Top 1200 State Governments Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

It is everyone's right to achieve this state of ones evolution and everything necessary is already inbuilt. But as I respect your freedom, you have to have the desire to achieve this state, it cannot be forced upon you!

I think we have to understand that the nation-state became powerful in the wake of the French Revolution, whereas the nation-state has become powerless in light of globalization.

Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.

I want to be a serial entrepreneur: Incubate an idea, get it to a good state, and make that an enabler to get to the next state. It's every researcher's fantasy.

To get that word, male, out of the Constitution, cost the women of this country fifty-two years of pauseless campaign; 56 state referendum campaigns; 480 legislative campaigns to get state suffrage amendments submitted; 47 state constitutional convention campaigns; 277 state party convention campaigns; 30 national party convention campaigns to get suffrage planks in the party platforms; 19 campaigns with 19 successive Congresses to get the federal amendment submitted, and the final ratification campaign.

The use of the word royalty, as fee to a proprietor for the exploitation of a work or property, derives from the period when the sovereign assumed title to all wealth of the realm. It was the struggle for freedom from these encroachments of the state that chiefly marked the Nineteenth Century, and established everywhere constitutional regimes of limited authority. In the Twentieth Century, however, we have witnessed a gradual and almost unrestricted movement back to state authoritarianism, primarily in the economic sphere, accompanied by the spread of state monopoly and intervention.

There was a Greek philosopher who taught that, of all things, not to have been born is the sweetest state. But I believe sleep is the sweetest state. You're dead, yet alive. There's no sensation so exquisite.

Islamic state means a state based on justice and democracy and structured upon Islamic rules and laws.

Companies, communities and governments have to be innovators, and they cannot do it alone.

Parents, not governments, should decide what is best for their family.

There are men running governments who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches.

I cannot recognise either the Palestinian state or the Israeli state. The Palestinians are idiots and the Israelis are idiots.

It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes.

Being nice to governments doesn't work, they are such lying bastards.

The rights of the individual should be the primary object of all governments.

Texas is not a state - it's a state of mind.

I think we are destined to live with coalition governments in the future.

We cannot have foreign governments interceding in our elections.

Killing is always wrong, even governments are not exceptions.

We're going to restructure the state government into a government that's responsive to the needs of New York state taxpayers.

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.

Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.

The measure of the state's success is that the word anarchy frightens people, while the word state does not.

The ideas that we have about self are an aggregate within a state of mind, and they chain us to a state of mind.

Man is not made for the State but the State for man and it derives its just powers only from the consent of the governed.

I don't know that human beings were meant to mate for life or be monogamous. But, for me, the aspect of marriage that is troubling is that it's a contract that is governed by the state, and I don't want the state to have control over my personal affairs.

One of the greatest challenges in collecting child support is that deadbeat dads move from job to job and state to state. it's hard to keep track of them.

The fascist state is the corporate state.

A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.

Governments keep their promises only when they are forced, or when it is to their advantage to do so.

The state, the state apparatus, is not an abstraction.

If we simply follow the rules that a state imposes upon us when that state is acting contrary to the public interest, we're not actually improving anything. We're not changing anything.

How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think.

If we are recognizing the Bible as a sacred text, then we are violating the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Tennessee by designating it as the official state book.

The internal call is when the Spirit of God accompanies the outward administration of the Word to call a man from ignorance to knowledge, and a state of nature to a state of grace.

Governments must conform to the nature of the men governed.

Leadership is creating a state of mind in others. The difference between being a leader and manager, all due respect to managers, is that leaders have to create states of mind. But a leader, first of all, has to have a clear state of mind, which is usually her own vision, which energizes her, motivates others, and then creates that state of mind in others.

Foreign aid breeds kleptocracies, or governments of thieves.

Everyone is an abused child, if you think about what governments do.

I hope that we increasingly shift power to local governments.

I cannot be any clearer, minority governments don't work.

Quite often governments are one way and the people are another.

Foreign governments want to lie to the American people.

Education is a task for both parents and state. The state, parents, and children all have interests that must be protected.

What is always left out of descriptions of the psychedelic state, the deep psychedelic state, is how weird it is.

Meditation makes you innocent, it makes you childlike. In that state, miracles are possible. That state is pure magic.

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

The Bible is the supreme law that all governments must obey.

Now you have to be a collaborator and you have to bring on governments and convince people.

In Missouri, it's a 50/50 state, so I'm kind of used to half the state being mad at me.

Why do economists fall in love with authoritarian governments?

I contend that the strongest of all governments is that which is most free.

Alabama's Right to Work law has been a huge benefit for our state and for the people, helping to attract many businesses in our state.

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.

When governments become weak, troubles are certain to erupt.

There is no doubt that sorrow brings one down in the world. The aristocratic privilege of silence belongs, you soon find out, to only the happy state- or, at least, to the state when pain keeps within bounds.

If we assume there is no maximum possible entropy for the universe, then any state can be a state of low entropy.

Fundamentalist governments and organizations endanger stability in the world.

Well, I mean, Congress did originally set the formula for the state grants, and they guaranteed every state a minimum formula. So that was a congressional decision.

In Southern Europe, we have, of course, very bad governments.