Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism.
I never really understood fashion as a career. For me, it was really a state of mind, more like something that I always had in my life.
That state of mind - of being beside yourself - is wonderful. As you get older, you're just very aware of a sense of an ending. You're grateful for every day.
The corporations are powerful only because we have allowed them to be. In theory, it is we, not they, who mandate the state. But we have neglected our duty of citizenship, and they have taken advantage of our neglect to seize the reins of government.
Financial dependence on the state is the foundation of modern serfdom.
The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor. . . If we have the courage and patience, the energy and skill, to take us voyaging to other planets, then let us use some of these to tidy up and civilize this earth. One world at a time, please.
Existence is only in the present. Mind is never in the present. In fact, the moment you are in the present, there is no mind in you, there is great silence. The whole sky of your inner being is without thoughts, without clouds. I call this the state of no-mind. Only in this state of no-mind do you meet existence. And that meeting is the ultimate ecstasy. Once you have tasted it, you will never bother about the future.
All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.
The meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only the contemplative, witness-like study of objects that brings to us real enjoyment and happiness.
As the leaders and decision-makers of this great state, it is our responsibility to strive for perfection.
The mood state Americans are in, on average, when watching television is mildly depressed.
In much of the world the U. S. is regarded as a leading terrorist state.
The whole student loan thing drives me completely nuts. If it wasn't possible for 18-year-olds to sign themselves up for tens of thousands of dollars in debt in order to pay their college bills, the state governments wouldn't have found it so politically easy to cut taxpayer support for public colleges and universities.
I exist," murmurs someone whose name is Everyone. "I'm young and in love; I am old and I want rest; I work, I prosper, I do good business, I have houses to rent, money in State Securities; I am happy, I have wife and children; I like all these things and I want to go on living, so leave me alone. ". . . There are moments when all this casts a deep chill on the large-minded pioneers of the human race.
My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grimm's fairy tales. I even saw a theater production of 'Tom Thumb' during Advent at the State Theater in Danzig, which my mother took me to see.
Barack Obama is president of a superpower and I'm a citizen of a small state.
Without strong financial roots, our generation is in a constant state of redefinition. This forces us to think outside the box when it comes to making a living. . . which sometimes makes it look like we're a mess, but really we're just creative. And we like weed.
It sometimes seems to me that some of our Western partners do not want Russia to fully recover. They would like Russia to be in a subdued state, and they want Russian resources to be used for the benefit of the U. S. economy.
My heart is in a constant state of thanksgiving.
Not to have an adequate air force in the present state of the world is to compromise the foundations of national freedom and independence.