The state is a social relationship; a certain way of people relating to one another. It can be destroyed by creating new social relationships; ie, by people relating to one another differently.
Look at this limp cravet. And the sad state of those cuffs. I can hardly bring myself to look upon them.
If Scott Brown can win in a state that President Obama won by 26 points, I can win in a district that Obey won by just 20 points against an unknown, underfunded challenger in the Democratic landslide of 2008. It means there is not a single Democrat in the country who is safe.
How can I tell," said the man, "that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and my state of mind?
Give up waiting as a state of mind. When you catch yourself slipping into waiting. . . snap out of it. Come into the present moment. Just be and enjoy being.
By the time I make my way to the border of Mauritania, to the edge of the Sahara, I see no end to being lost. You can spend your entire life simply falling in that direction. It isn't a station you reach but just the general state of going down. Once you make it back, if you make it back, you will stand before your long-lost friends but in some essential way they will no longer know you.
Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own
It may pass for a maxim in State, that the administration cannot be placed in too few hands, nor the legislature in too many.
There is not one state truly alive if it is not as if a cauldron burns and boils in its representative body, and if there is no clash of convictions in it.
Often, we ignore the fact that our spiritual condition and psychological state of mind are highly affected by what is happening to us physically. Sometimes depression is simply the result of exhaustion.
I keep saying this about a mental state, but the more that I am physically active, the more that my mind is clear.
The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
The prison is the state writ small.
The State dominates the Nation because it alone represents it.
Love does not exist, it's like religion, the state wants you to believe in that kind of crap so they can control you, and f**k your head up.
Habit! that skillful but slow arranger, which starts out by letting our spirit suffer for weeks in a temporary state, but that thespirit is after all happy to discover, for without habit and reduced to its own resources, the spirit would be unable to make any lodgings seem habitable.
My own view is that Kant's conception of the duality of the good (morality and happiness, the good of our person and the good of our state or condition) is a distinctively modern view.
Like secondhand smoke, the leakage of emotions can make a bystander an innocent casualty of someone else's toxic state.
I have said many times that Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism.
Accepting federal funding undermines state sovereignty as states become beholden to federal requirements in order to keep the money flowing.
