1.
We do not have to invade the United States, we will destroy you from within.
Nikita Khrushchev
We do not have to attack the United States, we will obliterate you internally.
2.
Allah will support the just state even if it is led by unbelievers, but Allah will not support the oppressive state even if it is led by believers
Ibn Taymiyyah
God will uphold the righteous nation regardless of its leadership's faith, but He will not uphold the tyrannical regime no matter who is in charge.
3.
Let me control the textbooks, and I will control the state.
Adolf Hitler
Let me dictate the educational materials, and I will shape the government.
4.
To be modern is not a fashion, it is a state. It is necessary to understand history, and he who understands history knows how to find continuity between that which was, that which is, and that which will be.
Le Corbusier
5.
Love is a state of temporary psychosis.
Sigmund Freud
Fervent Infatuation
6.
The definition of fascism is The marriage of corporation and state.
Unknown
The unification of business and government.
7.
You don't start a revolution by fighting the state but by presenting the solutions.
Le Corbusier
'You don't kindle a revolution by antagonizing the government but by supplying the solutions.'
8.
The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
Anton Chekhov
The duty of an author is not to resolve the issue but to accurately depict the issue.
9.
The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.
Soren Kierkegaard
The most excruciating emotion is ruminating on the future that will never be.
10.
The older one gets, the more one feels that the present must be enjoyed; it is a precious gift, comparable to a state of grace
Marie Curie
The more years one accumulates, the more imperative it becomes to relish the current moment; it is a precious blessing, akin to a divine state.
11.
I am the State.
[Fr., L'etat c'est moi.]
Louis XIV
I am the Sovereign.
12.
The interests of the state must come first.
Louis XVI of France
The welfare of the nation must take precedence.
13.
We have now educated ourselves into a state of complete imbecility.
Malcolm Muggeridge
We have now educated ourselves into a state of absolute ineptitude.
14.
In every treaty, insert a clause which can easily be violated, so that the entire agreement can be broken in case the interests of the State make it expedient to do so.
Louis XIV
Include in each treaty a proviso which can be conveniently disregarded, allowing for the dissolution of the pact when it serves the nation's best interests.
15.
Happiness is a state of mind.
Walt Disney
Contentment
16.
The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.
Kenneth Kaunda
The force that founds a nation is coercion; the power that sustains it is coercion; the energy that topples it is coercion.
17.
The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all is the monopoly of education.
Frederic Bastiat
The highest priority is not for the government to dictate instruction, but rather to grant permission for education. All monopolies are abhorrent, yet none more so than the monopoly of knowledge.
18.
Every State is a dictatorship.
Antonio Gramsci
Every nation is an autocracy.
19.
A Homeland, A State, A Leader.
Francisco Franco
'A Nation, A Province, An Authority.'
20.
A change of circumstance happens as a result of a change in your state of consciousness.
Neville Goddard
A shift in situation emerges from a modification of your mindset.
21.
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
William James
22.
I have great confidence in you to do what you think best. State your opinion and always act with courage.
Catherine McAuley
23.
We regard it as our duty to declare that Jewish Jerusalem is an organic and inseparable part of the State of Israel, as it is an inseparable part of the history of Israel, of the faith of Israel.
David Ben-Gurion
24.
The Jews took Israel from the Arabs after the Arabs had lived there for a thousand years. Israel, like South Africa, is an apartheid state.
Hendrik Verwoerd
25.
The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.
Friedrich Engels
26.
If whole branches of Jews must be destroyed, it is worth it, as long as a Jewish state in Palestine is created.
Theodor Herzl
27.
Africa can and will only advance through African integration, which can be realized through the Federal United States of Africa
Cheikh Anta Diop
28.
The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
Earl Warren
29.
You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
Milton Friedman
31.
States have always needed intellectuals to con the public into believing that its rule is wise, good, and inevitable
Murray Rothbard
33.
Fear is a force that sharpens your senses. Being afraid is a state of paralysis in which you can't do anything.
Marcus Luttrell
34.
Your state of mind is everything.
Bruce Lee
35.
I cannot recognise either the Palestinian state or the Israeli state. The Palestinians are idiots and the Israelis are idiots.
Muammar al-Gaddafi
36.
The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
William Blake
38.
Whenever and wherever you put yourself in touch with GOD, that is the state of meditation.
Sathya Sai Baba
39.
All in all, Vermont is a jewel state, small but precious.
Pearl S. Buck
40.
If I be not in a state of grace, I pray God place me in it; if I be in it, I pray God keep me so.
Joan of Arc
41.
There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.
Gilles Deleuze
42.
A state is better governed which has few laws,
and those laws strictly observed.
Rene Descartes
43.
Love is a state that I would like to exist in continuously.
Nick Cave
44.
There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
45.
Men only act in a state of necessity and usually only recognise necessity in a situation of crisis.
Jean Monnet
47.
If taxes are laid upon us without our having a legal representation where they are laid, we are reduced from the character of free subjects to the state of tributary slaves.
Samuel Adams
48.
The state is the servant of the citizen, and not his master.
John F. Kennedy
49.
The state must be the first to be organized and totally committed to serving the interests of the people.
Samora Machel
50.
The state would rather give me an uzi than a microphone.
Mumia Abu-Jamal