Top 1200 Empire State Building Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

For centuries it was never discovered that education was a function of the State, and the State never attempted to educate. But when modern absolutism arose, it laid claim to everything on behalf of the sovereign power....When the revolutionary theory of government began to prevail, and Church and State found that they were educating for opposite ends and in a contradictory spirit, it became necessary to remove children entirely from the influence of religion.

The strength and vitality of an empire is frequently due to the new aristocracy from the periphery.

I have collected all the writings of the Empire and burnt those which were of no use.

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

Can't' will be the epitaph of the British Empire - unless we wake up in time.

It is also possible within this lifetime to enhance the power of the mind, enabling one to reaccess memories from previous lives. Such recollection tends to be more accessible during meditative experiences in the dream state. Once one has accessed memories of previous lives in the dream state, one gradually recalls them in the waking state.

Though we live in the colony of time, we are ultimately responsible to the empire of eternity.

I get what I desire, it's my empire And yes I call the shots, I am the umpire

Both during the elections and as Prime Minister, I have repeatedly and publicly said that I support the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside the State of Israel.

I do believe ultimately the role is of our state government to ensure every child in this state has a great public school education.

When you own an apartment in NewYork, it's important to know what's happening in your building. Each building runs as its own little municipal town. Much like you might be interested in knowing what is happening in your town because it has a direct effect on the value of your property.

I'm from the building where the wave was invented. Downstairs, under me. Ask Bigavel. Y'all call him Bigavel, Max B. I know him as Charlie Rambo. I'm from the building where the wave was invented, and it was invented after I was born.

The Chancellor, the late Chancellor, was only partly correct, he was obsolete. But so was the State, the entity he worshipped. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of man, that state is obsolete. A case to be filed under 'M' for mankind... in the Twilight Zone.

The original state for all Beings is Love. Out troubles are due only to our covering over thus natural state.

What surprises me most in architecture, as in other techniques, is that a project has one life in its built state but another in its written or drawn state.

England produced Shakespeare, and the British Empire the six-shilling novel.

Given the racist and patriarchal patterns of the state, it is difficult to envision the state as the holder of solutions to the problem of violence against women of color. However, as the anti-violence movement has been institutionalized and professionalized, the state plays an increasingly dominant role in how we conceptualize and create strategies to minimize violence against women.

A state may launch a pre-emptive strike if it has very good reason for thinking that another state is preparing for war.

To be here recovers from a state of soul, from a state of mind. I have the memory of the heart. I know what I received. I must have the will to give back to others.

The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace.

The ultimate goal is two states for two people: Israel as a Jewish state and the homeland for the Jewish people and the State of Palestine as the homeland for the Palestinian people - each state in joined self-determination, mutual recognition, and peace.

It is not differences of opinion; it is geographical lines, rivers, and mountains which divide State from State, and make different nations of mankind.

Silencing the U.S. State Department, putting a friend of Vladimir Putin`s in charge at the U.S. State Department, who stands by quietly while the State Department gets hollowed out, gets gutted, that`s a dream for the Russian government, right? That`s a dream for Putin.

A state of apostasy is worse than a state of ignorance.

With men, the state of nature is not a state of peace, but war.

If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State.

The Business Profits Tax, which is imposed on in-state businesses, we need to impose the same thing on out-of-state businesses, because the way the Business Profits Tax is calculated, it is highly dependent on how much sales and profits are generated in-state.

With the fall of the empire, Art, Philosophy and decent drains all vanished from the West.

There can never be a single, satisfactory comprehensive account of the 'history of the British empire.'

As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost.

Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.

An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of Democracy

It's not about rugby, it's about young men. It's not about building a championship team, it's about building championship boys. Boys who will be forever strong.

You really struggle to be a successful empire if you are also the world's biggest debtor.

So what if America loses its empire? We never should have had one in the first place.

Setting the state budget is one of the most important tasks we undertake at the state Capitol - because after all, it's the people's money - not the government's.

There are major benefits to building a game once and improving it over a long period of time based on user feedback and behavior. It's kind of depressing to have to build a game once, take all the user feedback, and then spend the next 3 years building another game.

We are afraid of ourselves and our own unconscious minds. When we are building something that reflects us, it's the one thing we're all afraid to face. We're afraid to face ourselves. Building machines that mirror our consciousness is a very frightening proposition because we have seen how evil people can be.

It is righteous to receive state subsidies to make films that criticise the state - I want Japanese people to accept such European values.

When you think of power, you think the state has power. When you look at it in terms of revolution, in terms of the state, you think of it in terms of Russia, the Soviet Union, and how those who struggled for power actually became victims of the state, prisoners of the state, and how that led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union. We have to think of revolution much more in terms of transitions from one epoch to another. Talk about Paleolithic and Neolithic.

The State is the absolute reality and the individual himself has objective existence, truth and morality only in his capacity as a member of the State.

I am calling on everyone in this state to put the chaos and the division of the recall behind us and do what's right for this great state of California.

The patronage state is an arrogant state. It assumes it can spend your money better than you do. Yet it expects you to work for it in the first place.

State problems should involve state solutions.

The state of our state needs serious attention.

The state of the Union largely depends on the state of the unions.

The trouble with Freud is that he never played the Glasgow Empire Saturday night.

When you think of power, you think the state has power. When you look at it in terms of revolution, in terms of the state, you think of it in terms of Russia, the Soviet Union, and how those who struggled for power actually became victims of the state, prisoners of the state, and how that led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union. We have to think of revolution much more in terms of transitions from one epoch to another.

As the nation-state has monopolized habeas corpus … on balance we have far more people in prison, federal and state, than ever.

If the English had deep-dish pizza they could have kept their empire.

The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.

But the most amazing, almost miraculous news is that the majority of the building is still intact. Due to one of the most astonishingly intelligent and professional pieces of strategy by the fire services, they succeeded in protecting the vast majority of the building, apparently by forming a human wall of firefighters up the west end of the main staircase and containing the fire.

Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.

Rome didn't create an Empire by holding meetings - they did it by killing their enemies.

Once the state is looked upon as the source of rights, rather than their bound protector, freedom becomes conditional on the pleasure of the state.

My favorite definition of success is that it is a state of mind combined with a state of readiness. You can have one and be a flop; if you have both, you'll win every time.

I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.

It is against this concept of the sovereign state, a state isolated by protectionism and militarism, that internationalism must now engage in decisive battle.

Teaching boys to bake cakes? That's no way to maintain an industrial empire.

Of the present state, whatever it be, we feel and are forced to confess the misery; yet when the same state is again at a distance, imagination paints it as desirable.