality is perhaps less elevated, but it is more just; and its justice constitutes its greatness and beauty.”
Source: Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II
“A state of expectancy is a great assetl; a state of uncertainty-one moment thinking "perhaps" and the next moment thinking "I don't know"-will never get desired results.”
Source: How to Change Your Life: An Inspirational, Life-Changing Classic from the Ernest Holmes Library
“A state of grace is when everything imperfect disappears, leaving just stripped-down harmony. One is left empty, with nothing except a fluid open sensation, similar to becoming the sound from a tuning fork piercing through space.”
“A state of mind is something that one assumes. It cannot be purchased, it must be created.”
Source: Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition
“A state of mind that sees God in everything is evidence of growth in grace and a thankful heart.”
“A state of negative energy means that you are essentially getting something for nothing.”
“A state of reverie does not avoid reality, it accedes to reality.”
“A state of shock is produced when a story is ruptured… Trump is not a rupture at all, but rather the culmination – the logical end point – of a great many dangerous stories our culture has been telling for a very long time. That greed is good. That the market rules. That money is what matters in life. That white men are better than the rest. That the natural world is there for us to pillage. That the vulnerable deserve their fate and the one percent deserve their golden towers. That anything public or commonly held is sinister and not worth protection. That we are surrounded by danger and should only look after our own. That there is no alternative to any of this.”
Source: No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need
“A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is the gap that opens up between event and existing narratives to explain that event, Being creatures of narrative, humans tend to be very uncomfortable with meaning vacuums- which is why those opportunistic players, the people I have termed "disaster capitalists," have been able to rush into the gap with their preexisting wish lists and simplistic stories of good and evil.”
Source: Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
“A state of skepticism and suspense may amuse a few inquisitive minds. But the practice of superstition is so congenial to the multitude that, if they are forcibly awakened, they still regret the loss of their pleasing vision.”
Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“A state of temperance, sobriety and justice without devotion is a cold, lifeless, insipid condition of virtue, and is rather to be styled philosophy than religion.”
Source: Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste
“A state of the soul is either (1) an emotion, (2) a capacity, or (3) a disposition; virtue therefore must be one of these three things.”
Source: The Nicomachean ethics
“A state of things in which a large portion of the most active and inquiring intellects find it advisable to keep the genuine principles and grounds of their convictions within their own breasts, and attempt, in what they address to the public, to fit as much as they can of their own conclusions to premises which they have internally renounced, cannot send forth the open, fearless characters, and logical, consistent intellects who once adorned the thinking world.”
Source: JOHN STUART MILL - Ultimate Collection: Works on Philosophy, Politics & Economy (Including Memoirs & Essays): Autobiography, Utilitarianism, The Subjection of Women, On Liberty, Principles of Political Economy, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive and More
“A state of true and universal tolerance is best ensured by leaving alone the peculiarities of men and peoples.”
Source: Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims
“A state of war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens.”
“A state of war is not a blank check... when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens.”
“A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.”
“A state rep in Oklahoma gave a horrific speech where she felt the homosexual agenda was a greater threat to America than terrorism. People like this - there's not hate in their hearts. They believe what they believe because of the book that they prescribe to. You can't argue with these people.”
“A state that denies its citizens their basic rights becomes a danger to its neighbors as well: internal arbitrary rule will be reflected in arbitrary external relations. The suppression of public opinion, the abolition of public competition for power and its public exercise opens the way for the state power to arm itself in any way it sees fit.... A state that does not hesitate to lie to its own people will not hesitate to lie to other states.”
“A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.”
Source: Sophie's World
“A state that employs torture invites barbarism and deserves nothing better than to suffer the harvest of its own excesses.”
Source: Dust of Dreams
“A state that privatizes most of its functions will inevitably defend itself by employing its own people as mercenaries”
“A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.”
“A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay.”
“A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay; its free government is transformed into a tyranny; it disregards the principles which it should preserve, and finally degenerates into despotism. The distinguishing characteristic of small republics is stability: the character of large republics is mutability.”
“A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes--will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.”
“A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested.”
“A state which in this age of racial poisoning dedicates itself to the care of its best racial elements must some day become lord of the earth.
May the adherents of our movement never forget this if ever the magnitude of the sacrifices should beguile them to an anxious comparison with the possible results.”
Source: Mein Kampf
“A state which savagely represses or persecutes sections of its people cannot in my view be regarded as observing the rule of law, even if the transport of the persecuted minority to the concentration camp or the compulsory exposure of female children on the mountainside is the subject of detailed laws duly enacted and scrupulously observed.”
Source: The Rule of Law
“A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.”
“A State would be happy where philosophers were kings, or kings philosophers.”
“A state's potential power is based on the size of its population and the level of its wealth.”
Source: The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition)
“A state, a community, caring first for all its children, providing amply for their spiritual as for their temporal well-being, has organized the primitive Eden.”
Source: Table-talk
“A State, in idea, is the opposite of a Church. A State regards classes, and not individuals; and it estimates classes, not by internal merit, but external accidents, as property, birth, etc. But a church does the reverse of this, and disregards all external accidents, and looks at men as individual persons, allowing no gradations of ranks, but such as greater or less wisdom, learning, and holiness ought to confer. A Church is, therefore, in idea, the only pure democracy.”
Source: Golden Hours with Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“A state-of-the-art calculation requires 100 hours of CPU time on the state-of-the-art computer, independent of the decade.”