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  • Max Stirner The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.
    Max Stirner
    German philosopher (ps. by Johan C. Schmidt) (1806 - 1856)
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  • Benjamin Graham The State can always afford to finance what its citizens can soundly produce.
    Storage and Stability Part I, Ch. III, The Problem of Conserving Surplus
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Barbara Bush The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Ann Macbeth The State Film Authority will be there for film as industry only, as is the case in all the other states, except Victoria. Victoria is moving more now into supporting non-commercial films.
    Ann Macbeth
    British embroiderer, designer, teacher and author (1875 - 1948)
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  • Jean Dubuffet The State has but one face for me: that of the police. To my eyes, all of the State's ministries have this single face, and I cannot imagine the ministry of culture other than as the police of culture, with its prefect and commissioners.
    Jean Dubuffet
    French artist (1901 - 1985)
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  • Emma Goldman The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Oscar Wilde The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The State must follow, and not lead, the character and progress of the citizen.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz The state of crisis is the real war; the equilibrium is nothing but its reflex.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Baltasar Garzon The state of law is equal for all people. It cannot depend on electoral politics.
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  • James I of England The state of monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth: for kings are not only God's Lieutenants upon earth, and sit upon God's throne, but even by God himself they are called Gods.
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  • Oliver Cromwell The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.
    Oliver Cromwell
    Parliamentarian General, Lord Protector of England (1599 - 1658)
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  • V. S. Pritchett The State, that craving rookery of committees and subcommittees.
    V. S. Pritchett
    British writer and literary critic (1900 - 1997)
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  • Eric Hoffer The superficiality of the American is the result of his hustling. It needs leisure to think things out; it needs leisure to mature. People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Afif Safieh The tormenting dilemma of the Middle East is this: either we have one people too many, or one state too few.
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  • Benjamin Tucker The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one or the other of them are, respectively, State Socialism and Anarchism.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Noam Chomsky The United States is a violent military state. It's been involved in military action all over the place.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Aaron Copland The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'
    Aaron Copland
    American composer and writer (1900 - 1990)
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  • Adolf Loos The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone. The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort.
    Adolf Loos
    Austrian and Czechoslovak architect (1870 - 1933)
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  • Paul Klee The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.
    Paul Klee
    Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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