[ state Quotes ]



Showing search results for State Quotes - 134 quotes about state - Dictionary Quotes
134 quotes

No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
Authority
Hans Reichenbach

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 691 votes

The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
Government
James Reston

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 625 votes

Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.
Secrets
Cardinal De Richelieu

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 662 votes

Our goal, simply stated, is to be the best.
Excellence
James H. Robinson

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 533 votes

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.
Life and Living
Carl Rogers

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 652 votes

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
Virtue
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 464 votes

Europe and the U.K. are yesterday's world. Tomorrow is in the United States.
New World
R. W. ''Tiny'' Rowland

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 637 votes

By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
Unity
Sallust

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 670 votes

Where there are two Phd's in a developing country, one is head of state and the other is in exile.
Experts
Lord Samuel

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 601 votes

Whatever has overstepped its due bounds is always in a state of instability.
Security
Seneca

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 609 votes

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, The lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
War
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 1139 votes

In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
Lies and Lying
Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 558 votes

Texas is not a state -- it's a state of mind.
Mind
John Steinbeck

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 519 votes

A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
Politicians and Politics
Adlai E. Stevenson

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 706 votes

A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
Firmness
Adlai E. Stevenson

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 680 votes

I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.
Existence
Sting

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 669 votes

The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.
Law and Lawyers
Max Stirner

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 515 votes

In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
Law and Lawyers
Publius Cornelius Tacitus

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 711 votes

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.
Law and Lawyers
Publius Cornelius Tacitus

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 498 votes

Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Dylan Thomas

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 522 votes

Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.
Peace
James Thomson

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 613 votes

He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.
Leisure
Henry David Thoreau

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 669 votes

The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.
Words
Henry David Thoreau

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 676 votes

Being broke is a temporary situation. Being poor is a state of mind.
Poverty and The Poor
Mike Todd

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 668 votes

The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.
Uncategorised
Pierre Elliott Trudeau

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 489 votes
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun