States Quotes - Page 8

• The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and this lie drones on from its mouth: 'I, the State, am the people'.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Government, People

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• You find this curious fact, that the more intense has been the religion of any period and more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the greater has been the cruelty and the worse has been the state of affairs. In the so called age of faith, when men really did believe the Christian religion in all its completeness, there was the Inquisition, with its tortures; there were millions of unfortunate women burnt as witches; and there was every kind of cruelty practised upon all sorts of people in the name of religion.

  Bertrand Russell

  Christian, Believe, Men

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• ..the United States is subject to the scrutiny of a candid world ... what the United States does, for good or for ill, continues to be watched by the international community, in particular by organizations concerned with the advancement of the rule of law and respect for human dignity.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Respect, Law, Organization

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• We are going forward with the idea of a multicultural , a multinational state, trying to live in unity, at the same time respecting our diversity...But we need to all come together so we can live united.

  Evo Morales

  Respect, Ideas, Diversity

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• Singlehood is not longer a state to be overcome as soon as possible. It has its own rewards. Marriage is not the gateway to adulthood anymore. For most people it's the dessert - desirable, but no longer the main course.

  Stephanie Coontz

  Single, People, Overcoming

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• Our society is only as healthy as our most vulnerable citizens. It is unconscionable that the weakest links in our country are our hungry children. No other Western industrialized nation has widespread hunger within its borders. We really must put an end to hunger in the United States if we are to keep our prosperity and protect the future.

  Linda Gray

  Country, Children, Future

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• A universal renunciation of violence requires the commitment of the whole of society. These are not matters of government but matters of State; not only matters for the authoirities, but for society in its entirety, including civilian, military, and religious bodies. The mobilization which is urgently needed to effect the transition within two or three years from a culture of war to a culture of peace demands co-operation from everyone. In order to change, the world needs everyone.

  Federico Mayor Zaragoza

  Religious, Military, War

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• Society may be formed so as to exist without crime, without poverty, with health greatly improved, with little, if any misery, and with intelligence and happiness increased a hundredfold; and no obstacle whatsoever intervenes at this moment except ignorance to prevent such a state of society from becoming universal.

  Robert Owen

  Health, Ignorance, Adversity

  Robert Owen (1857). “The Life of Robert Owen Written by Himself: With Selections from His Writings and Correspondence”, p.349

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• In peace prepare for war, in war prepare for peace. The art of war is of vital importance to the state. It is matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence under no circumstances can it be neglected.

  Sun Tzu

  Strength, Art, Peace

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• I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Success, Business, Goal

  Letter to Ellen Terry, 28 Aug. 1896

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• Reasoned arguments and suggestions which make allowance for the full difficulties of the state of war that exists may help, and will always be listened to with respect and sympathy.

  Stafford Cripps

  Sympathy, War, May

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• It is probably a pity that every citizen of each state cannot visit all the others, to see the differences, to learn what we have in common, and come back with a richer, fuller understanding of America - in all its beauty, in all its dignity, in all its strength, in support of moral principles.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Travel, Differences, America

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1955”, p.619, Best Books on

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• One of the special beauties of America is that it is the only country in the world where you are not advised to learn the language before entering. Before I ever set out for the United States, I asked a friend if I should study American. His answer was unequivocal. "On no account," he said. "The more English you sound, the more likely you are to be believed."

  Quentin Crisp

  Country, Travel, America

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• Our interconnectedness on the planet is the dominating truth of the 21st century. One stark result is that the world's poor live, and especially die, with the awareness that the United States is doing little to mobilise the weapons of mass salvation that could offer them survival, dignity and eventually the escape from poverty.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Truth, Survival, United States

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• 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.

  James A. Baldwin

  Art, Creativity, Being Alone

  "The Creative Process" by James A. Baldwin originally published in The National Culture Center's "Creative America", 1962, and later published in James A. Baldwin "The Price of the Ticket", 1985.

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• What changed in the United States with Hurricane Katrina was a feeling that we have entered a period of consequences.

  Al Gore

  Change, Feelings, Environmental

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• I've been seeing the change. It's been steady. It's been more controlled than people think. And my own belief is that China knows it also needs to be part of the world, and that it needs to be able to have trade with Europe and the United States in order to house and feed a billion people. That's really kind of single-mindedly what they see their role as being.

  Jeffrey R. Immelt

  Change, Business, Believe

  Chronicle interview, www.sfgate.com. June 6, 2004.

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• Between capitalist and communist society there lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other. Corresponding to this is also a political transition period in which the state can be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat.

  Karl Marx

  Change, Lying, Communication

  Karl Marx, Lawrence H. Simon (1994). “Marx: Selected Writings”, p.328, Hackett Publishing

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• All things are in a state of flux.

  Heraclitus

  Change, Organization, Flux

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• To achieve your ethereal state, you have to expand your thoughtless awareness.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• You have to rise up to that state of thoughtless awareness where you grow spiritually. If you are not in thoughtless awareness, you cannot grow in your spirituality. So it's very important to see where is your attention. Where are you putting your attention? If the attention could be controlled then things will be all right.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• It is an embarrassment that the United States, the wealthiest nation, has people that go hungry.

  Craig T. Nelson

  People, United States, Wealth

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• The preamble to the Constitution states: "We, the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquillity, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare..." It doesn't say "guarantee the general welfare." And it certainly doesn't say "give welfare benefits to all the people in the country who aren't doing so well even if the reason they aren't doing so well is because they're sitting on their butts in front of the TV".

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Country, Order, Perfect

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• Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freemen with votes in their hands are left without education. Justice to them, the welfare of the States in which they live, the safety of the whole Republic, the dignity of the elective franchise, - all alike demand that the still remaining bonds of ignorance shall be unloosed and broken, and the minds as well as the bodies of the emancipated go free.

  Robert Charles Winthrop

  Ignorance, Hands, Justice

  Robert Charles Winthrop (1886). “Addresses and Speeches on Various Occasions: 1878-1886”

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• My practise as a scientist is atheistic. That is to say, when I set up an experiment I assume that no god, angel, or devil is going to interfere with its course; and this assumption has been justified by such success as I have achieved in my professional career. I should therefore be intellectually dishonest if I were not also atheistic in the affairs of the world. And I should be a coward if I did not state my theoretical views in public.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Success, Angel, Views

  Preface to "Fact and Faith", 1934.

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