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War then is a relation not between man and man, but between State and State, and individuals are enemies only accidentally, not as men, nor as citizens, but as soldiers; not as members of their country, but as its defenders.
View quotes by Jean Jacques Rousseau
It is now several months since I promised to give you my reasons for preferring the Bible as a schoolbook to all other compositions. Before I state my arguments, I shall assume the five following propositions:
1 . That Christianity is the only true and perfect religion; and that in proportion as mankind adopts its principles and obeys its precepts they will be wise and happy.
2. That a better knowledge of this religion is to be acquired by reading the Bible than in any other way.
3. That the Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.
4. That knowledge is most durable, and religious instruction most useful, when imparted in early life.
5. That the Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any subsequent period of life.
- Benjamin Rush, Essays, pp. 93-113, 'A Defence of the Use of the Bible as a School Book'.
View quotes by Benjamin Rush
A Star for every State, and a State for every Star (Speech on Boston Common)
View quotes by Robert Charles Winthrop
As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State 'What does it matter to me?' the State may be given up for lost.
View quotes by Jean Jacques Rousseau
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
View quotes by Charlotte Bronte
Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say: Sanctity is the state about which theology has nothing to say.
View quotes by W H Auden
We are no longer in a state of growth; we are in a state of excess. We are living in a society of excrescence. The boil is growing out of control, recklessly at cross purposes with itself, its impacts multiplying as the causes disintegrate.
View quotes by Jean Baudrillard
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
View quotes by Thomas Paine
Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.
View quotes by Jesse Jackson
It's a nervous work. The state that you need to write is the state that others are paying large sums to get rid of.
View quotes by Shirley Hazzard
The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.
View quotes by Lyndon Johnson
And the Marshall Plan, to us, meant a general who had turned into a secretary of state, and that the secretary of state saw the necessity of the reconstruction of these European
View quotes by Giovanni Agnelli
I have never met a happy atheist. I believe in separation of church and state, but I think we have gone so far over in the other direction of separating church and state.
View quotes by Dixie Carter
Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture
View quotes by Juan Jimenez
I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.
View quotes by Johnny Depp
The State is not 'abolished', it withers away. (Anti-Duhring)
View quotes by Friedrich Engels
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark (Hamlet, Act 1 Scene 4)
View quotes by William Shakespeare
A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
View quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the State.
View quotes by Albert Camus
Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.
View quotes by Trevor McDonald
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Proverbs:
Happiness Is Not A State Of Mind, But A Manner Of Travelling
A Gentleman Without An Estate Is A Pudding Without Suet
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