2813 State Quotes for You to Enjoy

The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion. John Ruskin

First Duty Every State See Born Shall Fed Attains Well Till Educated Years Discretion Child Clothed Therein

To be a human being is to be in a state of tension between your appetites and your dreams, and the social realities around you and your obligations to your fellow man. John Updike

Dreams You Man Obligations Human Being State Tension Between Fellow Fellow Man Around Human Being Realities Social Your Your Dreams Appetites

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

Law Crime Own State Individual Calls Violence

Healthcare is the cornerstone of the socialist state. It is the crown jewel of the welfare state. Monica Crowley

Welfare Cornerstone State Crown Welfare State Healthcare Socialist Jewel

We have to serve God or guarantee the safety of the Jews. And this can be done by them accepting the Palestinians, recognizing the Palestinians, accepting that fact that they should live with the Palestinians in one state, together. Unfortunately, the Jews are fighting or struggling against their own friend - the Arabs. Muammar al-Gaddafi

Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be - protect themselves. That's why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them. Noam Chomsky

Government You Enemy Own State Secret Citizens Laws Main Supposed Know Protect Doing Governments Regard Them Themselves Why

A life-threatening illness or two certainly gives you an awareness of your own mortality. It heightens your sense of gratitude for things that previously, if you've not taken them for granted, you perhaps never appreciated how precious they were. That's almost a platitude, but one has to state the obvious. Norman Foster

Gratitude You Own Sense Awareness State Gives Life-Threatening Never Taken Mortality Almost Perhaps Obvious How Were Precious Them Heightens Your Granted Certainly Illness Things Two Appreciated

I think I'm constantly in a state of adjustment. Patti Smith

Think State Adjustment Constantly

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class. Plato

Happiness Class Construction State Our Object Greatest Greatest Happiness Any Whole

I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement. Robert Mugabe

All initiation of force is a violation of someone else's rights, whether initiated by an individual or the state, for the benefit of an individual or group of individuals, even if it's supposed to be for the benefit of another individual or group of individuals. Ron Paul

Rights Group Else State Benefit Someone Individual Individuals Supposed Force Another Whether Even Initiated Initiation Violation

The first amendment makes it clear that we are free to practice religion without government interference. The Constitution also establishes the separation of church and state so that the laws we live by our never guided by religious zeal. Roxane Gay

Government Religion Constitution Church Free First Practice Separation Live State Our Guided Church And State Religious Laws Never Clear First Amendment Also Without Makes Amendment Interference Zeal

Remember that before 'Roe v. Wade' was decided, there were four states that allowed abortion in the first trimester if that's what the woman sought: New York, Hawaii, California, Alaska. Other states were shifting. And people were fighting over this issue in state legislatures. Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Woman People Abortion Remember First Shifting Before Fighting Other State States Hawaii Allowed Over New California Sought Wade Issue Were Roe York New York Decided Alaska Four

Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation. Samuel Richardson

Friendship Time Happy Marriage Cares State Our Pleasures Mutual Dividing Highest Participation Same Same Time Them Doubles

You almost have to create situations in order to write about them, so I live in a constant state of self-imposed poverty. I don't want to live any other way. Tom Waits

You Poverty Live Other State Way Constant About Write Almost Any Situations Any Other Way Order Want Them Create

Every cook has to learn how to govern the state. Vladimir Lenin

Every State Learn How Govern Cook

In the Jewish tradition, there is at the same time Jerusalem in the heavens and Jerusalem on the ground. Jerusalem is a living city, but also the heart, the soul of the Jewish people and the state of Israel. Yitzhak Rabin

Time Soul Heart People Living Jewish People State City Also Israel Tradition Same Same Time Heavens Ground Jerusalem Jewish

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