S Quotes
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“States have the responsibility to create rules and conditions for growth and development, and to channel the benefits to all citizens by providing education and making people able to participate in the economies, and in decision-making.”
“States have their conversions and periods as well as naturall bodies.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“States have two kinds of power: latent power and military power.”
Source: The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition)
“States in the world are like individuals in the state of nature. They are neither perfectly good nor are they controlled by law.”
Source: Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis
“States kill when they apply the death penalty, when they send their people to war, or when they carry out extra-judicial or summary executions. They can also kill by omission, when they fail to guarantee to their people access to the bare essentials for life.”
“States like (Iraq, Iran, & North Korea), and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world.”
“States like these [Iran, Iraq, North Korae], and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world. By seeking weapons of mass destruction, these regimes pose a grave and growing danger. They could provide these arms to terrorists, giving them the means to match their hatred. They could attack our allies or attempt to blackmail the United States. In any of these cases, the price of indifference would be catastrophic.”
“States of profound happiness, like all other forms of intoxication, are apt to befuddle the wits; intense enjoyment of the present always makes one forget the past.”
“States of soul rightly expressed, as the poet expresses them in moments of pure inspiration, retain forever the power of creating like states. It is this that makes genuine literature a vital force.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
“States of the atmosphere pass into us as water through the meshes of a sieve, and storms occur in us before they break upon the world without, creating restless sensations. ("Absolute Evil")”
Source: American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps
“States organized for war will make war as surely as hens will lay eggs.”
Source: A Short History of the World
“States Rights died at Appomattox.”
“States rise, states fall,
but cultures are everlasting.
Isms arrive, isms wither,
but human spirit is evergreen.
You don't have to support
the state to love the culture.
You may be deemed enemy of the state,
and still be a hero of the culture.”
Source: Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World
“States should have the right to enact laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.”
“States should not balance their budgets on the backs of students.”
“States should pass laws making it illegal to own or trade wild animals; the phony 'educational' permits that many private owners have used to skirt those laws should be eliminated.”
“States, sports leagues, data companies, media outlets, and others are all trying to get their hand in the sports betting cookie jar, and the cookies only come from one place: gamblers’ wallets.”
Source: Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
“States strong enough to do good are but few.
Their number would seem limited to three.”
Source: Selected poems
“States that are built on a religious foundation limit their own people in a circle of faith and fear.”
Source: 1000 Lashes: Because I Say What I Think
“States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them”
Source: The Portable Machiavelli
“States vote to take away my marriage rights, and even though I don't want to get married, it tends to hurt my feelings. I guess what bugs me is that it was put to a vote in the first place. If you don't want to marry a homosexual, then don't. But what gives you the right to weigh in on your neighbor's options? It's like voting whether or not redheads should be allowed to celebrate Christmas.”
Source: Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls
“States were barred from financing their immigration systems with specific taxes on immigrants and transportation companies, leaving the continued existence of these state institutions to the general state fisc or the generosity of private charitable organizations interested in immigrant welfare and integration. The resource strain on states and charitable organizations placed enormous pressure on Congress to enact federal law.”
Source: The New Immigration Federalism
“States were unprepared for the onslaught of lobbying that followed the Murphy decision and were caught flat-footed by an aggressive campaign to set up industry-friendly sports betting systems. Facing the promise of a new source of tax revenue, lawmakers largely went along with sportsbooks’ desires without considering the potential harm that could ensue from gambling arriving onto every cell phone in the state.”
Source: Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
“States will never be happy until
rulers become philosophers or
philosophers become rulers.”
Source: The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle
“States with high and rising tax burdens are more likely to suffer economic decline; those with low and falling tax burdens are more likely to enjoy strong economic growth.”
“States with tremendous oil and natural gas reserves have the most to gain economically from proper regulation.”
“States would be wise to weaken sovereignty in order to protect themselves.”
“States, as great engines, move slowly.”
Source: Works of Francis Bacon: 3
“States, like individuals, who observe their engagements, are respected and trusted: while the reverse is the fate of those who pursue an opposite conduct.”
Source: Reports of the secretary of the Treasury of the United States
“States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay.”
“States, virtually all of them, have a constitutional requirement to operate on a balanced budget.”
“Statesman are suspected of plotting against mankind, rather than consulting their interests, and are esteemed more crafty than learned.”
“Statesman only talk of fate when they have blundered”
Source: Benito Mussolini: a biography
“Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear; Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend.”
“Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.”
“Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.”
“Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay.”
Source: Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son
“Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns.”
“Statesmen are not only liable to give an account of what they say or do in public, but there is a busy inquiry made into their very meals, beds, marriages, and every other sportive or serious action.”
Source: Plutarch's Complete Works
“Statesmen exhibit five key commitments: 1) A commitment to principles above politics; 2) An ability to compromise without abandoning principle; 3) A commitment to truth over spin; 4) A commitment to courage over cowardice; and 5) A commitment, or willingness, to give up power.”
“Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken.”
“Statesmen remember things selectively.”
Source: The Other Wind
“Statesmen should remember that they have been elected to persuade and to lead, and not just to accept as fixed the momentary moods and pernicious prejudices of the public.”
Source: World Disorders: Troubled Peace in the Post-Cold War Era
“Static cackled from the cafeteria speaker. A bored female voice come on. “Victoria Brennan, please report to the headmaster's office. Victoria Brennan to the headmaster's office.”
Classmates glanced our way. Whispers sprang up around me.
“Not good.” Shelton was reaching for his earlobe.
“Tell them you have amnesia,” Hi said. “Or dementia. Pretend you're Joan of Arc.”
“Thanks for the support, guys. If I'm not back for class, look for my body in the harbor.”
Hiram's hand flew up. “I call her iTunes collection. Shelton can have the mutt.”
“Nice.”
Source: Exposure
“Static filled the air, born from a fragile hope.”
Source: Ben Archer and the World Beyond
“Static in my head, the reflected sound of everything, tried to go to where it led, but it didn't lead to anything.”
“Static isn’t silence. It’s a voice jagged with hunger, waiting for someone to hear it.”
Source: Static Eaters
“Static knowledge is useless if not made Kinetic.”
“Static people don’t fall! You fell because you were either climbing, or running. This is a sign that you are on track. Don’t stop where you fall; rise up and do it again!”
Source: Daily Drive 365
“Static people love to compensate for their inability to change themselves by always trying to change the world.”
Source: Healology