| "Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal." »Albert Einstein |
| "More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else... All our lauded technological progress--our very civilization--is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal." »Albert Einstein |
| "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 |
| "Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil in its worst state, an intolerable one." »Thomas Paine |
| "Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind." »George F. Gilder |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "While the state exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no state." »Lenin |
| "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark." »William Shakespeare |
| "Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life." »Herbert Henry Asquith |
| "The basis of a democratic state is liberty." »Aristotle |
| "The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation." »Pierre Elliott Trudeau |
| "A man's wife has more power over him than the state has." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "The foundation of every state is the education of its youth." »Diogenes |
| "Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo." »Robert Byrne |
| "To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| "Indolence is a delightful but distressing state we must be doing something to be happy." »Mahatma Gandhi |
| "The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver." »Jay Leno |
| "Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature." »Samuel Butler |
| "In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought." »Tiberius |
| "Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes." »Norman Douglas |
| "The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law." »Aristotle |
| "It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one." »Francis Bacon |
| "Broke is a temporary condition, poor is a state of mind." »Sir Richard Francis Burton |
| "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 |
| "Doubt is not a pleasant state of mind, but certainty is absurd." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
