It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.
There is a state that is able to understand the demand in the economy. That state should use prices as an instrument for implementation of this understanding.
Of course, presidents are always blamed or rewarded for the state of the economy.
I would rather die than settle in any European state. But some Arab governments spread such rumours to discredit me.
In my book, the Arab Awakening, I talk about the fact that we have to move from this. All the contemporary ideologies of political Islam have been based on the nation state. The nation state is very problematic but I'm not sure if we have an alternative political model.
I'm lucky to have been raised in the most beautiful place - Amherst, Massachusetts, state of my heart. I'm more patriotic to Massachusetts than to almost any place.
For where's the State beneath the Firmament, That doth excell the Bees for Government?
The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
People compared Garden State to the Graduate, but when was the last time you saw Dustin Hoffman doing what I do?
The state is never so efficient as when it wants money.
We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?
Hope but not enthusiasm is the proper state for the writer.
I think that the existence of Beethoven is remarkable, but I do not bristle at the suggestion that this event had a low probability given the initial state of the universe.
Obama's Democrats have become the part of no. Real cuts to federal budget? No. Entitlement reform? No. Tax reform? No. Breaking the corrupt and fiscally unsustainable symbiosis between public-sector unions and state governments? Hell no.
Enlightenment means that you're never the same. You move and shift as the quiescent state, in a body or out of it. And since the quiescent state is perpetual and endless ecstasy, therefore you are endless.
The modern State exists not to protect our rights but to do us good or make us good - anyway, to do something to us or to make us something. Hence the new name 'leaders' for those who were once 'rulers'. We are less their subjects than their wards, pupils, or domestic animals. There is nothing left of which we can say to them, 'Mind your own business. ' Our whole lives are their business.
There's been a growing effort to kick soda out of the schools. And governors as different as Arnold Schwarzenegger in California and Mike Huckabee in Arkansas have worked hard to get soda and junk food out of their state schools, which is good.
Play is the state of mind that we can use in our creative process to our advantage.
I think hunger is a natural state of being for most people. I mean, hunger is a desire - and you don't only have physical hunger, you have emotional hunger. A lot of my hungers are, in fact, emotional. I think a lot of fat people's hungers are emotional. There are things we very much want, and it can be so difficult to satisfy those hungers. Yet we try. We try so hard.
Capital requires protection, as do the institutions through which it operates. As capital expands its operations, the state that is associated with its protection must develop its capacity for autocratic control. Thus, the "Free World" increasingly resembles a dreary string of heartless police states.