Quotes
Quotes about State
If you reject family - which a mother holds together - as well as the ties of Church and State, is there anything left for you?
Literature clearly has something to do with not forcing the reader into a state of mind (or physicality) which places the writer in a position of advantage over him.
On atheism: I see it as a divinely bestowed state of other emptiness, a sort of dark night of the soul, into which the ultimate effulgence will rush unaware, and the unfaith become faith
Human beings are defined by freedom of choice. Once you have them doing what theyre told is good just because theyre going to get a lump of sugar instead of a kick up the ahss (?!) then ethnics no longer exists. The state could tell them it was good to go off and mug and rape and kill some other nation.
The trouble with even sincere and sensible statements is that they can deal only in either tautology or lies
I am sure the State secretly dreams of burning books
The scientific approach to life is not really appropriate to states of visceral anguish
..the people of Tudor England, like the modern Irish, were great talkers. One imagines their speech as rapid, bubbling, both earthily exact and carelessly malapropistic. It was perhaps a McLuhanesque medium, itself its own message and it exhibited the essential function of language - to maintain social contact in the dark.... Speech, when you come to think of it, is not a very exact medium: it is full of stumblings and apologies for not finding the right word; it has to be helped out with animal grunts and the gestures which, one is convinced, represent man's primal mode of communication. Take speech as a flickering auditory candle, and the mere act of maintaining its light becomes enough. Tales, gossip, riddles, word-play pass the time in the dark, and out of these - not out of the need to recount facts or state a case - springs literature.
Nature's statements are simple enough: all change is circular
Love man the social animal, but hate, on principle, the engine called the State
I envy any man who can carve marble. To climb it is for me, in my present state, work enough
We must not confuse the future with eternity. Eternity is not an endlessly prolonged future, it is a timeless state that wraps itself about time and, in odd places perceived chiefly by the holy, nibbles at it
Notions of wickedness are hypocritical emanations from the parents, the elders, the state
You have no right to assume that your present present present represents a permanent and unchangeable state
This statement is in no way to be construed as a disclaimer.
Anyone who makes an absolute statement is a fool.
This statement is in no way to be construed as a disclaimer.
This statement is in no way to be construed as a disclaimer.
It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.
I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
My friends are my estate.
Absurdity, n. a statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.
I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money.
