State Quotes

Men who take up arms against the State must expect at any moment to be fired upon. Men who take up arms unlawfully cannot expect that the troops will wait until they are quite ready to begin the conflict.

A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.

Nowadays we are assailed by a chorus of horrid threats. The Nazi Government exudes through every neutral State inside information of the frightful vengeance they are going to wreak upon us, and they also bawl it around the world by their leather-lunged propaganda machine. If words could kill, we should be dead already.

The arts are essen­tial to any com­plete national life. The State owes it to itself to sus­tain and encour­age them. I'll fares the race which fails to salute the arts with the rev­er­ence and delight which are their due.

I owe my advancement entirely to the House of Commons, whose servant I am. In my country as in yours public men are proud to be the servants of the State and would be ashamed to be its masters.

The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you're making a mistake but let you go on with it, that's when it ruins your mind state as an artist.

Songs should follow the state of mind of the actor on screen. It can be grammatically perfect, you know, with all those embellishments that the ustads are good at, only if you're singing for a film on, say, the life of Tansen.

Being blond is definitely a different state of mind. I can't really put my finger on it, but the artifice of being blond has some incredible sort of sexual connotation.

An artist has gotta be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he's at somewhere. You always have to realize that you're constantly in a state of becoming.

Between capitalist and communist society there lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other. Corresponding to this is also a political transition period in which the state can be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat.

The young and the old of widely different races, both with man and animals, express the same state of mind by the same movements.

I think an Agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind. The whole subject [of God] is beyond the scope of man's intellect.

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.

Every neighbouring state is an enemy and the enemy's enemy is a friend.

Every relationship has one or the other motive behind it. Friendship or enmity are not purposeful. Oneness of motive is turned into friendship. While diversity of motive cause enmity. Royal relationships also depend upon one or the other purpose. But such relations are mainly for the welfare of the state.

For the protection of state and welfare of the people, a ruler should collect all types of wealth. By suing devices of sama, dama, danda, bheda, he should increase income of the state, strong administration helps in collecting different type of taxes from the exchequer.

Svanaja includes in itself the whole subject, officials and ministers. If there is something wrong in the conduct of these people, it would be damaging the state. An administrator should strictly deal with it.

Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep.

My opinion is that no state can, in any way lawfully, get out of the Union, without the consent of the others; and that it is the duty of the President, and other government functionaries to run the machine as it is.

The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.