The idea that other perspectives exist may not be obvious to those who are in an emotional state of mind.

My politics is my religion, my religion is my politics.

Happiness is a state where nothing is missing.

No state is as prepared as they need to be for a pandemic, nor is the federal government.

I got into politics because it looked interesting and I grew to really care about our state.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Or even the state of Florida, where they are prepared to execute children. Umm, well, you hope that at least that there is something there to be claimed.

The preachers and lecturers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves. Why, a free-spoken man, of sound lungs, cannot draw a long breath without causing your rotten institutions to come...

I am a supporter of the state of Israel.

I think every script I read has something that sends me into a state of panic but that usually makes me want to do it.

Hamas was born to destroy. Hamas does not know how to build. I doubt they will be able to build a modern Palestinian state and hope their lies will be exposed to the Palestinian public.

It is generally admitted that the most beautiful qualities of a color are in its transparent state, applied over a white ground with the light shining through the color.

Facing a deteriorating economy and a weakening hold over the populace, the Iraqi state under Saddam Hussein opted to revitalize tribal leaders and conservative practices as a means of stabilizing state power; those conservative practices...

Fear generates anger, and fear generates violence, and those were part of what built the Saudi state.

Using coercion to drive charity is like using kidnapping to create love.

On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.

Why should a city be mandated to do something by the federal government or state government without the money to do it?

The state was made for man, not man for state.

The purpose of the Jewish state is to secure the Jewish future. That is why Israel must always have the ability to defend itself, against any threat.

Beware! Abstain from shedding blood without a valid cause. There is nothing more harmful than this which brings about one’s ruin. The blood that is willfully shed shortens the life of a state. On the...

XXX: State of the Union.

It’s like this,’ began the elder. ‘All these sentences of hard labour in Siberian prisons, and formerly with flogging, too, do not reform anyone and, what’s more, scarcely deter even one criminal, and, far from...

Our goal is to make Maine the healthiest state in the nation and reduce our overall health care costs.

It’s increasingly clear that governments, major corporations, banks, universities and other such bodies view the defense of their secrets as a desperate matter of institutional survival, so much so that the state has gone to...

Interethnic and spiritual accord is our strategic resource, the basis for progress of our society and state.

Nothing’ is a state of matter.

People should not expect the state to protect them from fraudsters. If we do, we get into the habit of neglecting our own powers of intellectual discernment.

[…] in a predatory capitalist economy, state intervention would be an absolute necessity to preserve human existence and to prevent the destruction of the physical environment […].

I think people who are artists, actors, singers, great songwriters, they tend to have a hyper state of emotion where they feel things very, very deeply, probably more deeply than the average person walking down...

Japan rose from the ashes of World War II as a ‘trading state,’ the model for export-led growth. It is not clear that the old export model of growth will be sustainable in a more...

Every intelligent person whose life has been passed in a slaveholding State, and who has carefully observed the character and capacity of the African race, will see that a general and sudden emancipation would be...

Christians – at least Christians in a liberal democracy – have accepted, after Thomas Hobbes, that they must obey the secular rule of law; that there must be a separation of church and state.

Syria is a terrorist state by any definition and is so classified by the State Department. I happen to think Iran is too. Iraq, Iran, Syria, they’re all involved.

There is a large body of abolitionists in Clinton and Clark Counties in this state, and in Wayne County Indiana, that would undoubtedly support such a store, but whether their support would be sufficient, I...

Rather, it is through conciliation and compromise that we are building a fair Iraq, a just state for all its peoples.

The sovereign state has in our times become a lethal danger to human civilization because technical developments enable it to employ an infinite number and variety of means of destruction.

I was so used to going out and winning state championships and playing in the postseason.

The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.

For me, performance is a holy ground. When I perform, I really step into a different state of consciousness.

We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.

North Carolina is home to some of the largest financial institutions in the country, and a vibrant network of community banks. We’re a banking state, and we’re proud of that distinction. But we also understand...

When you meet a head of state, and you say, ‘What is your most precious natural resource?’ they will not say children at first, and then when you say, ‘children,’ they will pretty quickly agree...

I value my ability to keep state secrets.

How many State of the Union addresses do people remember? They don’t resonate that way.

But democracy isn’t a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

When I feed the poor, they call me a saint, but when I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me a communist. Dom Helder Camara – one of the great prophets of Christian...

This idea that you’re a successful tough guy if you evade taxes and deceive the state has got to change.

I think you can really gauge my state of mind by listening to my albums.

The moral test of government is how it treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the...