"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the state can shield the people from the political, economic and
or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the state to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the state." »Joseph Goebbels
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"Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil in its worst state, an intolerable one." »Thomas Paine
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"Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind." »George F. Gilder
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"As soon as any man says of the affairs of the state What does it matter to me the state may be given up for lost." »Jean Jacques Rousseau
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"As soon as any man says of the affairs of the state "What does it matter to me?" the state may be given up for lost." »Jean Jacques Rousseau
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"A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride." »Clive Staples Lewis
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"The state exists for man, not man for the state. The same may be said of science. These are old phrases, coined by people who saw in human individuality the highest human value. I would hesitate to repeat them, were it not for the ever recurring danger that they may be forgotten, especially in these days of organization and stereotypes." »Albert Einstein
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"Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us." »Charlotte Bronte
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"Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit. In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature, where the weaker individual is not secured against the violence of the stronger and as, in the latter state, even the individuals are prompted, by the uncertainty of their condition, to submit to a government which may protect the weak as well as themselves so, in the former state, will the more powerful factions or parties be gradually induced, by a like motive to wish for a government which will protect all parties, the weaker as well as the more powerful." »Alexander Hamilton
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"Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit. In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature, where the weaker individual is not secured against the violence of the stronger; and as, in the latter state, even the individuals are prompted, by the uncertainty of their condition, to submit to a government which may protect the weak as well as themselves; so, in the former state, will the more powerful factions or parties be gradually induced, by a like motive to wish for a government which will protect all parties, the weaker as well as the more powerful." »Alexander Hamilton
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"We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God." »Edward Irving Koch
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"It citizenship would give to persons of the negro race, who were recognized as citizens in any one state of the Union, the right to enter every other state whenever they pleased, singly or in companies, without pass or passport, andwithout obstruction, to sojourn there as long as they pleased, to go where they pleased at every hour of the day or night without molestation, unless they committed some violation of the law for which a white man would be punished it citizenship would give them the full liberty of speech in public and in private upon all subjects upon which its own citizens might speak to hold public meetings upon political affairs, and to keep and carry arms wherever they went. And all this would be done in the face of the subject race of the same color, both free and slaves, inevitably producing discontent and insubordination among them, and endangering the peace and safety of the state." »Roger B. Taney
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"While the state exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no state." »Lenin
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"Diplomacy: lying in state." »Oliver Hereford
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"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark." »William Shakespeare
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"The people are that part of the state that does now know what it wants." »Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel
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"A man's wife has more power over him than the state has." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law." »Aristotle
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"Happiness is a state of activity." »Aristotle
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"It is wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago." »Dan Quayle
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"To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia." »H. L. Mencken
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"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws." »Tacitus
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"I have learned, in whatever state I am ,therewith to be content." »Epistle of Paul
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"Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature." »Samuel Butler
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"California, the department store state." »Raymond Chandler
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"Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo." »Robert Byrne
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"Age is state of mind not a statement of wrinkles" »The Omani Shed
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"Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves." »Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"The power of love, as the basis of a state, has never been tried." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Maturity is betterment of the existing state." »Lakshmi Narasimman
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