To concede that there are social problems that cannot be corrected without the state is to give up the entire argument over the future of liberty itself.
There is such a thing as caste, even in the West; but it is comparatively faint; it is conservatism here. It says, forsake not your calling, outrage no institution, use no violence, rend no bonds; the State is thy parent. Its virtue or manhood is wholly filial.
I'm not really interested in music. Music is just a means of creating a magical state.
There is the joy that is one's state of the being and there is the joy that is one's state of mind. The first is permanent and the second is impermanent.
You can ignite the senses and directly alter their state of mind and body through this scent, sparking a subliminal key to attraction.
Nothing is more important to England's arrangements for the World Cup than the state of David Beckham's foot.
Autonomous state actions will regularly take forms that attempt to reinforce the authority, political longevity, and social control of the state.
Most analysts would agree that if all the undocumented immigrants in California were deported in one day, our state would experience a severe economic downturn. This does not even consider the many cultural and spiritual gifts these immigrants bring to our state and nation.
I procrastinate to a point where I'm filled with self-loathing and then I start writing. It's usually a state of self-loathing that gets me going.
When you say 'state' you mean 'national. ' National Socialism. That is what Mussolini and Hitler did. National Socialism. State Capitalism. They've changed the name.
[Photography] is always like a state of grace, like the appearance of something that I hadn't foreseen, that surprises me and stops me. If I only did what I had in mind, there would be no emotion. It would be like keeping one's eyes shut rather than open, like theorizing rather than seeing.
In the period after the Second World War, there were still leaders in Europe who represented weak countries, but possessed a sense of global foreign policy. Nowadays, on the other hand, there are politicians who represent pretty powerful countries, but whose citizens are not prepared to sacrifice themselves for the state.
This foundational principle - that human beings derive their rights from God, rather than from the State, or any other source - is what made America different.
No citizen enjoys genuine freedom of religious conviction until the state is indifferent to every form of religious outlook from Atheism to Zoroastrianism.
