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• Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.

  Ira Gershwin

  Change, Music, Encouragement

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• Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within.

  Hannah Arendt

  Peace, Mean, Peculiar

  Hannah Arendt (1968). “Totalitarianism: Part Three of The Origins of Totalitarianism”, p.47, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The United States of America is still run by its citizens. The government works for us. Rank imperialism and warmongering are not American traditions or values. We do not need to dominate the world. We want and need to work with other nations. We want to find solutions other than killing people. Not in our name, not with our money, not with our children's blood.

  Molly Ivins

  Running, Peace, Children

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• As the War Office of the United States was established in a time of peace, it is equally reasonable that a Peace Office should be established in a time of War.

  Benjamin Rush

  Time, Peace, War

  Benjamin Rush (1988). “Essays: Literary, Moral and Philosophical”, Union College

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• Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem to characterize our age. If we desire sincerely and passionately the safety, the welfare and the free development of the talents of all men, we shall not be in want of the means to approach such a state.

  Albert Einstein

  Peace, Mean, Men

  "Ideas And Opinions". Book by Albert Einstein, 1954.

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• At bottom, every state regards another as a gang of robbers who will fall upon it as soon as there is an opportunity.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Fall, Opportunity, Politics

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.243, Oxford University Press

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• So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but for the sake of noble actions. Those who contribute most to this kind of association are for that very reason entitled to a larger share in the state than those who, though they may be equal or even superior in free birth and in family, are inferior in the virtue that belongs to a citizen. Similarly they are entitled to a larger share than those who are superior in riches but inferior in virtue.

  Aristotle

  Together, Purpose, Noble

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• A state is an association of similar persons whose aim is the best life possible. What is best is happiness, and to be happy is an active exercise of virtue and a complete employment of it.

  Aristotle

  Exercise, Association, Employment

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• The rule in our society is that while those who kill once make wretched a single person are severely punished, those (heads of state, inventors, manufacturers) who are responsible for the death, mutilation or general wretchedness of thousands or millions are rewarded with fame, riches and prizes... If you are going to rob, rob big; if you're going to kill, kill big.

  Philip Slater

  Politics, Our Society, Riches

  Philip Slater (2016). “The Pursuit of Loneliness: America's Discontent and the Search for a New Democratic Ideal”, p.142, Beacon Press

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• Where every man in a state has a vote, brutal laws are impossible.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Law, Political

  Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.227, Createspace Independent Pub

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I believe we can seize this future together, because we are not as divided as our politics suggests. [...] We are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions. [...] We are and forever will be the United States of America. [...] We will continue our journey forward and remind the world just why it is that we live in the greatest nation on Earth.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Ambition, America

  Obama's victory speech, politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com. November 7th, 2012.

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• When there is no mind, you are in yoga; when there is mind you are not in yoga. So you may do all the postures, but if the mind goes on functioning, if you go on thinking, you are not in yoga. Yoga is the state of no-mind. If you can be without the mind without doing any posture, you have become a perfect yogi. It has happened to many without doing any postures, and it has not happened to many who have been doing postures for many lives.

  Rajneesh

  Wise, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• My personal taxes are 53% of my taxable income. That's 36% on the federal level and 17% for state and local.

  Stephen A. Schwarzman

  Income, Levels, Wealth

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• As we all learned from the sorry experience of state-sanctioned bureaucracies in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, decentralization in education is crucial to both freedom and excellence.

  Jerry Brown

  Sorry, Europe, Excellence

  "Jerry Brown Blasts Teacher Unionization Bill / Charter schools' self-determination at stake, he says" by Rick DelVecchio, www.sfgate.com. May 22, 1999.

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