Quotes and Sayings About States
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Even if you forget that´s not the same as if it never happened. The slate is not entirely wiped clean; you can´t reclaim the person you were beforehand; your state of innocence is not there to be retrieved.
-- A.S.A. Harrison -
Is there a meaning to music? Yes. Can you state in so many words what the meaning is? No.
-- Aaron Copland -
The official Hamas charter calls for the murder of Jews and destruction of the Jewish state.
-- Aaron Klein -
Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace.
-- Abbe Pierre -
Secession withdraws the State out of the reach of the usurped powers
-- Abel P. Upshur -
They who pray not, know nothing of God, and know nothing of the state of their own souls.
-- Adam Clarke -
A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers.
-- Adam Weishaupt -
The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Gold is not necessary. I have no interest in gold. We'll build a solid state, without an ounce of gold behind it. Anyone who sells above the set prices, let him be marched off to a concentration. That's the bastion of money.
-- Adolf Hitler -
It is not the State that orders us; but it is we who order the State!
-- Adolf Hitler -
Let me control the textbooks, and I will control the state.
-- Adolf Hitler -
In the actual state of social relationships, the forms ("formes", Fr.) of politeness are necessary as a subsitute to benevolence.
-- African Spir -
Our critique of Israel has to be about the state, not culture or religion, but the state of Israel
-- Aja Monet -
It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state.
-- Alan Dershowitz -
Being a Scotsman, I am naturally opposed to water in its undiluted state.
-- Alastair Mackenzie -
In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States.
-- Albert Bushnell Hart -
The state was made for man, not man for state.
-- Albert Einstein -
In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you.
-- Albert J. Nock -
The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.
-- Albert J. Nock -
As Dr. Sigmund Freud has observed, it cannot even be said that the State has ever shown any disposition to suppress crime, but only to safeguard its own monopoly of crime.
-- Albert J. Nock -
When a beggar asks us for a quarter, our instinct is to say that the State has already confiscated our quarter for his benefit, and he should go to the State about it.
-- Albert J. Nock -
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.
-- Albert J. Nock -
In every literate society, learning to read is something of an initiation, a ritualized passage out of a state of dependency and rudimentary communication.
-- Alberto Manguel -
If we live in a state of constant fear, can we remain human?
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
The attributes of sovereignty are now enjoyed by every state in the Union.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
This [a state militia system] appears to me the only substitute that can be devised for a standing army, and the best possible security against it, if it should exist.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.
-- Alexander Pope -
He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that.
-- Alexander Pope -
Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.
-- Alexander Pope
