Top 1200 State Legislatures Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

The suppression of the bourgeois state by the proletarian state is impossible without violent revolution.

It is obvious that taking the country from a state of war to being a lawful state won't be easy.

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own. All the power it has is what society gives it, plus what it confiscates from time to time on one pretext or another, there is no other source from which State power can be drawn. Therefore every assumption of State power, whether by gift or seizure leaves society with so much less power; there is never, nor can be, any strengthening of State power without a corresponding and roughly equivalent depletion of social power.

Once a citizen receives a direct payment from the state, the state has purchased their complicity

The issue isn't gun control but state control -- obtuse and arbitrary state control, state control run amok. ... Forget guns. If Dr. Hudson, Mr. Turnbull, Dr. Gingrich and others end up in jail it won't be for their guns but our liberties.

Law itself is either suspended, or regarded as an instrument that the state may use in the service of constraining and monitoring a given population; the state is not subject to the rule of law, but law can be suspended or deployed tactically and partially to suit the requirements of a state that seeks more and more to allocate sovereign power to its executive and administrative powers. The law is suspended in the name of "sovereignty" of the nation, where "sovereignty" denotes the task of any state to preserve and protect its own territoriality.

We are the only state that does not have a State Film Corporation there to support the commercial industry.

There are few genuine conservatives within the U.S. political system, and it is a sign of the intellectual corruption of the age that the honorable term 'conservatism' can be appropriated to disguise the advocacy of a powerful, lawless, aggressive and violent state, a welfare state for the rich dedicated to a lunatic form of Keynesian economic intervention that enhances state and private power while mortgaging the country's future.

Healthcare is the cornerstone of the socialist state. It is the crown jewel of the welfare state.

The state of presence is the only state in which creative energy is available to you.

A state of affairs which leads to daily vexation is not the right state.

"State," I call it, where they all drink poison, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all lose themselves, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all call their slow suicide-"life."

The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state.

The police represent the authority of the state, the willingness of the state to use violence to assert their will.

Screw State! State's always on the side of the blacks. The hell with them!

Private lives should be no business of the State. The State is bad enough as it is. It cannot educate or medicate or feed the people; it cannot do anything but kill the people. No State like that do we want prying into our private lives.

South Carolina is more of a conservative state than a Republican state.

The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.

Eligible citizens from any State in the Union can serve in the Border Protection Corps of that State

I don't want a one-state solution. But I certainly don't want a zero-state solution, a no-state solution, where Israel's very existence would be jeopardized. And that's what the people of Israel overwhelmingly elected me to do.

I want the world to understand that a Palestinian state means no Israeli state. That's the equation.

It is my considered opinion that the State of Israel is a racist state in the full meaning of this term: In this state people are discriminated against, in the most permanent and legal way and in the most important areas of life, only because of their origin. This racist discrimination began in Zionism and is carried out today mainly in co-operation with the institutions of the Zionist movement.

If a state political organization is founded in part upon a state religion with a dogma based on one or a few 'official' prophets, then shamanism, where every shaman is her or his own prophet, is dangerous to the state. [...] Shamanism, as I said, is not a religion. The spiritual experience usually becomes a religion after politics has entered into it.

Today the separation of church and state in America is used to silence the church. When Christians speak out on issues, the hue and cry from the humanist state and media is that Christians, an all religions, are prohibited from speaking since there is a separation of church and state.

We don't have a state, neither in Gaza nor in the West Bank. Gaza is under siege and the West Bank is occupied. What we have in the Gaza Strip is not a state, but rather a regime of an elected government. A Palestinian state will not be created at this time except in the territories of 1967.

There is state-run television in Russia, which is more loyal to the state, as it always is with state television in any country. We have private owned networks; some of them are oppositional. We have thousands of regional networks that, in their regions, are more watched than the so-called federal stations.

The state operates in a legal vacuum. There exists no contract between the state and its citizens.

The sovereignty of the state as the power that protects the individual and that defines the mutual relationships among the visible spheres, rises high above them by its right to command and compel. But within these spheres ... another authority rules, an authority that descends directly from God apart from the state. This authority the state does not confer but acknowledges.

Love is the state of enlightenment and enlightenment is the state of love. You can't make any separation between them. Enlightenment is the state of no feelings and pure knowledge and so is love.

There's only one professional team in Columbus, the Blue Jackets, but Ohio State is a football state.

I think people who grow up in one particular environment, like the Alabama-Auburn game, they don't ever get the same appreciation for the Ohio State-Michigan game or the Michigan State-Notre Dame game or the Michigan-Michigan State game, the Browns and the Steelers.

God is more concerned with the state of people's hearts than He is with the state of their feelings.

Nudity is a state of fact; lewdity, to coin a phrase, is a state of mind

People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.

As reporters in State College, there was a joke. We used to call Penn State, the Kremlin.

In Egypt, a civil state means a modern nationalist state that is compatible with Islamist provisions.

While praying I passed into a state of entrancement, and in that state I saw the angel and the plates.

Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind.

Residents expect their state leaders to deliver solutions for the people of their state.

If classical music is the state of the art, then the arts are in a sad state.

The state of sleep is a state of freedom in which man is not occupied with the manipulation of the outside world.

I think that the more we, as a state, yield and cede decisions to the federal government, the lesser we'll be for it as a state.

I don't really care how people see me in my natural state, in a comfortable state.

I am challenging Ezer Weizman to accept the democratic state where both of us can live in this democratic state. What confederation? No. One democratic state. He declared one offer, I am declaring the other offer. With two communities.

The idea that the State is capable of solving social problems is now viewed with great skepticism - which foretells a coming change. As soon as skepticism is applied to the State, the State falls, since it fails at everything except increasing its power, and so can only survive on propaganda, which relies on unquestioning faith.

The legislatures will have better means of information. They can discover the danger at a distance; and possessing all the organs of civil power, and the confidence of the people, they can at once adopt a regular plan of opposition, in which they can combine all the resources of the community. They can readily communicate with each other in the different States, and unite their common forces for the protection of their common liberty.

This history of a secular state doesn't exist, no. The state is Christian, and those who are against it can leave.

We cannot keep the Jewish state without being a democratic state.

There is no question that Taiwan is a state in any political science definition of a state.

The state of mind that you are in causes you to act in a certain way. Your actions will bear results. The ultimate result of all karmas and actions is state of mind. You are your state of mind.

It is convenient for Hillary Clinton and Tony Blair to say the rise of the Islamic State has nothing to do with the Iraq War because that takes the culpability off their shoulders. The Islamic State is a product of the Iraq War. It took about a 100 years to build the Iraqi state, and the Americans and the British destroyed it in an afternoon.

When we say "the state," the state is We, it is we, it is the proletariat, it is the advanced guard of the working class.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

The church must be reminded that it is not the master, or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state.

Undocumented immigrants produced $1.58 billion in state revenues, which exceeded the $1.16 billion in state services they received. However, local governments bore the burden of $1.44 billion in uncompensated health care costs and local law enforcement costs not paid for by the state.

Our State Constitution says that 'the people of this State have the sole and exclusive right of governing themselves as a free, sovereign, and independent State.' Working together, we will do everything in our power to prevent other States from violating this principle by imposing arcane sales and use tax obligations on New Hampshire businesses.

My dad played at Ohio State, my dad coached with Woody Hayes. Ohio State's always been Ohio State.

We're an ignorant nation right now. We're not really capable, I do not think, the majority of our people, of making the decisions that have to be made at election time and particularly in the selection of their legislatures and their Congress and the presidency, of course. I don't think we're bright enough to do the job that would preserve our democracy, our republic. I think we're in serious danger.

In art, vitality is the chaotic initial state; beauty is the cosmic final state.

Iran can and should be a responsible state, not the leading state sponsor of terror.