State Quotes

"To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternatinve service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the state in time of war."
-Albert Einstein

"The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law."
-Aristotle

"A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange...Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship."
-Aristotle

"The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication."
-Aristotle

"The basis of a democratic state is liberty."
-Aristotle

"Happiness is a state of activity."
-Aristotle

"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 a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind."
-George Bernard Shaw

"I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between church and state."
-Thomas Jefferson

"If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny."
-Thomas Jefferson

"Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"There is nothing that gives a man consequence, and renders him fit for command, like a support that renders him independent of everybody but the State he serves."
-George Washington

"The man the state has put in place must have obedient hearing to his least command when it is right, and even when it's not."
-Sophocles

"I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him either."
-Sophocles

"Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort."
-Charles Dickens

"The most painful state of living is remembering the future."
-Soren Kierkegaard

"Every time you state what you want or believe, you're the first to hear it. It's a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don't put a ceiling on yourself."
-Oprah Winfrey

"Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. "
-Mahatma Gandhi

"Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo."
-Robert Byrne

"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group."
-Franklin D. Roosevelt

"What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it."
-Alexander Graham Bell

"Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas."
-Calvin Coolidge

"How can I tell that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensation and my state of mind?"
-Douglas Adams

"A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world."
-John Locke

"Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it."
-Niccolo Machiavelli

"If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved, and the need to judge. Those are the three things the ego is doing all the time. It's very important to be aware of them every time they come up."
-Deepak Chopra

"Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature."
-Samuel Butler