Quotes on State

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

It's no small thing for the citizens of your state to say we want you to represent us at the highest level of our government.

When I was drafted by the Colts, Indianapolis was a basketball and a car racing town, but it didn't take long for the Colts to convert the city and state of Indiana into football evangelists.

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Since Israel is a democratic state surrounded by essentially undemocratic states which have sworn her destruction, those interested in democracy everywhere must support Israel's existence.

The state has not only the obligation to stay neutral in matters of religion but also to ensure that freedom of thought and conscience of all individuals is protected.

Crime takes place in every country. But it becomes abuse when the state is unwilling and unable to protect the life and honour of its citizens.

If we live in a perpetual state of outrage, Trump wins. Because when we become depleted and exhausted and sapped of our energy, we're not as resourceful, creative, or effective.

We know so much about planets and the universe and small particles and we do not know anything about the inner state of our own bodies, we do not know about this microcosm we have inside our skin.

The picture of the free market is necessarily one of harmony and mutual benefit; the picture of State intervention is one of caste conflict, coercion, and exploitation.

You are free to go to your mosques or to any other place of worship in this State of Pakistan.

If we want to make this great State of Pakistan happy and prosperous, we should wholly and solely concentrate on the well-being of the people, and especially of the masses and the poor.

Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.

It's one thing to be groped and harassed by passers-by, but when the state gropes you, it gives a green light that you are fair game.

The root of the kingdom is in the state. The root of the state is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its head.

After spending time with police officers on ride-alongs, meeting with politicians on the state and federal level and grass roots organizations fighting for human rights, it's clear that our criminal justice system is still crippling communities of color through mass incarceration.

I've built my homeland, I've even founded my state - in my language.

I am dying, but the state remains.

If art can be at the service of anything, it's about letting us see a state of grace for those people who rarely get to be able to be seen that way.

Albums are like diaries. You go through phases, technically and emotionally, and they reflect the state that you're in at the time.

When the mind is empty, silent, when it is in a state of complete negation - which is not blankness, nor the opposite of being positive, but a totally different state in which all thought has ceased - only then is it possible for that which is unnameable to come into being.