Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
Noam Chomsky

A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
Lord Byron

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.
Douglas MacArthur

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.
Swami Vivekananda

We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.
George W. Bush

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.
John Steinbeck

Faith is a state of openness or trust.
Alan Watts

In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.
Marianne Williamson

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
James A. Baldwin

I guess happiness is not a state you want to be in all the time.
John Belushi

And now, of course this is another thing I didn't count on, that now as the governor of the state of California, I am selling California worldwide. You see that? Selling.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can't run a state.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.
Johnny Depp

When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.
Vladimir Lenin

While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.
Vladimir Lenin

Every cook has to learn how to govern the state.
Vladimir Lenin

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
Albert Camus

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
Albert Camus

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
Calvin Coolidge